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Courteney Cox ‘Hurt’ Being The Only ‘Friends’ Star Not Nominated For An Emmy
When Courteney Cox landed the role of Monica Geller on Friends, she became an instant international sensation.
The native of Alabama saw a dramatic transformation as a result of her sudden rise to fame and wealth.
With the Friends gig, Courteney Cox’s star was already on the ascent. The now-57-year-old was one of the featured performers in a now-iconic music video.
I’m curious as to how Courteney Cox felt about playing Monica. What is she doing at this moment, by the way? Detailed information on her is provided below.
Getting your big break must feel amazing for all artists and actresses, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful career.
Some people get their big break while they’re young, while others have to work hard for a long time and finally succeed when they’re in their 30s or 40s.
Courteney Cox – ‘Friends’ superstar
However, once that major improvement occurs, things tend to continue to improve. Certainly, it was the case with Courteney Cox.
Beginning with Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” music video, the Alabama native made her way to Hollywood.
Her life was irrevocably altered when she was cast as Monica Geller on the groundbreaking television series Friends.
Courteney Cox has been busy with a number of different ventures as of late, and she has also built a beautiful family and welcomed children into it throughout the years.
She has also spoken out strongly against cosmetic procedures like facelifts, a position she has since reversed.
So that’s Courteney “Monica Geller” Cox in a nutshell!
On June 15, 1964, Courteney Cox entered the world. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
Courteney and Richard Lewis Cox’s youngest of four children. She had to endure years of bullying because of her family name when she was little.
“I hated my last name, but then when my dad passed away I thought, ‘I’m going to own this and keep this going,’ because there [was no one else] in the family to keep it alive,” she told Howard Stern.
It was when she was 10 that her parents split up. Courteney Cox moved in with her mother and then her stepfather, but she never got over her parents’ divorce.
Bruce Springsteen’s music video
Cox mentioned the split of her parents as one of her earliest (if not the earliest) memories in an interview with The Guardian. Moreover, she stated, “my mum wasn’t a go-getter so I am thankful that I was able to witness that and be completely the opposite.”
Courteney Cox didn’t grow up thinking she’d be an actress.
She preferred the idea of studying architecture. She first enrolled at Mount Vernon College with the intent of studying architecture, but ultimately decided to leave school and pursue a career in fashion modeling in New York City. At the same time, she was employed by a music management company.
Courteney’s career as a model didn’t last long, but it wasn’t due to her lack of talent. She quickly shifted her focus to the stage.
Courteney Cox’s major break came not in a film or a modeling job when she was 21 years old but in a music video.
Director Brian De Palma was hired to produce and helm the music video for Bruce Springsteen’s top-charting single “Dancing In The Dark.”
Cox got her big break when Brian De Palma cast her in the music video for “Dancing in the Dark.” Filmed on June 29, 1984, at the St. Paul Civic Center in Minnesota, Courteney Cox plays a die-hard Springsteen fan at the concert.
At the end of the clip, “The Boss” reportedly summoned Courteney up on stage, not realizing that Cox was a “fake” fan all along. They got up and danced to the great saxophone solo by the great Clarence Clemons.
First work in television
Courteney Cox wasn’t thrilled with her appearance in the “Dancing in the Dark” video after viewing it again.
“That was not good dancing on my part,” she said. “I would only [recreates] that as a joke.”
Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” video was widely shown on MTV for the first time. As a result, Cox also received a lot of exposure, which boosted her career.
She just had a brief cameo in the video (approximately 20 seconds), but it was enough to gain her some attention. Courteney Cox’s first major role didn’t come until two years after she made her film debut that year in Misfits of Science.
Family Ties made her a household name, and she added many smaller roles in the early ’90s, including a co-starring role opposite Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Courteney Cox had a promising acting career ahead of her, but what happened in 1995 was completely out of her control.
A new program centered on six New York City pals was being developed at the time by Marta Kauffman and David Crane.
Courteney Cox played the slightly neurotic and very competitive Monica Geller on Friends, which was based on a true story.
Kauffman and Crane began developing the show in 1993. It debuted on September 22 and was doomed to success from the get-go.
Courteney Cox – Monica Geller on ‘Friends’
After 10 seasons and 236 episodes, Friends is widely recognized as one of the most successful comedies in television history.
More than 50 million Americans caught the series conclusion. Along with her co-stars Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Lisa Kudrow (Pheobe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler), and David Schwimmer (Ross), Courteney Cox (Monica) became a household name thanks to her performance.
“Let’s face it, she’s adorable and intelligent and really together. She is Monica,” Marta Kauffman said in 1995, referring to Courteney Cox’s responsible and compulsively tidy character Monica on the show.
“I love Monica, because not only is she a grown-up, and that’s good for people to see, but I can bring more of my own personality to her, and I’ve never really been able to do that before,” Cox explained. “She can be goofy and angry and sarcastic and a little bit naughty. People think of her sort as the goody-goody and then prude on the show, but I think she has more sex than any of the others.”
Courteney Cox, who played a renowned role, found surprising parallels to her own life in the role. And just like Monica on Friends, she is a self-proclaimed “neat freak” in her everyday life.
