Jennifer Aniston

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Jennifer Aniston (2012)

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and executive producer who occasionally appeared as a director . She is one of the highest paid and most influential people in the entertainment industry.

She gained international fame through the role of Rachel Green in the TV sitcom Friends (1994-2004), for which she received the Emmy , the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award , among others .

In parallel to her television career, Aniston established herself as a film actress from the mid-1990s. After making her screen debut in the horror film Leprechaun (1993), she appeared in a number of romantic comedies such as The Booked Man (1997) and Love in Any Relationship (1998). In the 2000s and 2010s she mostly played the protagonist in blockbuster comedies like Bruce Almighty (2003), ... and then came Polly (2004), Parting With Obstacles (2006), Marley & Me (2008), My Made Up Wife (2011 ) and We Are the Millers (2013).

She received special recognition from critics for her acting achievements in the independent films The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006) and Cake (2014). She received the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for her role as the fictional breakfast television presenter Alex Levy in the series The Morning Show , for which she has been in front of the camera since 2019.

With her production company Echo Films , founded in 2008 , Aniston also works as an executive producer, for example on the Netflix productions Dumplin ' (2018) and Murder Mystery (2019).

Early years

Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks . Her father, the Greek-born actor John Aniston , was born Yannis (according to other sources, Giannis ) Anastassakis in Crete in 1933 and emigrated as a child with his parents to the USA, where the family Anglicised their last name and had a diner in Chester , Pennsylvania opened. Her mother, Nancy Dow , whose ancestors came from Italy and Scotland , was born in Connecticut and worked as a model and actress in television series in the 1960s. Aniston's older half-brother, John Melick, was born from her mother's first marriage, and her younger half-brother, Alexander Aniston, was born from her father's second marriage to actress Sherry Rooney . The Kojak actor Telly Savalas was Aniston's godfather .

When Aniston was five years old, she lived with her family in Greece for a year and then for some time in the small town of Eddystone , Pennsylvania, where she attended Eddystone Elementary School . Her parents separated when Aniston was nine years old. Her father moved to Los Angeles, where he has played the role of Victor Kiriakis in the television series Zeit der Sehnsucht since 1985 , and Aniston grew up with her mother in New York City . She attended the Rudolf Steiner School, where she played in the theater group and discovered her interest in art. When she was nine (eleven, according to another source), one of her paintings was selected for a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . She later attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan with Chaz Bono and Andrea Bendewald , from which she graduated in 1987.

Career

Start of career

After graduating from high school , Aniston took acting classes with Anthony Abeson at the Musical Works Theater in New York City. One of her first professional engagements was appearing in a commercial for the American restaurant chain Big Boy , followed by an extra role in the science fiction adventure film Mick, My Friend from Another Star (1988). From December 1988 to January 1989, Aniston appeared on the side of Tony Shalhoub , Christine Estabrook and Laila Robins and under the direction of Norman René in 46 performances of the off-Broadway production For Dear Life at the New York Public Theater. She also appeared in the piece Dancing On Checkers' Grave . Since her salaries were not particularly high, she earned the rest of her living as a bicycle messenger, telephone seller and waitress.

In search of more lucrative role offers, Aniston moved to Los Angeles in 1989, where she received her first television engagements in the short-lived family sitcom Molloy (1990) opposite Mayim Bialik and in the television film Chaos in Camp Cucamonga (1990). She then played a leading role in the television series Ferris Bueller (1990-1991), based on the movie Ferris makes blue , which was discontinued after 13 episodes. This was followed by a guest appearance in the television series Back to the Past (1992), a role in the sketch series The Edge (1992-1993) and finally the first leading role in a movie, the horror flick Leprechaun - The Killer Goblin (1993), however was not a great success with either critics or audiences. After her next engagement in the unsuccessful television series Muddling Through (1994) ended after only ten episodes, Aniston briefly considered giving up acting.

Breakthrough and television career

Aniston
(top row, center) was in front of the camera with her Friends co-stars Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry from 1994 to 2004.

