Before Courtney Cox became our favorite friend she was going to be an architecture or interior design while she studied at Mount Vernon College. Thank god after a year she dropped out and became a model. She was signed with the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency. She appeared on covers of “Tiger Beat” and “Little Miss”. Soon she moved on to commercials for Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and Tampax. She was the first woman to ever say “period” on television for a Tampax commercial. On breaks she took acting lessons. In 1984 she was picked to be in the Bruce Springsteen video “Dancer in the Dark”. In 1987 she got the break of the life time when out of thousands of young women she was picked to be Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend in “Family Ties”. After “Family Ties” ended Courtney went on to do minor role in movies. In 1994 she starred along side Jim Carrey in “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” which turned out to be a surprise hit. That same year she starred in a little mid-season replacement show called “Friends”. When Cox auctioned, she auditioned for the role of Rachel, she got the role of Monica. The show has been going on for years. In 1996 Courtney took the role of Gale Weathers in the low budget horror film “Scream”. The movie went on to gross more than 100 million dollars and spawned two sequels. In those movies she met co-star David Arquette. On June 12th 1999 they married. When she announced in September, 1999 that her new legal and professional surname would become Courtney Cox Arquette, the cast and producers of her Friends TV show also added "Arquette" to their own names in the opening credits of the 1999 season's premiere episode.