Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943 — February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

Early years and education

Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964) and philosophy (B.A. 1965) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in computer science at Pennsylvania State University. His first computer program, a music program, was part of his master's thesis.

Raskin later enrolled in a graduate music program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but stopped to teach art, photography and computer science there, working as an assistant professor from 1970 until 1974. He occasionally wrote for computer publications, such as ''Dr. Dobb's Journal''.

Career at Apple

Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire. Steve Jobs hired his firm, Bannister and Crun, which was named for two characters in the BBC radio comedy ''The Goon Show'', to write the Apple II BASIC Programming Manual. In January 1978 Raskin joined Apple as Manager of Publications, the company's 31st employee. For some time he continued as Director of Publications and New Product Review, and also worked on packaging and other issues.

From his responsibility for documentation and testing, Raskin had great influence on early engineering projects. Because the Apple II only displayed uppercase characters on a 40-column screen, his department used the Polymorphic Systems 8813 (an Intel-8080-based machine running CP/M), to write documentation; this spurred the development of an 80-column display card and a suitable text editor for the Apple II. His experiences testing Applesoft BASIC inspired him to design a competing product, called Notzo BASIC, which was never implemented. When Steve Wozniak developed the first disk drives for the Apple II, Raskin went back to his contacts at UCSD and encouraged them to port the UCSD P-System operating system (incorporating a version of the Pascal programming language) to it, which Apple later licensed and shipped as Apple Pascal.

Through this time Raskin continually wrote memos about how the personal computer could become a true consumer appliance. While the Apple III was under development in 1978 and 79, Raskin was lobbying for Apple to create a radically different kind of computer that was designed from the start to be easy to use. In ''Computers by the Millions'', he stated that expandable computers like the Apple II were too complex, and development was difficult due to the unknown nature of the machine the program ran on. The machine he envisioned was very different from the Macintosh that was eventually released and had much more in common with PDAs than modern GUI-based machines.

Raskin started the Macintosh project in 1979 to implement some of these ideas. He later hired his former student Bill Atkinson from UCSD to work at Apple, along with Andy Hertzfeld and Burrell Smith from the Apple Service Department, which was located in the same building as the Publications Department. The machine was similar in power to the Apple II and included a small 9-inch black-and-white character display built into a small case with a floppy disk. A number of basic applications were built into the machine, selectable by pressing function keys. The machine also included logic that would understand user intentions and switch programs on the fly. For instance, if the user simply started typing text it would switch into editor mode, and if they typed numbers it would switch to calculator mode. In many cases these switches would be largely invisible to the user.

In 1981 Steve Jobs directed his attention to Raskin's Macintosh project, intending to marry the Xerox PARC-inspired GUI-based Lisa design to Raskin's appliance-computing, "computers-by-the-millions" concept. Raskin takes credit for introducing Jobs and other Apple employees to the PARC concepts. Raskin also claims to have had continued direct input into the eventual Mac design, including the decision to use a one-button mouse as part of the Apple interface, a departure from the Xerox PARC's 3-button mouse. Others, including Larry Tesler, acknowledge his advocacy for a one-button mouse but say that it was a decision reached simultaneously by others at Apple who had a stronger say on the issue. Raskin later stated that were he to redesign the mouse it would have three clearly labeled buttons—two buttons on top marked "Select" and "Activate", and a "Grab" button on the side that could be used by squeezing the mouse. This description nearly fits the Apple Mighty Mouse, which is available now. It has the three described buttons (two invisible), but they are assigned to different functions than Raskin specified for his own interface and can be customized.

Pioneering the information appliance

Raskin left Apple in 1982 and formed ''Information Appliance, Inc.'' to implement the concepts of his original Macintosh concept. The first product was the SwyftCard, a firmware card for the Apple II containing an integrated application suite, also released on a disk as SwyftWare. Information Appliance later shipped the Swyft as a stand-alone laptop computer. Raskin licensed this design to Canon, which shipped a similar product as the Canon Cat. Released in 1987, the unit had an innovative interface that attracted much interest but it did not become a commercial success. Raskin claimed that its failure was due in some part to Steve Jobs, who successfully pitched Canon on the NeXT Computer at about the same time. It has also been suggested that Canon canceled the Cat due to internal rivalries within its divisions.

Raskin also wrote a book, ''The Humane Interface'' (Addison-Wesley, 2000), in which he developed his ideas about human-computer interfaces (see ''Cognetics'').

Raskin was a long-time member of BAYCHI, the Bay-Area Computer-Human Interface group, a professional organization for human-interface designers. He presented papers on his own work, reviewed the human interfaces of various consumer products (such as a BMW car he'd been asked to review), and discussed the work of his colleagues in various companies and universities.

At the start of the new millennium, Raskin undertook the building of a new computer interface based on his 30 years of work and research, called The Humane Environment, THE. On January 1, 2005, he renamed it Archy. It is a system incarnating his concepts of the humane interface, by using open source elements within his rendition of a ZUI or Zooming User Interface. In the same period Raskin accepted an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago's Computer Science Department and, with Leo Irakliotis, started designing a new curriculum on humane interfaces and computer enterprises.

