Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston has well and truly left her Friends days behind her as she is the most successful of the TV show's cast as she made that leap onto the big screen.

Although she was making movies while she was with the TV show since Friends finished back in 2004 she has been able to concentrate solely on movies.

So with the release of her latest movie Love Happens this week FemaleFirst asks Friends... where are they now?

- Jennifer Aniston - Rachel Greene

We might as well start with the lovely Jennifer Aniston who has s string of box office hits since leaving the famous sit com.

She has established herself as a comedy actress and after the success of Bruce Almighty she went on to get the likes of Along Came Polly, Rumour Has It... and The Break Up under her belt.

She tried a change of genre in 2005 with Derailed but that was not met well by the critics and only just managed to make back it's budget at the box office.

She returned to the comedy genre of film and 2009 has been a great year for her with both Marley & Me and He's Just Not That Into You opening at number one at the U.S. box office.

After Love Happens she looks set to be kept busy as The Bounty and The Baster in the pipeline.

- Courteney Cox - Monica Gellar

Since leaving Friends Cox has spent much of her time focusing on her family, missing out on the role of Susan in Desperate Housewives due to her pregnancy.

While starring in independent movie November and cameoing in The Longest Yard TV is where she continued to find success.

Cox starred as Lucy Spiller, a cynical tabloid editor, in Dirt, a television drama for the FX network. Cox and her husband, David Arquette, were the executive producers of the series.

But the show was cancelled after series 2. She is currently working on Cougar Town which focuses on a recently divorced woman who reenters a dating scene filled with younger men while living with her 17-year old son.

In terms of movies she was back on the big screen alongside Adam Sandler and Bedtime Stories at the beginning of year and she will be back in Scream 4 which is expected to be released next year.

- Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay

We all remember Lisa as ditzy Phoebe but since leaving the show she has worked steadily in movies, having worked on Analyse This and The Opposite of Sex whilst still working on Friends.

Her biggest hit to date has been the adaptation of Cecilia Aherns novel P.S. I Love You, in which she took on the role of Denise Hennessey who helps Holly, played by Hilary Swank, get over the death of her husband Gerry.

And 2009 has been a very busy year for the actress with Hotel For Dogs, 17 Photos of Isabel and Bandslam so far this year.

And in the pipeline for the actress is Dirty Girl, a comedic story of the search for identity and the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.

She is also set to star in Easy A with Cam Gigandet and Malcolm McDowell.

- Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani

After playing Joey for twelve years he stayed in television when the show ended as the character of Joey received his own spin off show amazingly called Joey.

The series roughly picking up where Friends left off, with Joey at the beginning of the show making a move from New York to LA to proceed with his acting career.

But the show only latest for two seasons.But he currently has another TV show in the pipeline.

- David Schwimmer - Ross Gellar

Since the end of Friends back in 2004 Schwimmer has mixed and matched his work moving between movies, TV and theatre.

He made his Broadway debut back in 2006 with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, played the role of Lieutenant Barney Greenwald.

He followed this up with a movie Big Nothing, alongside Simon Pegg. It was directing that he tried his hand at next as he teamed up with Pegg once again for Run, Fat Boy Run.

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancee on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

The film was a critical and commercial hit and announced Schwimmer as a filmmaker. he returned to the Madagascar franchise in last year with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa where he voiced the character of Melman.

He is currently lending his voice to animation movie Rapunzel.

- Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

Matthew Perry continued to work in TV when Friends ended with new show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip before moving back to movies with Numb.

He enjoyed box office success earlier this year when he teamed up with teen heart-throb Zac Efron for 21 Again.

He is currently working on Down and Dirty Pictures.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw


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