In 1994 Aniston received the offer to participate as a permanent member of the ensemble on Saturday Night Live , which she turned down in favor of the role of Rachel Green in the NBC sitcom Friends . The series about the life of six friends in New York City started in the fall of 1994 and quickly became a huge success with well over 20 million viewers per episode.

Aniston and her co-stars Courteney Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer became world famous through the sitcom and were among the best-paid actors on US television during their run. For the first season, all six main actors received a fee of 22,500 US dollars per episode, which has increased continuously over the years. They later negotiated additional profit sharing and a fee of $ 1 million per episode for each of them for the last two seasons. According to the Guinness Book of Records from 2005, they were at the top of the highest-paid series stars.

Aniston has received many critical awards for her role in Friends , including the Screen Actors Guild Award in 1996, the Emmy in 2002 and the Golden Globe in 2003. In her no- makeup interview with James Lipton in July 2011, Aniston said of the show, “It was one of the greatest jobs I've ever had. He gave me everything. He made this ridiculously blessed life and career possible for me, and he taught me so much, and it was the best time I've ever had. "

In 2004 the sitcom was discontinued after ten successful years. The series finale on May 6, 2004 was followed by 52.5 million viewers in the USA. Although Aniston has been mostly on the big screen since Friends ended , she has occasionally returned to the television screen and has guest roles on series such as 30 Rock (2008) and Cougar Town (2010). Aniston was nominated for an Emmy in 2009 for her guest appearance on 30 Rock .

Since 2019 she has played alongside Reese Witherspoon , Steve Carell and Billy Crudup in the drama series The Morning Show on Apple TV +, the fictional breakfast television presenter Alex Levy, whose long-time co-host has been accused of sexual assault and abuse of power in the workplace. She received critical acclaim for her performance, a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award 2020 for best actress in a drama series.

Film career

1990s

Parallel to the filming of Friends , Aniston pushed her cinema career forward. In the romantic comedy Café Blue Eyes (1996) she played in a supporting role at the side of Ione Skye, the waitress Allison, who dreams of a career in Hollywood. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote of her portrayal, “[Aniston] does nothing but dance every few minutes to exude her charm and look very, very, very pretty. Who's complaining? ”That same year, she starred as Cameron Diaz and Edward Burns in She's the One, an abandoned wife. The New York Times praised her presentation as "professional" and "wonderfully funny".

In The Booked Man (1997) Aniston starred alongside Kevin Bacon , Jay Mohr and Olympia Dukakis . The New York Times found Aniston at her best to the young Barbra Streisand in Is' what, Doc? remember and, according to Time Out Magazine , the actress has the rare gift of winning over audiences even when the footage is anything but convincing. Aniston received a fee of two million US dollars for the film. She then took on a supporting role in the film Two Singles in LA (1997) with Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dylan McDermott in the lead roles. In her next movie, Love in Every Relationship (1998), Aniston played for the first time on the side of Paul Rudd , who later also took on a supporting role in Friends . The comedy received mixed reviews, but praised the "chemistry" of the two leading actors and the performance of the entire ensemble, which also included Alan Alda and Allison Janney .

After this series of romantic comedies , Aniston played a waitress in the 1999 critically acclaimed, satirical comedy Everything Routine . While the film was only able to bring in its production costs of ten million US dollars at the box office, it became a success after the release on DVD.

2000s

Jennifer Aniston (2009)

In the music film- drama Rock Star (2001), for which she received a fee of three million US dollars, Aniston played the manager of a rock band and friend of their lead singer , played by Mark Wahlberg . The industry journal Variety found that Aniston's convincing performance was remarkable, even if the role was not demanding. With The Good Girl , an independent film drama from 2002, recorded Aniston alongside John C. Reilly , Jake Gyllenhaal and Zooey Deschanel their first major success in film critics of their nominations for the Satellite Award and Independent Spirit Award as best leading actress. Many critics consider Aniston's portrayal of the bored cashier Justine Last to be one of her best roles and the first promising cornerstone of her film career. For example, Roger Ebert wrote of her: “After languishing in a number of overlooked films […] Jennifer Aniston finally broke with her friends image in an independent film of satirical fire and emotional turmoil . It will no longer be possible to look at them in the same way. "