His work is being extended and carried on by his son Aza Raskin at Humanized, a company that was started shortly after Raskin's death to continue his legacy. Humanized released Enso, a linguistic command-line interface, which is based on Jef's work and dedicated in his memory. In early 2008, Humanized became part of Mozilla,.

His ideas still have strong currency. Also, while the Archy project never managed to include a functional ZUI, a third party developed a commercial application called Raskin inspired by the same Zoomworld ZUI idea.

Cognetics

Raskin expanded the meaning of the term ''cognetics'' in his book ''The Humane Interface'' to mean "the ergonomics of the mind." According to Raskin Center, "Cognetics brings interface design out of the mystic realm of guruism, transforming it into an engineering discipline with a rigorous theoretical framework."

The term cognetics had earlier been coined and trademarked by Charles Kreitzberg in 1982 when he started Cognetics Corporation, one of the first user experience design companies. It is also used to describe educational programs intended to foster thinking skills in grades 3-12 (US) and for Cognetics, Inc. an economic research firm founded by David L. Birch, a Professor at MIT.

Raskin discouraged using the informal term intuitive in user interface design, claiming that easy to use interfaces are often due to exposure to previous, similar systems, thus the term 'familiar' should be preferred. Aiming for "intuitive" interfaces (based on reusing existing skills with interaction systems) could lead designers to discard a better design solution only because it would require a novel approach.

Outside interests

While best-known as a computer scientist, Raskin also had other interests. He conducted the San Francisco Chamber Opera Society and played various instruments, including the organ and the recorder. His artwork was displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He received a patent for airplane wing construction, and designed and marketed radio controlled model gliders. He was said to be an accomplished archer, target shooter, bicycle racer and an occasional model race car driver. He was a passionate musician and composer, publishing a series of collected recorder studies using the pseudonym of Aabel Aabius. In his later years he also wrote free-lance articles for Macintosh magazines, such as ''MacHomeJournal'' as well as many modeling magazines, ''Forbes'', ''Wired'', and computing journals. One of his most favorite pastimes was to play music with his children. He would accompany them on the piano while they played or sang while going through old fake-books passed down from his father. They would also routinely improvise together.

Raskin owned a small company, "Jef's Friends", which made and sold model-airplane kits through hobby shops. Somehow, he managed to turn most of his hobbies into profitable businesses.

One of Raskin's instruments was the organ. At his home he played an "army field organ", a portable reed organ designed for military chaplains, and he once bought a pipe organ from a convent in Belmont for the lobby at Apple. This was quickly rejected by Steve Jobs who had originally approved of the purchase. For at least the last 8 years of his life he played on a small pipe organ that he purchased in Switzerland. It arrived in the States in pieces and was put together by friends and family under his direction. Following the lead of Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth (with whom Raskin has played) who had designed his house around his own pipe organ, he designed a house in Brisbane, California to contain the organ, but the building project failed due to lack of a thorough soil analysis. The house project collapsed, and the project dissolved in a flurry of litigation. Then, Raskin accepted the job at Apple Computer as employee number 31. He persuaded Steve Jobs to reserve space in one of Apple's new buildings, "Bandley 3", for the organ to be installed and actually played. After some months, the convent asked Raskin when he actually wanted to haul the organ away. When Jobs reneged on his word, Raskin traveled to the convent with a San Jose Mercury News reporter to inspect the organ. Raskin, the reporter, and several Publications department employees trooped through the nuns' dormitory to reach the organ loft above the convent chapel. One employee, a soprano, tested the chapel's acoustics by singing Schubert's ''Ave Maria'', and a few days later an article appeared describing the dilemma of a computer executive who owned a pipe organ and had no place to put it. A local church offered to buy the organ, at a modest loss, and the convent was able to install their new pipe organ. Curiously, a few years later, Raskin had a house big enough. On the day of Apple's IPO, Raskin bought a hilltop lot on Montebello Road with a small house on it, then sold his current house in the Cupertino flatlands. He built a much larger house, with an attached concert hall, whose acoustics had been designed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman. This hall was used for a variety of purposes, ranging from chamber-music concerts to vacation slide shows.

Personal life and later years

Jef Raskin married Linda S. Blum in 1982. They had three children together—Aza, Aviva, and Aenea, with honorary/surrogate siblings Rebecca Fureigh, and Jenna Mandis.

He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2004 and died in Pacifica, California on February 26, 2005, at age 61.

See also

Information appliance

References

External links

Audio interviews with Jef Raskin and photos from various periods of his life

Articles from Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh

History of the Apple PASCAL "Syntax" Poster designed by Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs

List of Jef Raskin articles

Jef Raskin - Userati

Publications by Jef Raskin from Interaction-Design.org

Jef Raskin, interviewed in ''MacUser'', October 2004

Jef Raskin, interviewed in ''The Guardian'', late 2004.

Jef Raskin, Apple GUI & Human Interface Pioneer Dies

Jef Raskin, polymath, inventor of the Information Appliance, Father of the Mac - RIP

Life of Jef Raskin

JefRaskin.com

Raskin Family Press Statement, February 27, 2005.

