Courteney Cox was born in Birmingham Alabama on June 15th, 1964. After graduating from her local high school in 1982, she began to study architecture/interior decoration at the Mount Vernon College for Women (before it merged with GW in 1999). Courteney made her acting debut on the soap “As the World Turns”, and then later that year she was casted in Bruce Springsteen’s video “Dancing in the Dark”. Later that year, she hosted a music show called “This Weeks Music”. In 1987, she was casted as the girlfriend of Michael J. Fox on “Family Ties”. The final break-through that made her a star was “Friends”, where she was casted in 1994 as Monica. In 1998, boyfriend David Arquette proposed, and they got married a year later. In 2004, She gave birth to their first child, Coco. In 2008, Courteney was casted in her latest hit “Cougar Town”. In 2010, Cox and Arquette separated, though they still maintain a close relationship for their daughter.
Sources:
http://www.popeater.com/2010/10/11/courteney-cox-david-arquette-split/
http://www.starpulse.com/Actresses/Cox,_Courteney/Biography/