Courteney Cox Arquette
Date of birth (location)
15 June 1964,
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Birth name
Courteney Bass Cox
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Nickname
CeCe
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Height
5' 5"
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Mini biography
Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 into an
affluent Southern family. Her father Richard L Cox
(1930-2001) was a business man married to her mother
Courteney. She was the baby of the family with two
older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother
Richard Jnr. She was raised in an exclusive society
town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. Courteney was the archetypal
Daddy's girl, and therefore was understandably devastated
when, in 1974 her parents divorced, and her father
moved to Florida.
She became a rebellious
teen, and did not make things easy for her mother,
and new step-father, New York businessman Hunter Copeland.
Now, she is great friends with both. She attended
Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader,
tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she
received her first taste of modelling. She appeared
in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation,
she left Alabama to study architecture and interior
design at Mount Vernon College. After one year she
dropped out to a pursue a modelling career in New
York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling
Agency. She appeared on the covers of teen magazines
such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus numerous
romance novels. She then moved on to commercials for
Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and
Tampax.
While modelling she
attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition
was to be an actress. In 1984 she landed herself a
small part in one episode of "As The World Turns"
(1956) as a young debutante named Bunny. Her first
big break however, was being cast by Brian De Palma
in the infamous Bruce Springsteen video 'Dancing in
The Dark'. In 1985 she moved to LA to star alongside
Dean Paul Martin in "Misfits of Science"(1985).
It was a flop, but a few years later she was chosen
out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's
girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in "Family
Ties" (1982).
In 1989 Family Ties
ended, and Cox went through a lean spell in her career,
featuring in unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny
(1990) with Michael Caine. Fortunes changed dramatically
for Cox, when in 1994, she starred alongside Jim Carrey
in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994),
and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on
the hugely successful sitcom "Friends" (1994).
It was this part that turned her into an international
superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination.
In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror/comedy
Scream (1996). This movie grossed over $100 million
at the box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her
standout performance as the wickedly bitchy and smug
TV reporter Gale Weathers. She went on to play this
character twice more, as Scream became The Scream
Trilogy. Not only did her involvement in this movie
lead to critical acclaim, but it also led to her meeting
actor husband David Arquette. He played her on screen
love interest Dewey, and life imitated art as the
two fell in love for real. Their wedding took place
in San Francisco, at the historic Grace Cathedral
atop Nob Hill, on June 12th, 1999. Joined by 200 guests,
including Cox's film star friends Liam Neeson and
Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became Mr and
Mrs Arquette.
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Spouse
David Arquette (12 June 1999 - present)
