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She quitted smoking with husband David Arquette shortly before their wedding in 1999. She admits to having smoked since she was age 13.
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She was paid $350 for her role as the surprised teenage girl pulled from the crowd to dance with Bruce Springsteen in his music video Dancing in the Dark 1984.
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The running gag of the Carlton Dance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 1990 was inspired by her. The Carlton Dance was a parody of her dance during Bruce Springsteen’s video.
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Between 2001 and 2010 she had eight miscarriages during her marriage to David Arquette. Her first miscarriage happened in 2001, before her daughter Coco was born; the next seven occurred after Coco’s birth. The eighth miscarriage happened in August 2010.
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She was six months pregnant with her daughter Coco when she completed filming on the final season of Friends 1994.
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Jennifer Aniston, her Friends co-star, is the godmother of her daughter Coco. Jennifer is also best friends with Courteney.
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She was originally offered the role of Rachel but she preferred Monica on Friends.
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She was the first person to ever say period on American television, in a Tampax commercial.
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Her daughter’s name Coco came from a compromise between her and husband David Arquette. Because of her Southern roots she wanted to name her daughter Courteney Cox, as her mom is Courteney Cox and so is she. However, David is half Jewish and it is against Jewish tradition to name a child after a living person. So the name came from the nickname Courteney’s friends had for her mother while Courtney was growing up. They called her Mama Coco.
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She had a six-year relationship with actor Michael Keaton from 1989 to 1995.
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She can play the piano and drums.
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She helped donate reward money to the Natalie Holloway investigation, having attended the same high school as Natalie.
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She was originally turned down for her role in Scream 1996 as Gale Weathers, because the producers did not believe she could portray someone bitchy as she was starring on Friends at the time portraying nice Monica. However, she continued lobbying for the role and ultimately got it.
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She is the only regular Friends cast member to not receive either an Emmy or a Golden Globe nomination for their work on the show; she later received her first Golden Globe nomination for Cougar Town 2009.
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After the birth of her daughter, she started to train in Karate. As of 2009, she holds a brown belt.
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In September 1999 she announced that her new legal and professional surname would be Courteney Cox Arquette. As a result the cast and producers of her sitcom Friends also added Arquette to their own names in the opening credits of the 1999 season’s premiere episode. She later returned to her maiden name professionally.
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Her wedding ring was engraved with the words A deal is a deal.
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She went into labor on her fifth wedding anniversary, June 12, 2004, and gave birth to her daughter the next day, two days before her 40th birthday.
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On June 26, 2014, Courteney announced she is engaged to Snow Patrol band member John McDaid. They have been in a relationship since December 2013. Her friend, Ed Sheeran, introduced him to her.
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Her hosting of the 1995 airing of Saturday Night Live began with a reenactment of her Dancing in the Dark video appearance, with Adam Sandler copying Bruce Springsteen.
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She gave birth to her first child at age 39 albeit two days before her 40th birthday, a daughter Coco Riley Arquette aka Coco Arquette, on June 13, 2004. Child’s father is her then-husband, David Arquette.
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She gets proposed to twice by characters played by actor Matthew Perry. First in Friends and later in Cougar Town 2009.
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Her ex-husband, David Arquette, played Malcolm in the Friends episode The One with the Jam 1996, on October 3, 1996. He played a stalker and mistakenly stalked fellow friend, Phoebe. This was the first time Courtney and David were seen together on television, even though they were not a couple at the time.
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Alfonso Ribeiro credits Courteney Cox for his infamous dance The Carlton. While working on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 1990, he did an exaggerated version of Cox’s Dancing in the Dark dance, whenever his character Carlton Banks was excited or celebrating.
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She worked at video game developer/publisher Bethesda briefly in the 1980s.
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She is good friends with Laura Dern, Sheryl Crow and Ellen DeGeneres.
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Her estranged husband, David Arquette, filed for divorce from her on June 8, 2012 after 12 years of marriage and 1 year and 7 months of separation.
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She is one of three actors — along with David Arquette and Neve Campbell — to appear in all four Scream films.
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She is a distant cousin of Mötley Crüe frontman Tommy Lee. They are both descendants of the same English Bass family. She is also a distant cousin of Friends co-star and on-screen husband Matthew Perry. Both descend from the English Baldwins. Other cousins include Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matt Bomer and Valerie Bertinelli.
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She returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter Coco in order to begin filming The Longest Yard 2005.
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She likes to buy houses, renovate them, and then sell them for profit.
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She was named the Hottest Babe by Playboy magazine in 1995.
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She studied architecture at Mount Vernon College for a year.
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She underwent laser eye surgery to correct her vision from 20/400 in 1999.
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On June 25, 2004, Courteney announced she and husband David Arquette are launching a production company called Coquette.
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She starred on the sitcom Friends with co-star Christina Pickles playing her on-screen mother Judy Gellar. Both actresses previously starred together in the movie Masters of the Universe 1987. Courteney Cox played Julie, and Christina Pickles played the Sorceress.
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She dated singer Adam Duritz. Duritz wrote the song Monkey for Courteney from the Counting Crows album Recovering the Satellites in 1997.
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Along with Jennifer Aniston, they are the only central members of the Friends cast to have received an actual acting Razzie nomination. Courtney was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for the film 3000 Miles to Graceland 2001. Jennifer Aniston was nominated for Worst Actress for the films The Switch 2010 and The Bounty Hunter 2010. The other cast members except for Matthew Perry have received nominations in categories such as Worst Screen Couple and Worst New Star.
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She lives in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California.
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She participated in the third Munchkin’s Project Pink annual breast cancer awareness campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. The project consists of the donation of celebrity-decorated and autographed bath ducks, put up for auction.
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In the mid-1980s, she hosted a television show called This Week’s Music 1984.
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She is a huge fan of the rock band Foo Fighters.
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She dropped out of Mount Vernon College after one year to pursue an acting and modeling career.
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 27, 2023. Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Dern were guest speakers at the ceremony.
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She has her own lipstick called Cece by Cargo.
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As of 2024, she is the only actress to appear in every Scream film.
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She has English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, German, and distant Swedish ancestry.
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She appeared in Bruce Springsteen’s music video for Dancing in the Dark when she was a teenager. She was in the front row with her friends when Bruce offered Courteney his hand, pulled her up on stage, and started dancing with her.
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In 1984, she worked at F.B.I. Frontier Booking International, a concert booking agency in New York run by Ian Copeland brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police and a relative of hers.
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She drives a Jaguar and a silver Porsche Carrera.
