Courteney Cox

ABOUT COURTENEY COX

American actress who became known as the obsessively neat Monica Geller on Friends , and later received a Golden Globe nomination for her role on ABC's Cougar Town . She played the role of Gale Weathers in the horror movie series Scream and founded Coquette Productions. She played Wendy in the film Bedtime Stories .

After graduating from high school, she briefly studied architecture at Mount Vernon College before deciding to pursue a career in acting.

She appeared on a commercial for Tampax and became the first person to use the term "period" on TV.

She married David Arquette in 1999. They had a daughter named Coco in 2004 and divorced in 2013. Subsequently, she began dating Snow Patrol singer Johnny McDaid , whom she got engaged to in 2014; they briefly split in 2015 and resumed things in April 2016.

She worked with Jennifer Aniston on the highly successful TV sitcom Friends and received a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1996.