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Six young actors gathered on a Hollywood soundstage on may 4, 1994. Culled from hundreds of young actors and actresses who had read for what industry buzz had as the hottest new television series since MASH, the six eyed each other warily, made small talk, shared smokes outside the stage door and revealed in the good fortune of being chisen for the pilot for a new series called six of one.
“That day was really strange,” recalled the hopeful Matt Perry.
“I was kind of like, ‘Hi, I don’t know who you are, but hopefully we’ll be working together for the next 12,000 years.”
Only one, a young woman named Courteney Cox, had had any solid success. She had played Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend on Family Ties and Jim Carrey’s girlfriend in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
The producers of Six Of One had her in mind to play Rachel Green -  though Courteney intuited that she’d make a better Monica Gellar.

After 19 years of marriage, Cox's parents, Richard, a building contractor, and her mother, Courteney, a homemaker, divorce. She lives with her mother and her three older siblings, a brother and two sisters, in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Cox begins working for the Ford Modeling Agency. She appears on the covers of teen magazines Tiger Beat and Young Miss before moving to Washington, D.C., to major in architecture at Mount Vernon College. After one year, she drops out and returns to New York to continue modeling.
At an audition for director Brian de Palma, Cox lands the memorable part of a Bruce Springsteen fan in the singer's music video "Dancing in the Dark." She is paid $350 for Springsteen to pluck her from the audience at a concert and dance with her on stage.

In a commercial for Tampax tampons, Cox becomes the first person to use the word "period" in a biological sense on TV in the U.S. She also lands bit parts on TV shows, including As the World Turns and The Love Boat, before nabbing her first role in a major motion picture, Masters of the Universe, a live-action feature film based on a popular cartoon series.