“I don’t use a lint brush or anything, and I don’t iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else. I was doing, I think it was The John Stewart Show and I was picking things off of him and I thought ‘oh my god, I’m just like Monica. This is too scary,’” Cox added.
The wealth and salary of ‘Friends’ star Courteney Cox
Courteney and her co-stars earned huge salaries once Friends became a global sensation. The cast of Friends reportedly made $1 million per episode in the show’s final two seasons.
Even though it’s been 17 years since the series finale, the cast reportedly still makes around $20 million annually from reruns. According to The Independent, they receive 2% of the show’s syndication earnings. According to reports, Netflix spent between $80 million and $100 million to keep the show on the service into 2019.
As of right now, Courteney Cox is worth something in the region of $150 million.
Having more cash on hand is always a plus. Courteney Cox had one thing bothering her at the time they filmed Friends. Except for Courteney Cox, every other cast member was nominated for an Emmy at some point throughout the run of the show.
“Sure. Yeah, it always hurt my feelings,” Cox told Howard Stern. “When every single cast member was nominated but me, it definitely hurt my feelings. I was happy for everybody, and then when it was finally like, ‘Oh, I’m the only one?’ It hurt.”
“I want them to win, I just also want to be part of I’ve never wanted to take anything away from anyone,” she added. “I just sometimes want to be included in certain things. And these girls on the show and the guys, everyone deserved every [nomination].”
Career after ‘Friends’
Courteney Cox may have been overlooked for an Emmy during her time on Friends. But in the future, she would receive recognition for her outstanding work.
Courteney Cox has continued to work in television since her time on Friends ended, most notably as the lead in the sitcom Cougar Town. Cox portrayed Jules Cobb for 102 episodes between 2009 and 2015, and she finally got the credit she deserved.
Cox was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2010 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical for her work on Cougar Town.
A nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for the Friends reunion special in 2021 was the actress’s other moment of glory from the Friends era.
Courteney Cox remains active in the television industry even now. According to IMDB, she plays the lead role in the upcoming TV show Shining Vale, which is now in post-production.
Courteney Cox has matured over the years to become not only a global icon but also a devoted wife and mother.
In 1999, she married actor David Arquette, and in 2004, the pair welcomed their daughter Coco.
Family, husband, dating
However, they divorced in 2013, and Cox has since been linked to Johnny McDaid, a musician and record producer best known as the lead singer of the band Snow Patrol.
The years have brought forth speculation that Courteney Cox had undergone some form of cosmetic enhancement. And in the year 2017, she confirmed it to be correct.
Cox stated her love for fillers in an interview with New Beauty, but she also thought the cosmetic surgery and face boosting industry was a little bit wacky.
“Well, what would end up happening is that you go to a doctor who would say, ‘You look great, but what would help is a little injection here or filler there.’ So you walk out and you don’t look so bad and you think, no one noticed—it’s good,” Courteney Cox said.
“Then somebody tells you about another doctor: ‘This person’s amazing. They do this person who looks so natural.’ You meet them and they say, ‘You should just do this.’ The next thing you know, you’re layered and layered and layered. You have no idea because it’s gradual until you go, ‘Oh sh*t, this doesn’t look right.’ And it’s worse in pictures than in real life. I have one friend who was like, ‘Whoa, no more!’ I thought, I haven’t done anything in six months, I didn’t realize.”
Courteney Cox, however, came to the conclusion that she should always be true to herself. As a result, she decided to flush out her fillers.
Courteney Cox – fillers & no-makeup photo
Cox’s massive fame makes her an ideal role model even if she doesn’t see herself in that light. Seeing her Instagram, where she frequently photographs without makeup, is, thus, really motivating.
“I’m as natural as I can be. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was, I hope I do,” Cox said.
“Things are going to change. Everything’s going to drop. I was trying to make it not drop, but that made me look fake. You need movement in your face, especially if you have thin skin like I do. Those aren’t wrinkles—they’re smile lines. I’ve had to learn to embrace movement and realize that fillers are not my friend.“
The future version of Courteney Cox was previewed in 2022. Many of the Friends star’s fans were shocked to learn that she had used an app to make it look like she was ten years older.
”I probably won’t wear my hair like this …’ Cox wrote in the caption.
Courtney Cox has undergone plastic surgery, much like a lot of other Hollywood stars. Since she “wasn’t pleased” with herself and how she looked, she began utilizing lip fillers in 2019.
She tried self-injection therapy, but it didn’t improve her self-esteem, so she quit.
”I didn’t realize it until one day I kind of stepped back and went, ‘Oh s***. I don’t look like myself,’” she told People.
She’s doing better than ever, thankfully.
”So now I just embrace who I am and getting older with what God gave me, not what I was trying to change,’ she said. I kind of own everything. And the things that I am not as comfortable with myself, they’re things that I continue to work on to grow and change,” Cox said.
And the fact that she posted a photo of her ‘aged’ face without any filters demonstrates that Courtney has accepted her age and her body.
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Aging is a normal aspect of being human, and more famous people should learn to accept it. We need not feel guilty or cover up this fact. I appreciate you demonstrating it, Courtney.
In Friends, Courteney Cox was terrific as Monica Geller. The timeless sitcom continues to be a global phenomenon.
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