Courtney Cox Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Courtney Cox Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Courteney Bass Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964) is an American actress and former fashion model, best known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television series Friends. She now plays Lucy Spiller on the popular drama Dirt, on FX Networks, an executive editor of two tabloid magazines.After her parents's divorce, she became a rebellious teen. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she received her first taste of modelling. She appeared in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation, she left Alabama to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modelling career in New York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency. While modelling, she attended acting classes. Her first big break, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video Dancing in The Dark . She later starred alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful sitcom Friends (1994). It was this part that turned her into an international superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination. In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror,comedy Scream (1996). It also led to her meeting actor husband David Arquette.