The financial success came in 2003 with the comedy Bruce Almighty at the side of Jim Carrey , which grossed 484.6 million US dollars worldwide. The next film - the comedy ... and then came Polly (2004), starring Ben Stiller and Philip Seymour Hoffman - also hit the box office, and Aniston was paid $ 5 million for the title role. The filming of the two comedies overlapped, and Aniston also turned Friends , so she was in front of the camera for three projects at the same time for a short time. In the thriller Derailed (2005) she played - alongside Clive Owen and Vincent Cassel - clearly against her "romantic comedy image" and embodied a mysterious stranger who is the victim of rape. However, this role change did not convince the critics. ReelViews said, “Jennifer Aniston is miscast as half a femme fatale . The role demands more than [Aniston] is able to give […] ”The San Francisco Chronicle found that Aniston was a pale imitation of a femme fatale and that she lacked the self-confidence on the big screen to do her acting To expand the repertoire beyond 'sweet and bold'.

In Where Love Falls… (2005), Aniston stood in front of the camera with Mark Ruffalo , Kevin Costner , Kathy Bates , Mena Suvari and Shirley MacLaine for a fee of eight million US dollars . The film is about a woman (Aniston) who discovers that her family history was the model for the novel and the film The Graduation . Despite the star cast, it was not successful with critics or at the box office. In January 2005, the shooting of the independent film Friends with Money from Nicole Holofcener began in Los Angeles . As Aniston's separation from her husband Brad Pitt had become known shortly before , the film set was besieged by paparazzi , which made filming considerably more difficult. Friends with Money ran as the opening film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and Aniston played Olivia, an indecisive woman in her late 30s who had just given up her job as a teacher in order to earn a living as a cleaning lady - a decision that her wealthy friends do not understand can. Aniston and her co-stars Catherine Keener , Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack earned critical acclaim for their collaboration.

Aniston had her next big box office success at the side of Vince Vaughn in the comedy Separation with Obstacles (2006), which grossed around 205 million US dollars worldwide. Marley & Ich (2008), in which Aniston can be seen alongside Owen Wilson , was even more commercially successful with worldwide box office earnings of $ 242.7 million. She received a fee of eight million US dollars each for both films. Aniston was also successful at the box office with the episode film He's Just Not Into You (2009), for which she was in front of the camera with Ben Affleck . She next played a florist in Love Happens (2009) who helps a widower ( Aaron Eckhart ) deal with the loss of his wife.

2010s

Jennifer Aniston at the 2011 film premiere of Kill the Boss .

In the early 2010s, Aniston took on the female lead in The Bail Cop (2010) with Gerard Butler and shot the comedy Awkward in Love with Jason Bateman (2010). Both films only had moderate admissions, failed to convince the majority of the film critics and Aniston was nominated for the negative Golden Raspberry award in 2011 for both performances as " worst actress " . On the other hand, the 2011 comedy My Invented Woman starring Adam Sandler , Brooklyn Decker and Nicole Kidman became an international box office success, grossing over US $ 214.9 million worldwide and bringing Aniston US $ 10 million in film fees in the tens of millions for the first time .

In June 2011 the world premiere of Kill the Boss took place at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood . In the comedy film, Aniston plays a nymphomaniac dentist who sexually harasses and blackmails her assistant Dale ( Charlie Day ) until he decides to have her murdered. Director Seth Gordon had Aniston in mind for this role from the very beginning: "When I first read the script, I imagined her in the role [...] I always knew she had great comedic talent, but I have the feeling Always having seen that she can do more than what is offered. ”Aniston, who received a fee of six million US dollars for the role, also saw the offer as a welcome change from what she usually does embodied characters: For you, the question never asked whether she would take on the role, only when .

In February 2012 the film Wanderlust - The Trip of a Lifetime was released in the US . Aniston and Paul Rudd play in a New York couple that the cost of living in Manhattan can no longer afford and a hippy - community connects. Aniston's next film, the comedy We Are the Millers , premiered at New York's Ziegfeld Theater in August 2013 . With a worldwide box office of nearly 270 million US dollars, the production is one of Aniston's most commercially successful films. In the film Life of Crime , which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 and is based on Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch , Aniston plays a kidnapping victim alongside Tim Robbins , John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey .

