Courtney Bass Cox (previously Courtney Cox Marquette; birthed June 15, 1964) is an American starlet. She obtained acknowledgment for her starring role as Monica Geller on the NBC comedy Close friends (1994-- 2004), for which she obtained seven Screen Actors Guild Award elections, of which she won one. She obtained additional recognition for starring as Gale Weathers in the horror film franchise Scream (1996-- existing). Furthermore, she additionally starred as Lauren Miller in the NBC sitcom Household Ties (1987-- 1989), Lucy Spilled in the FX dramatization collection Dirt (2007-- 2008), and also as Jules Cobb in the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town (2009-- 2015), the lattermost of which earned her nominations at the Golden Globe Awards as well as the Critics' Option Honors. Cox's other films include the action fantasy Masters of the Universe (1987), the comedy Ace Ventura: Animal Investigative (1994), the animated comedy Barnyard (2006), the dream comedy Going to bed Stories (200...