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The show Friends, which featured a group of relatively unknown actors, it became a huge hit and ran for 10 seasons. It also propelled the cast (Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer) to varying degrees of stardom and success in Hollywood.
Of the six main cast members of Friends, Jennifer Aniston emerged as possibly the most famous.
Aniston played fashionista Rachel Greenwho, when the show started, was working as a waitress at Central Perk, a coffee shop that served as a hangout for friends.
the blonde hairstyle The actress’s layering during the first season became known as “The Rachel” and was copied by women all over the world. Offscreen, Aniston, whose film credits include The Good Girl (2002), Bruce Almighty (2003), Rumor Has It (2005), The Break-Up (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), We’re the Millers (2013), Cake (2014), and Dumpling (2018), became a tabloid media fixture for her relationship with actor Brad Pitt. The couple married in a lavish ceremony in Malibu, California, in 2000 and announced their separation in early 2005.
Courtney CoxThe best known of the cast members when Friends debuted, she played Monica Geller, a hyper-organized, neurotic chef.
The actress, who first gained attention when she appeared in Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 video “Dancing in the Dark,” starred in the popular sitcom Family Ties and co-starred with Jim Carrey in the 1994 hit comedy Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. (1994). She later appeared in the hit movies Scream and on the television series Dirt and Cougar Town.
The third member of the cast of Friends, Lisa Kudrow, played the crazy masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay. Kudrow’s film credits include Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (1997), The Opposite of Sex (1998), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel Analyze That (2002), and PS I Love You (2007). In 2005, and again in 2015, she headlined the hit HBO comedy series The Comeback.
The men included Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, a handsome but goofy struggling actor from 2004 to 2006, LeBlanc starred in the spin-off television series Joey.
David Schwimmer played Ross Geller, a sensitive paleontologist and Monica’s older brother. One of the main Friends storylines was Ross’s on-and-off relationship with Aniston’s Rachel.
Schwimmer’s other acting credits include the 2001 television miniseries Band of Brothers.
Completing the cast of Friends was Matthew Perry, who played the prankster businessman Chandler Bing. Perry’s film credits include Fools Rush In (1997), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), and The Whole Ten Yards (2004); she also co-starred in the short-lived NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
On May 6, 2004, More than 50 million viewers tuned in for the final episode of Friendsmaking it one of the most watched television finals in history.
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