In the 2014 drama Cake , Aniston embodies a drug-addicted woman who has been disfigured by an accident and is plagued by chronic pain alongside Anna Kendrick , Sam Worthington and Adriana Barraza . The Hollywood Reporter praised her strong acting performance in her most demanding dramatic role since The Good Girl and Deadline certified Aniston an Oscar-worthy performance. For the role, Aniston was nominated for a Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress. She was also honored for her performance at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015 with the prestigious Montecito Award, previous winners of which include Daniel Day-Lewis , Julianne Moore and Javier Bardem .

Also in 2014, she played the role of a psychotherapist in Peter Bogdanovich's comedy film Broadway Therapy and in the sequel Kill the Boss 2 . In 2016, she took on roles in the episode film Mother's Day: Love Isn't Child's Play with Julia Roberts and the Christmas comedy Office Christmas Party . The following year she played alongside Toni Collette , Alden Ehrenreich and Jack Huston in the anti-war drama The Yellow Birds, a mother whose son (played by Tye Sheridan ) is killed in action. This was followed by leading roles in the Netflix productions Dumplin ' (2018) and Murder Mystery (2019). The latter was streamed by 73 million households within the first four weeks of its release, according to Netflix.

Career as a producer and director

Aniston founded the production company Echo Films with Kristin Hahn (right) in 2008.

Aniston founded the film production company Plan B Entertainment in 2002 with Brad Gray, who later became the managing director of Paramount Pictures , and her then-husband Brad Pitt . The company got involved in the production of blockbusters such as Troy (2004) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). After the two actors divorced in October 2005, Aniston withdrew from the company and Pitt took over their company shares. In April 2008, together with Kristin Hahn, she founded the production company Echo Films , with which, according to a statement on the founding of the company, she wanted to "bring tangible stories about people with their worries and challenges in everyday life to the screen" and "reflect ideas and experiences that concern everyone . “The projects that have been realized so far include, among others, the films Circumstances in Love (2010), Life of Crime (2013) and Dumplin ' (2018) as well as the series The Morning Show (2019).

In 2006 Aniston first directed the short film Room 10, which starred Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson . The actress' directorial debut was awarded the Jury Prize for the best short film at the CineVegas International Film Festival . In 2011 she directed one of five short films under the project name Five on the US television station Lifetime Television . The film deals with the topic of breast cancer and its effects on those affected. Patricia Clarkson and Jeanne Tripplehorn play the leading roles in Aniston's short film . The short film was first broadcast in October 2011. Aniston was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for her performance as a director .

Appearances in music videos, at the theater and as an advertising face

Together with the other Friends -Hauptdarstellern Aniston is in the music video of the sitcom theme song I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts to see. In 1996, Aniston played in the music video for Walls of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with and in 2001 she joined Melissa Etheridge to video I Want To Be In Love on.

In addition to her theater engagements at the beginning of her acting career in the late 1980s, Aniston also appeared as a surprise guest at the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway in New York in November 2010 . She played the ghost of a deceased dog in the play The Bitch Downstairs on the side of Kyra Sedgwick and Sam Rockwell . It was her third participation in the annual theater marathon: in 2006 she had an appearance in the play Three Girls and Bob and in 2009 she appeared on stage with Brooke Shields in Ramen Noodle . In June 2011 the 24 Hour Plays were first performed in Los Angeles, this time Aniston was part of the ensemble.

In 1994, Aniston and her Friends colleague Matthew Perry shot a 30-minute commercial for Microsoft in which they introduced the then newly released Windows 95 operating system . From 2007 to 2019 she acted as the advertising face for Glacéaus Smartwater . Aniston also advertised for Barclays , Heineken , the cosmetic brands L'Oréal , Living Proof and Aveeno , the Emirates airline and six of its own perfumes . Their ad revenue is estimated at over $ 10 million per year.

