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Courteney Bass Cox was born June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.Courteney is the fourth child of Richard (born in 1930) and Courteney (*1934) Cox. She has one brother, Richard, two sisters (Virginia respectively Dottie Pickett) and nine half-siblings. Courteney's parents divorced when she was ten. She stayed with her mother who married businessman Hunter Copeland (*1918) in 1976. Her father, a building contractor, moved to Florida where he remarried in 1975.After graduation from the Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham (1982) she began to study architecture/interior decoration at the Mount Vernon College in Washington. In the summer holidays she went to New York where she was subsequently signed by the Ford modeling agency. After some shoots for magazines like Teen Beat and Young Miss, and for romance-novel covers she started working in television commercials for Maybelline, Noxzema and the New York Telephone Company, among other sponsors.Courteney made her acting debut in 1984 on the daytime soap ''As the World Turns'', and later that same year, she was casted by Brian de Palma for Bruce Springsteen's video 'Dancing in the Dark'. After the video which probably opened Courteney some doors for her acting career later, Courteney hosted a music show called 'This Week's Music'. She also worked in 1984 at F.B.I. (Frontier Booking International) a concert booking agency in New York run by Ian Copeland (brother of Stewart of the Police) and a cousins of Cox's. Her first well known work as an actress she did in 1987 when she was cast as the bright, perky girlfriend of Michael J. Fox on 'Family Ties'.Following the series, she did several feature films which had disappointing box office performance. Courteney had her first success as a movie actress when she appeared in 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' together with Jim Carrey.Her stage work includes 'King of Hearts' at the Tiffany Theatre in L.A., where she starred with Michael Spound (1989).The final break-through to a star she achieved in 1994 with the hit tv-series 'Friends' where she is playing 'Monica Geller'. The show's producers originally envisioned her in the role of Rachel but Courteney convinced them to give her the other role.In 1995 Courteney co-hosted the 'MTV Movie Awards'.Her biggest success on the big screen so far was the movie 'Scream' (1996) which made more than $100 million in the US. After the low budget movie 'Commandments' (release 5/97) she continued the success with the sequel of Scream ('Scream 2'). It was released December 12, 1997 and made almost $40 million at its opening weekend.Since summer 1998 Courteney is engaged with David Arquette whom she met during the shooting of Scream. She married him on June 12, 1999.Arquette was born in Winchester, Virginia. His father was actor Lewis Arquette, and his grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette, best remembered for his "Charley Weaver" character, a fixture on the original Hollywood Squares. Arquette's mother, Mardi Olivia Nowak, was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland,[1] and his father, who was of French, Swiss, and mostly English descent, was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis.[2] Arquette's siblings Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis and Richmond are all actors. Arquette achieved his biggest success in the slasher horror trilogy Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1998) and Scream 3 (2000) as Deputy Dewey. He also met his wife Courteney Cox on the set. They have also appeared together in a Coke advertisement on TV in 2003. The two are currently executive producers for the TBS series Daisy Does America. Arquette appeared in the videogame ESPN NFL 2K5 and lent his voice as a celebrity adversary and his very own team, the Los Angeles Locos. Arquette is also unlockable as a Free Agent in Season Mode. He appeared in the 2001 EA videogame SSX Tricky as the voice of lead character, Eddy. Arquette won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on April 25, 2000 in an effort to promote his wrestling-based movie, Ready to Rumble. The storyline was hugely unpopular; even though Arquette himself was a wrestling fan, he reportedly thought it was a bad idea. He was eventually convinced to do the stunt by head booker Vince Russo. Arquette donated the entirety of his WCW salary to the families of Brian Pillman, Owen Hart and Brian Hildebrand as well as Darren Drozdov. During Arquette's short run in WCW, on WCW Thunder, April 25, 2000, in Syracuse, New York, Arquette won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a special tag team match, pitting Arquette and Diamond Dallas Page against Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bischoff. The stipulation was that whoever got the pin would become the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Arquette was able to pin Eric Bischoff and win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. On May 7, 2000, on WCW Slamboree 2000 from the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, Jeff Jarrett defeated Arquette and Diamond Dallas Page in a Ready to Rumble style triple cage match to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. In the end of Arquette's short run in WCW, Arquette turned on Diamond Dallas Page... classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/
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