We all think we know the actresses we adore and like, but how many things do we actually know about them?
Here we are about to dive into the lives of some of the most famous and successful actresses of all the times.
1. Cox was born and raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.
2. She is best identified for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, Gale Weathers in the horror series Scream, and as Jules Cobb in the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination.
3. Courteney attended Mountain Brook High School in Alabama.
4. In 1997, Courteney was voted Best Dressed Female Television Star.
5. Courteney can play the drums and the piano.
6. Even before they became a couple on the show, Cox said that if Monica had to “do” a Friend, she would choose Chandler. In the Elle profile from 1997, Cox was asked “if Monica had to ‘do’ another Friend, which would it be?” Her answer? “Chandler,” because in her mind, the character’s sarcastic bite was similar to Monica’s. The two characters eventually hooked up during the Season 4 finale in London, almost exactly a year after the quote was published.
7. Courteney’s first ever movie was Masters of the Universe in 1987.
8. Cox was a neat freak just like Monica and would clean the others’ dressing rooms. “Let’s face it, she’s adorable and intelligent and really together. She is Monica,” show co-creator Marta Kauffman told the Los Angeles Times in 1995. “She has the neatest dressing room. She even cleans up the other actors’ dressing rooms because she won’t go in there if they are too messy.”
9. Courteney appeared in two of NBC’s public service announcements, The More You Know. Her topics were violence prevention and designated drivers.
10. Cox had a special place called “Courteney’s Candy Cabinet” on the “Friends” set. A Natural Living Today story from 1996 claimed Cox was “once famous for scarfing down junk food from an on-set cache called ‘Courteney Candy Cabinet.’” Butterfingers were a particular favorite. Us Weekly’s cover story from the same year claimed that Cox was “addicted to candy bars.” The actress proudly stated, “my first choice would be a Butterfinger.”
11. Cox also starred in the FX series Dirt.
12. Courteney was pregnant during the filming of the final season of Friends.
13. Courteney has brown hair and blue eyes.
14. During her senior year, Courteney got her first modeling gig in an advertisement for a store called Parisians.
15. Courteney received $32,300 of bed linen as a housewarming gift from Jennifer Aniston..
16. Courteney was in all three Scream movies playing news reporter, Gale Weathers.
17. She owns a production company, called Coquette Productions, which was created by her and her then-husband David Arquette.
18. Courteney raises awareness for the skin disease epidomolysis bullosa. She has designed an eye shadow palette — Coco for Cargo Cosmetics. All profits will go to research, and hopefully find prevention for this disease.
19. Cox also worked as a director on her sitcom Cougar Town and the television movie Talhotblond.
20. Courteney bought the moving bookcase which appears in the movie Scream 3.
21. Courteney’s nickname is CeCe.
22. She has two older sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother, Richard, Jr.
23. Courteney’s height is 5’5″.
24. Courteney’s parents are Richard and Courteney Cox. She has two older sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother Richard.
25. On Friends, Courteney was originally cast the part of ‘Rachel Green’ but the writers and producers thought the part of ‘Monica Gellar’ would suit her better.
26. Courteney’s daughter’s godmother is Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston.
27. Her parents divorced in 1974 and her mother then married businessman Hunter Copeland (uncle to music promoter and business manager Ian Copeland).
28. Courteney shared a Screen Actors Guild award with the rest of the cast of Friends for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Comedy series in 1996. They were nominated six straight years from 1999-2004, all without a win.
29. In different years, Courteney was married on June 12, gave birth on June 13, and born on June 15.
30. Courteney was the best known cast member of the hit TV show Friends when it began its 10 year run.
31. After graduating from Mountain Brook High School, Cox left for Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., but did not complete her architecture course, opting instead to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
32. Despite the fact that she’s the only cast member of Friends without an Emmy nomination, Courteney has had four box office hits: the trilogy Scream and the 1994 film Ace Ventura.
33. In 1997 and 1998 she was listed at number 9 in FHM’s 100 sexiest women list (readers’ choice).
34. Courteney announced her pregnancy in January 2004, two months after David Arquette’s brother Alexis broke the news on The Sharon Osbourne Show. The couple wanted to keep the news quiet because Courteney had several miscarriages.
35. Courteney is the girl that Bruce Springsteen picked up to dance with during the “Dancing in the Dark” video. Her second appearance in a videoclip was in the Counting Crows’ “Long December”. She was paid $350.
36. Courteney has two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, named Hopper and Harley. Hopper is tri-color (red, white, and black), while Harley is red and white. Cavaliers are known for their friendly, trusting nature.
37. Courteney’s daughter’s name is Coco Riley Arquette.
38. Courteney starred in Family Ties as Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend Lauren.
39. She identifies as Irish-American.
40. Courteney had laser eye surgery.
41. Cox dated actor Michael Keaton from 1990-95. She married actor David Arquette on June 12, 1999, and the couple welcomed a baby girl, Coco, in June 2004. After separating in 2010, the couple filed for divorce in 2012.
42. She studied architecture for a year at Mount Vernon College, but soon dropped out to pursue a modeling career in New York City. That pursuit led to small roles in film and on television.
43. As a child, she was an avid swimmer and tennis player.
44. Cox began dating Snow Patrol band member Johnny McDaid in late 2013. The couple announced their engagement on Twitter on June 26, 2014. On November 28, 2015 it was announced that the couple had split up and called off their engagement.
45. In 1995, she was cast in Toad the Wet Sprocket’s music video “Good Intentions”. The song is also on the Friends Soundtrack.