Choice of roles and means of expression

In most of the films she shot during and after the end of Friends , Aniston was in the character type of the "supportive friend" of the male lead ( rock star , Bruce Almighty , ... and then came Polly ) or a protagonist in romantic comedies (e. B. Picture Perfect , My Affection , Rumor Has It , the Switch ) defined and their roles were often "Rachel-like" as described. Aniston's attempts to embody a different type of woman turned out to be a failure with audiences and critics in the studio production Derailed , but in independent films like The Good Girl , friends with money , management and cake , which only reached a smaller audience. a lot of positive feedback.

Famous for her comedic timing, Aniston relied heavily on body language and variations in her voice to portray Rachel Green. By using syncopated cadence and pitch, she made the Friends character resemble characters from screwball comedies such as Carol Templeton in Pajamas for Two , played by Doris Day . In the role of Rachel, Aniston gesticulated a lot with arms and hands while speaking - a means of expression that she had to abandon almost completely for the character of Justine Last in The Good Girl on the instructions of director Miguel Arteta . Instead, she acted with drooping shoulders, hands held on her sides, and a shuffling, clumsy gait. In addition, she appeared in the film in oversized clothing, with uncombed hair and almost no makeup. According to Arteta, Aniston wore weights on her wrists and ankles for a month before filming began to prepare her posture for the role. If she tended to use her hands in a scene, he instructed her to sit on her hands. In separation with obstacles, Aniston underplayed her role. For her role in Cake , Aniston let make- up artists transform her - similar to Charlize Theron for Monster (2003) - into an unattractive woman with facial scars, stringy hair and a pale complexion. She also gained weight for the role.

Wealth and influence

One of the top paid and most influential people in the entertainment industry, According to Forbes , Aniston has appeared regularly on the magazine's annual rankings since 2001. In 2003, she was # 1 on Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Celebrities ranking because, according to the business magazine, she earned $ 35 million in total fees from June 2002 to June 2003 and made more magazine covers than any other star adorned. In 2007, Forbes estimated Aniston's net worth at $ 110 million, making her one of the top 20 richest women in entertainment. On Forbes' 2009 list of the 100 Most Powerful Celebrities, Aniston was ranked 8th with $ 25 million in total fees. In 2014, she was ranked 77th of the highest earning with earnings of $ 31 million Celebrities. In 2018, she was the third highest-earning actress in the world at $ 19.5 million.

Aniston has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2007 and is therefore entitled to vote in the annual election of the Oscar winners. When Aniston signed up for Instagram in October 2019 , her account had a million followers after just 5 hours and 16 minutes, making it into the Guinness Book of Records . Due to the huge onslaught, your account was temporarily no longer available. In March 2020, she had over 30 million followers with her Instagram profile.

social commitment

Aniston is involved in numerous social projects. For example, she campaigned for the Friends of El Faro charity, which collects donations for a Mexican orphanage in Tijuana , and has supported the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's publicity and donation campaign for years .

She was photographed by Bryan Adams for the 2005 illustrated book American Women , the proceeds of which are donated to organizations that educate people about breast cancer and fight the disease. Together with other personalities from the entertainment industry, she has also been committed to Stand Up to Cancer since 2008 .

In May 2008, she and Woody Harrelson made a short film as part of the Burma, It Can't Wait campaign to raise awareness of the human rights situation in Myanmar . In 2009 she worked as a narrator in setting the children's books by Nick Katsoris to music , the proceeds of which will go to social institutions.

In 2010, Aniston appeared as part of a campaign to protect dolphins along with other Hollywood stars in the short film The Cove PS: My Friend is… directed by Andrés Useche . After the 2010 Haiti earthquake , Aniston donated US $ 500,000 to help the victims of the disaster and supported the Hope for Haiti Now charity fundraising marathon by taking donation calls with other celebrities. In October 2017, she donated $ 1 million for the victims of Hurricanes Harvey , Irma and Maria .

