Courteney Bass Cox Arquette (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress and former model, known for her role as Monica Geller in the popular television sitcom Friends. She currently plays Lucy Spiller, an executive editor of a tabloid magazine, on the popular drama Dirt on FX Networks.


Cox’s previous significant others include Ian Copeland and a long-term relationship with actor Michael Keaton. Cox also dated singer Adam Duritz of Counting Crows and appeared in their music video for song “A Long December” in 1997. (Duritz has also dated Cox’s Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston.)

Cox met David Arquette on the set of Scream; the couple married on June 12, 1999 in an Episcopalian ceremony held at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Both Arquette and Cox had the sentence “A deal’s a deal” inscribed on their wedding rings. After their marriage Cox announced that she would use her married name, Courteney Cox Arquette, professionally, but returned to her birth name in 2002, which was to honor her father after he died.

On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Coco Riley Arquette. The child was originally to be named after her mother as Courteney Cox Arquette. However, Arquette’s family objected to this on the grounds that naming a child after a living relative goes against Jewish tradition (David Arquette’s mother is Jewish). Coco is a nickname Cox’s friends gave her mother when she was a child. Jennifer Aniston is the baby’s godmother.

In June 2007, Cox announced plans to expand her family. The actress said she hopes to have a child through in vitro fertilisation despite battling post-natal depression after Coco’s birth.For the complete gallery click here

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