46. She appeared on a commercial for Tampax and became the first person to use the term “period” on TV.
47. David Arquette proposed to Courteney in Panama City, FL, in front of Courteney’s entire family.
48. Courteney appears on the cover of the December issue of Details magazine as “America’s Scream Girl.”
49. During Hathaway’s audition for “The Princess Diaries,” Hathaway accidentally fell out of her chair and was offered the role right on the spot.
50. Hathaway was originally supposed to play Katherine Heigl’s role in “Knocked Up,” but dropped out before filming started.
51. Every August 3, Hathaway gives thanks to the universe. She chose that day because it is the day “Princess Diaries” came out.
52. Hathaway experienced real-life fear when she got caught up in a riptide during vacation in Oahu, Hawaii. Luckily, a surfer came to her rescue before she drowned.
53. The FBI once seized Hathaway’s diaries when her ex Raffaello Follieri was arrested for wire fraud and money laundering. She never had any charges pressed against her.
54. Hathaway once cried after reading an article about Kate Winslet in Vogue. Why? Because she was so overwhelmed by how much she loved Winslet. We get it.
55. Hathaway was the first teenager admitted to the acting program at The Barrow Group in New York.
56. Hathaway shares the same name with William Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway.
57. Hathaway made her TV debut was in a Better Homes and Garden Real Estate commercial filmed in 1997.
58. Jennifer Lawrence’s is Jennifer Shrader Lawrence.
59. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine.
60. Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 15, 1990.
61. She was a real tomboy growing up. When she was in preschool, she wasn’t allowed to play with the other girls because she was “too rough.”
62. She graduated from high school in two years with a 3.9 GPA.
63. Jennifer Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, to Lawrence & Associates construction owner Gary Lawrence and children’s camp manager Karen (Koch) Lawrence.
64. She earned her first Academy Award nomination for her leading role in the 2010 independent feature Winter’s Bone.
65. Lawrence was an athletic child, involved in cheerleading, field hockey and softball, and thought she might be a doctor when she grew up.
66. She did some modeling and community theater, but never dreamed that she’d become an actress.
67. Jennifer is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish descent.
68. While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at the children’s summer day camp that her mother ran.
69. Lawrence’s big break came when she was discovered at 14 while on spring break in New York with her family. A stranger asked to take her picture and took her mother’s phone number, then called the next day to ask her to do a screen test.
70. Things happened quickly after that: Lawrence stayed in New York City for the summer, acting in commercials for MTV and filming the 2007 thriller Devil You Know with Lena Olin (the film was shelved due to lack of distribution and was eventually released in 2013).
71. Soon after, Lawrence and her family moved to Los Angeles, where she had small roles on the series Medium, Monk and Cold Case, before landing a part on the TBS series The Bill Engvall Show. While working on the series, she also appeared in feature films like The Poker House and The Burning Plain alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger.
72. After The Bill Engvall Show was canceled after three seasons, Lawrence went on to appear in the critically acclaimed Winter’s Bone in 2010, which earned her nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
73. In 2011 Lawrence appeared in The Beaver with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and Anton Yelchin, and played Mystique in X-Men: First Class.
74. The film broke box-office records on opening weekend, and Lawrence was asked to reprise her role for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2013.
75. Other 2012 releases included the thriller House at the End of the Street, co-starring Elisabeth Shue, and two dramas with Bradley Cooper: The Falling and Silver Linings Playbook, which has garnered several award nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination (best actress in a comedy or musical) for Lawrence.
76. In 2012, Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen, the lead in The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of a novel by Suzanne Collins.
77. Her film “House at the End of the Street” was delayed and nearly slated for a straight-to-video release, but Lawrence’s Oscar nomination for “Winter’s Bone” put it back on track, pushing the horror film to a surprising $42 million haul.
78. After considering the effect of the role of Bella Swan on Kristen Stewart’s personal life, Jennifer initially turned down the role of Katniss Everdeen. Three days later, she accepted the role.
79. The talented Ms. Lawrence has no formal acting training. In fact, she wasn’t even enrolled in the drama program at her school, but she did perform in local theater from an early age.
80. She auditioned to play Bella Swan in Twilight, but Kristen Stewart landed the part.
81. Nicole Mary Kidman was born 20 June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas.
82. Her father was Antony Kidman, a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, who died of a heart attack in Singapore aged 75.
83. Her mother, Janelle Ann, is a nursing instructor who edited her husband’s books and was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby.
84. Kidman’s ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, and English heritage.
85. Being born in Hawaii, she was given the Hawaiian name Hōkūlani. The inspiration for the name came from a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo but the name is also a commonly used Hawaiian name for girls, meaning ‘Heavenly Star’.
86. At the time of Kidman’s birth, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
87. He became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States.
88. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Kidman’s parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D.C.
89. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her mother now lives on Sydney’s North Shore.
90. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.
91. Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls’ High School.
92. She was enrolled in ballet at three and showed her natural talent for acting in her primary and high school years.
93. She says that she was first inspired to become an actress upon seeing Margaret Hamilton’s performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
94. Kidman has revealed that she was timid as a child, saying, “I am very shy – really shy – I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don’t like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don’t like going to a party by myself.”
95. She initially studied at the Philip Street Theatre in Sydney.
96. At Philip Street, Kidman studied alongside Naomi Watts who had attended the same high school.[19] She also attended the Australian Theatre for Young People.
97. Here she took up drama, mime and performing in her teens, finding acting to be a refuge.
98. Owing to her fair skin and naturally red hair, the Australian sun forced the young Kidman to rehearse in the halls of the theatre. A regular at the Phillip Street Theatre, she received both encouragement and praise to pursue acting full-time.
99. Kidman’s breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton.
100. Appearing in several films in the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock-car racing film Days of Thunder (1990), the romance-drama Far and Away (1992), and the hero film Batman Forever (1995).
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