Cox first gained attention as the girl Bruce Springsteen pulled onto the stage in the video for “Dancing in the Dark” in 1984, per The Star Tribune. Guest-starring roles on shows including “The Love Boat” and “Murder She Wrote” soon followed.
Her first recurring role was on “Family Ties” as the girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton from 1987 to 1989, per IMDb.
These days, Cox is reprising her role as Gale Weathers for the fifth “Scream” film, which is set to be released in January 2022. She’s mom to 17-year-old Coco Arquette and has been dating Snow Patrol lead singer Johnny McDaid since late 2013, per The Mirror.
Courteney Cox has packed a lot of living into her 56 years. Let’s took a look at the transformation she’s made since she was just a little girl making her First Holy Communion.
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Courteney Cox was born on June 15, 1964, in Birmingham, Alabama to Courteney and Richard Cox. She is the youngest of four kids, with two older sisters and a brother, per EightiesKids.com. She grew up in Mountain Brook, Alabama, which is one of the most exclusive and wealthiest towns in the U.S., per AL.com.
Cox’s parents divorced when she was young, and her mother married Hunter Copeland, uncle of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland and music manager Ian Copeland, per Geneanet.
After graduating from Mountain Brook High School, she enrolled at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., with had plans to become an architect. However, she landed a modeling contract and dropped out of college to pursue that, per Biography.com.
Her modeling contract led to being cast in a few commercials and to a 1984 guest appearance in the role of Bunny on “As the World Turns,” per IMDb.