Private life

From 1990 to 1991, Aniston and Charlie Schlatter , her series partner from Ferris Bueller , were a couple. In the early 1990s, she also had a long-term relationship with actor Daniel McDonald . In 1995 she was briefly in a relationship with Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz and from 1995 to 1998 Aniston had a relationship with her fellow actor Tate Donovan , with whom she stood in front of the camera for a few Friends episodes in 1998 . In the spring of 1998, Aniston met Brad Pitt and married him on July 29, 2000. During the marriage, Pitt also had a guest appearance on Friends : In season 8, he played the role of an old schoolmate Rachel does not suffer in the episode The Hate Club can. In real life, the couple announced their split on January 7, 2005. Aniston filed for divorce on March 25, 2005 because of "irreconcilable differences". The marriage was legally divorced on October 2, 2005. Aniston and her film partner Vince Vaughn became a couple while filming Break Up With Obstacles in the summer of 2005 ; the relationship lasted until December 2006. From spring 2008 to March 2009 she was in a relationship with the singer John Mayer . In August 2012 she got engaged to the actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux , with whom she stood in front of the camera for the film Wanderlust - The Trip of a Lifetime . The couple married on August 5, 2015 and announced their separation in February 2018.

Aniston is the godmother of the daughter of Courteney Cox and David Arquette . She lives in Bel Air , a suburb of Los Angeles.

reception

Jennifer Aniston (2010)

Since the 1990s, Aniston has been known as "America's Sweetheart" (America's darling) and "down-to-earth Girl Next Door " with whom the female audience can identify and which is desired by men. According to Johnson (2012), this image was created by Aniston's “iconic” role of Rachel Green in Friends : “The more the line between the“ real ”Jennifer Aniston and Rachel blurred, the more“ authentic ”Aniston became. The perceived roundedness, normality and sensitivity of her series character paved the way for mainstream screen roles in which she could be completely relaxed and entertaining as well as warm and lovable. ”The role also made her a fashion icon and her hairstyle during the first and second seasons , the "Rachel Look" - in English also simply "The Rachel" - was the subject of many fashion magazines and was copied by women all over the world.

In the early 2000s, Aniston was seen in the media as "the model example of a woman who has everything": She was counted by various magazines as one of the most beautiful women in the world, had a successful television career and had an apparent dream marriage with Brad Pitt. This image changed in the mid-2000s with the divorce from Pitt and the basic rumor that Pitt had started an affair with his film partner and later second wife Angelina Jolie while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith . From then on, Aniston was portrayed by the media as a “pitiful, aging abandoned woman”. The supposed rivalry between her - the "Girl Next Door" - and Jolie - the " Vamp " - made headlines and was marketed by clothing manufacturers through the sale of T-shirts labeled "Team Aniston" and "Team Jolie", the Aniston T-shirts sold significantly better at a ratio of 25: 1.

Aniston's private life - for example, her seemingly unsuccessful love affairs and speculation about a possible pregnancy or the reason for her childlessness - became a constant topic in the gossip press. Her previous relationship with Pitt has also been picked up again and again in the media, even years after their separation. Austerlitz (2019) explains the public interest in Aniston's private life as follows: “Much of America [...] got to know Aniston as Rachel Green and was never quite able to tell the two apart [...] There was no audience yearning for happy endings satisfied with the one delivered by Friends ; it wanted a similar happy ending in real life, with Brad Pitt or Justin Theroux or Vince Vaughn replacing Ross Geller. "

According to Berridge (2015), Aniston's professional success fades due to the media coverage of her private life, other critics even expressed the view that Aniston owes her film career to the gossip press and not to her screen presence. Aniston has been described as a “ box office poison ” several times , but in fact most of her films have proven to be profitable after their release on DVD at the latest and have grossed a total of over three billion US dollars worldwide, half of them in the USA alone. The Jennifer Aniston Neuron was named after her.

Filmography

As an actress

With the exception of Leprechaun - Der Killerkobold (1992) and Two Singles in LA (1997), Aniston is dubbed in the German version of her films by Ulrike Stürzbecher . Nadja Reichardt lent her voice in the sitcom Friends .

