Jennifer Aniston started her career on the small screen, with parts in various TV shows that didn’t last very long. Even her first film was a made-for-TV movie called “Camp Cucamonga”. Her first real film role though, was in a horror film that would later go on to become a cult classic – “Leprechaun”. As the story is told however, this child of two actors didn’t think much of the film or the reviews it got when it was released, and she nearly quit acting because of it. Luckily, along came “Friends”, and so pop culture was made much richer by the haircut known as “The Rachel”.
Like all the really hot breakout artists, Jennifer took advantage of her fame and spent the hiatus between tapings breaking onto the big screen, first with a role in Edward Burns’ “She’s The One” with Burns and Cameron Diaz in 1996. Her fame on “Friends” was growing, and soon she was headlining “Picture Perfect” with Kevin Bacon in 1997. Another romantic comedy, 1998’s “The Object of My Affection” followed, and then a Mike Judge comedy, “Office Space”. Aniston then voiced the lead character’s mom in the animated film “The Iron Giant” to round out 1999.
She starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in 2001’s “Rock Star” before making an impact on the critics for her role in the 2002 indie “The Good Girl”. Another hit followed, this time at the box office, with the 2003 Jim Carrey vehicle “Bruce Almighty”. It was back to her staple of romantic comedies in 2004, with “Along Came Polly”, and in 2005 with “Rumor Has It”. She also co-starred with Clive Owen in the 2005 thriller “Derailed”, and then 2006 came with her highest grossing film after “Bruce Almighty”, which was “The Break-Up”, which coincidentally also coincided with her real break-up with her co-star on the film, Vince Vaughn.
Jennifer continues to be a valuable Hollywood commodity, 4 years after the “Friends” finale, and she is currently working on more films. You can that one of them is going to be a romantic comedy, but Jennifer has shown that she’s got the range to play other roles other than “the object of some guy’s affection” when she wants to, like the ensemble drama “Friends With Money, which came out at Sundance around the same time as “The Break-Up”.