Profile: The Girl Next Door

The famous American sitcom ‘FRIENDS’ ended almost seven years ago but characters have continued to live with us. One character that one can never forget is Rachel Green portrayed to perfection by Jennifer Aniston.

(Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt in happier times)

Jennifer Aniston is fondly called as ‘the perfect girl next door’. She has gained critical success for her performances in movies like The Good Girl, Bruce Almighty, Marley & Me and Office Space. She has had her greatest commercial successes with films like The Break-Up, Just Go With It, Derailed, The Switch and Along Came Polly. Her latest movie, Horrible Bosses has opened to rave reviews and is going strong at the box-office. She is probably one of the few actors who have made a successful transition from television to the big screen.

Before FRIENDS, Aniston starred in unsuccessful sitcoms. FRIENDS changed her career graph. Her convincing portrayal earned her multiple nominations and awards. She has won prestigious awards including an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has won the People Choice Award thrice. The sitcom was so popular that for the last two seasons of Friends, she and her co-stars received a salary of whopping one million dollars per episode making them the highest TV actors of all time according to Guinness World Book of Records (2005).

Her characters are real-life inspired. You can always find a little bit of Jennifer in each of her character. When she was going through her own divorce she was filming The Break-Up with Vince Vaughn. The genre Aniston is more comfortable with is comedy and is known for her amazing comic timing. Recently, she went out of her comfort zone and played a sexual predator in black comedy, ‘Horrible Bosses’.

Her personal life has been the topic of discussion in the media for years. America’s sweetheart got married to Brad Pitt in 2005. Finally when Hollywood had started thinking that perfect marriage exists, the couple got divorced in 2005. After her divorce, her love life has been paparazzi’s favourite topic.

Post her divorce; she has been a role model for single women who are going through separation or heart break. She once said, ‘ I never liked Sex and the city, the kind of thing where women feel empowered once they find the man, it’s  just not up my alley. I don’t believe it.’

According to Jennifer, the media has got her love life all wrong. She says, ‘This whole poor-lonely-Jen thing, this idea that I’m unlucky in love. I actually feel I have been unbelievably lucky in love. I am right where I’m supposed to be.’

The actor is rumoured to be dating actor Justin Theroux whom she met while filming her upcoming movie, Wanderlust.

She looked happy and radiant when she visited the show ‘Good Morning America’. Speaking about her personal life she said with her trademark smile, ‘I am extremely lucky and extremely happy.’


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