Happy Birthday ‘Monica’: Here are Courteney Cox’s Top 5 movies and television shows of all times
Our Monica Geller turns 57 today!
Best known for her humorous role in NBC’s iconic sitcom ‘Friends’, Courteney Cox is an American actress, producer and director, born on June 15, 1964, in Birmingham, Alabama, married to David Arquette from 1999-2013, both of whom share a 17 year old daughter named Coco Arquette.
Cox rose to early recognition by featuring in films like, ‘Masters of the Universe’ in 1987, ‘Cocoon: The Return’ and ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’ in 1998.
The actress received her breakthrough with ‘Friends’, which became the most liked and viewed award winning television series of the time, making Cox one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood.
As the diva is celebrating her 57th birthday today, here’s revisiting some of her best movies and tv shows of all times-
#1 ‘Scream’ Franchise
Courteney is also well known for her portrayal in this horror franchise, along with Gale Weathers.
Surrounding the main masked character, named as ‘Ghostface’, the franchise has successfully completed four slasher movies and a television series, full of murder mysteries and drama.
#2 Shaking The Tree
A 1990 comedy, this one revolves around the carefree lives of a group of young friends, in their 20s, who spend most of their time together, hanging out and doing fun activities.
It is not before the Christmas Eve, that they realize, it being a high time to move on with their lives and achieve something exceptional as their career. Cox playes one of the friends, named Kathleen.
#3 Mr. Destiny
Alongside actors like Michael Caine, Jon Lovitz, and Rene Russo, Cox plays the character of ‘Jewel Jagger’, in this 1990 fantasy comedy, which follows the dwindling life of an entrepreneur, who is guided by a bartender on how he could be in a different place, somewhere better in life.
#4 November
In this 2004 thriller mystery, Courteney plays a photographer named Sophie Jacobs, whose boyfriend unfortunately gets murdered one night, in what happens to be a store robbery.
The story follows her journey of discovering this incident while waiting for him in the car, right outside the store and how she investigates into the case further, with the help of her college exhibition photographs.
#5 Cocoon: The Return
One of Cox’s initial movies when she debuted as an actor, this 1988 sequel is a Sci-fi, comedy drama, that continues five years from where the original film wrapped up, and revolves around the story of a group of friendly aliens who descend to Earth from their planet Anterea, with a motive to rescue their children, who had been left back when they first visited the Earth. Cox plays the role of a scientist named Sara, who joins them in their rescue plan.
