Jennifer Joanna Aniston, the American actress, Film director & Producer was born in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California on 11th February 1969.
Her father John Aniston and mother Nancy Dow were both actors.
Her parents divorced when she was only nine.
She has two half brothers.
She was brought up by her mother.
Her god father was actor Telly Salavas, who was her father's best friend.
Jennifer lived in Greece for one year with her family and later moved to New York City where she studied at the Rudolf Steiner School.
It was at this school that she developed her love for art.
She graduated from the Manhattan's Fiorello H.
LaGuardia High School of music and art and performing arts.
She supported herself doing several part time jobs.
She also appeared in Off-Broadway productions as "For Dear Life" and "Dancing on Checkers Grave".
Her first Television role was on "Molly".
While there were a series of failures in her initial attempt at acting she was considering giving up acting when she had to audition for "Friends", a sitcom on NBC in 1994-95.
She got through the audition for the role of Rachel and earned worldwide recognition among television viewers.
The show was a huge success and went on till 2004.
Jennifer received a salary of $1 million /episode for the last two seasons of Friends.
With this payment she became the highest paid TV actress, according to the Guinness world book of records (2005).
While working for television she also starred in films which was not in a big way, the response was also Luke warm.
Her grand break came with "Picture Perfect" in1997.
Her biggest box office success was "Bruce Almighty'.
She was inspired by actress Gwyneth Paltrow to direct a ten minute hospital emergency room set short film called "Room No.
10".
2008 brought "Marley & Me" which recorded the largest Christmas Day box office collection with over $14.
75 million.
In 2009 the stand out film was "He's Just Not That into you".
Again a box office hit.
She has just finished filming "Just Go with It" which is set to release in 2011.
Jennifer Aniston has also done commercials and music videos.
She was invited by Microsoft in1994 along with Friends co-star Matthew Perry to shoot 30 minute promotional advertisement for their new operating systems Windows 95.
She along with Brad Pitt and Brad Grey founded the Plan B Entertainment in 2002.
She and Grey withdrew from this company in 2005; she and Kristin Hahn formed another production company called Echo Films.
In July 2010 she released a perfume by her name at Harrods.
Jennifer has been linked to a number of actors.
In 2000 she was married to Brad Pitt and the marriage has been the focus of media attention all along.
She separated from Pitt in 2005.
After her divorce she reached out to her mother Nancy.
Aniston has been associated with a number of charitable foundations.
She supports and raises money for an Orphanage, for a children's research hospital, cancer research and treatment and many other causes.