ennifer Aniston’s role as Rachel on Friends propelled her to international fame.

She struck what some are calling “Hollywood Gold” with the show, and at age 54, she’s still going strong in the industry.

As a member of the cast of “Friends,” she ran the risk of being pigeonholed. But Aniston was able to emerge from her “Rachel” shell. She has recently received acclaim for her work in the drama The Morning Show.

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Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, California, a town where show business runs deep in her family. Her parents, John Aniston and Nancy Dow, were both famous actors; he was a soap opera superstar, and she followed in her mother’s footsteps.

Jennifer Aniston – early life

In general, Aniston’s upbringing in New York City was positive. But something changed at the age of nine. Jennifer and her brother John were home alone when their father suddenly disappeared.

Jennifer Aniston’s father and daughter had an ebb and flow relationship. Aniston’s father abandoned her, her brother, and their mother, but she has no ill will against him.

“There are people in my life that are like, ‘How do you even talk to that guy?’ But what’s the point of holding on to [anger]? That’s so toxic,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in 2015. “We’re human beings. Human beings make mistakes. Human beings are not perfect. And by not forgiving someone, it’s not allowing human beings to evolve and become better people.”

Jennifer Aniston is loved and respected by her coworkers and has a fulfilled life. Even though it’s completely different, she claims that it has its origins in her upbringing.

Jennifer Aniston, as Sandra Bullock put it during their interview for Interview Magazine, “really have a way of pushing joy and positivity.” She posed the question to Jennifer, “what is it that allows you to stay buoyant and keep from getting discouraged when things don’t go the right way?”

“I think that it comes from growing up in a household that was destabilized and felt unsafe, watching adults being unkind to each other, and witnessing certain things about human behavior that made me think: “I don’t want to do that, I don’t want to be that,” Aniston said.

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel on ‘Friends’

Jennifer Aniston, like many others, aspired to be an actor. She majored in drama at New York’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Music, Art, and Performing Arts.

Jennifer Aniston moved right from college to Hollywood to pursue her acting career in 1987. Her early career seemed to be on the up and up, with guest starring roles on shows like Molloy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and The Edge. Jennifer Aniston, however, was blissfully unaware that the launch of her career-defining work was imminent.

Friends, a fresh new sitcom, cast Aniston in 1994. The series, which followed the lives of six friends in New York City, was an instant hit.

Aniston played pampered Rachel, who boldly decided to move away from her wealthy family and begin a new life in the city with her new friends. Stage 24 at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, became famous over the show’s ten years on the air and 236 episodes.

The finale was seen by more than 50 million people in the United States alone. Like her co-stars Courtney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Pheobe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler), and David Schwimmer (Ross), Jennifer Aniston became a household name thanks to her work on “Friends.”

Aniston and her co-stars on Friends made a lot of money because the show was so successful. During the show’s last seasons, the actors reportedly made $1 million per episode.

This is how much money the ‘Friends’ cast still earns today

The cast is reported to get around $20 million annually from repeats, even though it has been 19 years since the series’ final original airing. According to The Independent, they receive 2% of the show’s syndication earnings. According to reports, Netflix spent between $80 and $100 million to get the show’s streaming rights through 2019.

The Friends cast members were all memorable in their own right. Rachel, played by Aniston, underwent the most dramatic change over the course of the series, becoming a fashionista and employee at Bloomingdale’s.

Moreover, Friends had a significant cultural impact, with Rachel’s hairdo becoming very popular, the radio constantly playing the theme tune, and everyone attempting to deliver a punch line in Chandler Bing’s style.

Jennifer Aniston became a household name because to her role as Rachel Green on Friends, and in 2002 she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

She also took home a Golden Globe in 2003 for Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical.

Sure, Jennifer Aniston became recognized all over the world, but the most important thing is that she made five lifelong friends.

“We really did have so much fun together,” she told the Hollywood Reporter.

Emotional reunion

“I remember that was one of the things when we were young and dumb and renegotiating, one of the [studio’s] threats was, ‘Well, we don’t need all six of you. We can do this with four of you.’ We were like, ‘What? You can? You can get rid of Rachel or Joey or who?’ Then it was like, ‘No they can’t, wake up.’”

The show’s six original cast members got back together for an HBO special called Friends: The Reunion last year. The actors and audience had a night they would never forget, but tensions were high. Whenever things became too intense on production, Jennifer Aniston had to leave.

“I think we were just so naive walking into it, thinking, ‘How fun is this going to be? They’re putting the sets back together, exactly as they were.’ Then you get there, and it’s like, ‘Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here,’” Aniston explained. “And it just took me by surprise because it was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous, and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?’”

“It was all very jarring, and, of course, you’ve got cameras everywhere, and I’m already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say, so I had to walk out at certain points,” she added. “I don’t know how they cut around it.”