As a voice actress

Music videos

  • 1995: I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts
  • 1996: Walls by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • 2001: I Want To Be In Love by Melissa Etheridge

As an executive producer

  • 2008: management
  • 2010: Awkwardly in love (The Switch)
  • 2013: Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (TV movie)
  • 2013: Life of Crime
  • 2014: Cake
  • 2017: The Yellow Birds
  • 2018: Dumplin '
  • 2019: Murder Mystery
  • since 2019: The Morning Show (TV series)

As a director

  • 2006: Room 10 (short film)
  • 2011: Five (TV movie, segment Mia )

Theatrography

  • 1988: For Dear Life (Public Theater, New York City)
  • 1988: Dancing on Checkers' Grave (Orange Thoughts Theater Company, New York City)
  • 2006: Three Girls and Bob (The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, American Airlines Theater, New York City)
  • 2009: Ramen Noodle (The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, American Airlines Theater, New York City)
  • 2010: The Bitch Downstairs (The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, American Airlines Theater, New York City)

Awards and honors

Aniston's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Since July 7, 2011, Aniston has been one of the movie stars whose hand and shoe prints were immortalized in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard . She also holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , unveiled on February 22, 2012 in honor of her accomplishments in the movie business. It is the 2462nd star on the famous sidewalk and is located at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

In the course of her career, Aniston has been nominated for numerous film and television awards and has received several awards:

American Comedy Award

  • 1996: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series for Friends
  • 1999: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series for Friends
  • 2001: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series for Friends

Critics' Choice Movie Award

  • 2015: Nomination for Best Actress for Cake

Directors Guild of America Award

Emmy Award

  • 2000: Nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy series for Friends
  • 2001: Nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy series for Friends
  • 2002: Award for best leading actress in a comedy series for Friends
  • 2003: Nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy series for Friends
  • 2004: Nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy series for Friends
  • 2009: Nomination for best guest actress in a comedy series for 30 Rock
  • 2020: Nomination for best leading actress in a drama series for The Morning Show

Golden Globe Award

Independent Spirit Award

Kids' Choice Award

  • 2009: Nomination for Most Popular Film Actress for Marley & Me

MTV Movie Award

Online Film Critics Society Award

People's Choice Award

  • 2001: Award as the most popular television actress
  • 2002: Award for most popular television actress
  • 2003: Award for Favorite TV Actress
  • 2004: Award for the most popular television actress
  • 2007: Award for most popular film actress
  • 2007: joint nomination with Vince Vaughn as the most popular screen couple for separation with obstacles
  • 2010: Nomination for the most popular film actress
  • 2011: Nomination for the most popular film actress
  • 2012: Nomination as most popular film actress and most popular film comedy actress
  • 2013: Award as the most popular film comedy actress

Satellite Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

(* together with Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer)

Teen Choice Award

  • 2009: Nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for He's Just Not That Into You
  • 2009: Nomination for best film actress in a comedy for Marley & Me
  • 2011: Joint award with Adam Sandler as screen couple with the best chemistry in the film for My Invented Wife

Further awards

  • 2002: Honored with the Hollywood Film Award for Actress of the Year
  • 2005: Received the ShoWest Award as female star of the year
  • 2007: Received the Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for promoting visibility and understanding of the LGBT community
  • 2009: Received the Women in Film Crystal Award for her "excellent performance in film"
  • 2011: Received the Decade of Hotness Award at the Spike Guy's Choice Awards
  • 2014: Received the People Magazine Award for Performance of the Year by a film actress for her role in Cake
  • 2015: Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her role in Cake

Negative prices

  • 1997: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry for worst newcomer / wannabe film actress for She's the One (shared with Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer)
  • 2011: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actress in The Bail Cop and In Love With It
  • 2011: joint nomination with Gerard Butler for the Golden Raspberry as worst screen couple in The Bail Cop
  • 2012: joint nomination with Adam Sandler for the Golden Raspberry as worst screen couple in My Invented Wife
  • 2015: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry as the Raspberry Redeemer Prize for her (positive) performance in Cake

literature

  • Nancy Aniston: From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY 1999, ISBN 1-57392-772-4 .
  • Kim Etingoff: Jennifer Aniston: From Friends to Films. Mason Crest, Broomall, PA 2013, ISBN 978-1-4222-2480-9 .
  • Rachel Lynette: Jennifer Aniston. Lucent Books, Farmington Hills, MI 2010, ISBN 978-1-4205-0235-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Aniston  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rachel Lynette: Jennifer Aniston. Lucent Books, Farmington Hills, MI 2010, ISBN 978-1-4205-0235-0 , p. 12.
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