Joy of Tech tribute to Jef Raskin

Holes in the Histories

Computers by the Millions, An Apple Document from 1979.

Programming Languages for the Humanities 1971 article by Raskin

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Doutzen Kroes (; born January 23, 1985) is a Dutch model and currently one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. She started to work for the brand in 2004, became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2008 and is currently considered one of the world's top earning supermodels.

Early life

Kroes was born in the town of Eastermar (Dutch: Oostermeer), in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. As a young girl, Kroes aspired to be a professional speed skater.

Modeling career

Kroes has been featured on the covers of ''Time'', ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Seventeen'', ''Elle'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Glamour'', ''W'', ''Avantgarde'', ''Dazed & Confused'', and ''Numéro''. She also appears regularly in the Victoria's Secret catalog and walked the runway of the company's fashion show in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Kroes's campaigns include Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Versace, Valentino, Blumarine and Calvin Klein for both their 'White' label and their fragrance 'Eternity'. In 2005, Kroes was selected as "Model of The Year" on Vogue.com by readers. She was presented on the May 2007 cover of American ''Vogue'' as one of the “World’s Next Top Models” next to Chanel Iman among others. Along with several of these models, she appeared in the 2008 Pirelli Calendar.

In 2006, a Frisian documentary about a week in Kroes' life as a model was released. It documented Kroes at Milan Fashion Week and her thinking about the modeling industry. Director was J.J.M. Jansen.

In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $1.5 million in the previous twelve months, ''Forbes ''named Kroes fourteenth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In April 2008, she was in fifth position, with an estimated income of $6 million. In May 2009 and May 2010 Forbes named Kroes fifth again in the list of the World's 15 Top- Earning Supermodels.

Kroes is in the official Frisian provincial campaign for the Frisian language, her mother tongue.

Doutzen Kroes received the Lifetime Achievement Award, part of the Dutch Model Awards, in Amsterdam on May 12, 2009. The jury praised her achievements at her age.

At the end of August 2008, Victoria's Secret confirmed to ''People'' magazine that Kroes was to be the newest Victoria's Secret Angel. Her first campaign as the brand's newest Angel is "Supermodel Obsession". In September 2009, she signed to be the new face for Swiss cashmere label Repeat for two years.

There is a wax figure of Kroes in the Amsterdam branch of Madame Tussaud's wax museum.

As of November 2009, she writes a monthly column about her life for the Dutch edition of 'Marie Claire.' She has stopped writing as of July 2010.

Currently, she is signed by DNA Model Management.

In February 2010, Kroes returned to the catwalk during fashion week for Prada with fellow Angels Alessandra Ambrosio and Miranda Kerr. Prada was praised by former editor-in-chief of ''Glamour'', ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Marie Claire'' magazines, Bonnie Fuller in her blog for using a curvy model such as Kroes for the fashion show.

Personal life

Kroes has been romantically linked to hip-hop DJ Greg Andrews (DJ Ruckus), appearing with him in the May 2009 issue of American ''Vogue'' in an article entitled "Meet the Boyfriends", on supermodels and their romantic partners. However, on August 20, 2009, Kroes admitted that their relationship had ended and that she was single.

After her break-up with Andrews, she started dating Dutch DJ Sunnery James. The two were first spotted together at the Veronica Sunset Grooves Festival in Hoek van Holland. On July 14, 2010 they announced on the Dutch television program RTL Boulevard that they were expecting their first child together in January 2011. On November 7, 2010, she and James married in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. On January 21, 2011, Kroes gave birth to a son, Phyllon Joy Gorré.

References

External links

Profile at YES Model Management

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Courteney Bass Cox (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress, who achieved fame for her role as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom ''Friends''. Cox has also starred in ''Dirt'' and the ''Scream'' series of movies. She currently stars in the ABC sitcom ''Cougar Town'', for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination.

Early life

Cox was raised in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Mountain Brook, the daughter of businessman Richard Lewis Cox (January 28, 1931 – September 3, 2001) and his wife Courteney (née Bass, later Copeland). She has two older sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother, Richard, Jr. Her parents divorced in 1974 and her mother then married businessman Hunter Copeland (uncle to music promoter and business manager Ian Copeland). After graduating from Mountain Brook High School, Cox left for Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., but did not complete her architecture course, opting instead to pursue a career in modeling and acting.

Career

Early career

Cox appeared in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" as a girl pulled onstage to dance with Springsteen. Cox was the first person to use the word "period" on U.S. television to refer to menstruation in a 1985 advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons. Her early film roles include ''Masters of the Universe'' (1987) and ''Cocoon: The Return'' (1988). Her early television work includes a starring role in the short-lived television series ''Misfits of Science'' (1985), and later a recurring role (1987–89) on the TV series ''Family Ties'' as Lauren Miller, the girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox). She had a supporting role as Jewel, the hard-as-nails assistant to James Belushi's character, in the 1990 fantasy film ''Mr. Destiny''. In 1994, shortly before the debut of the sitcom, ''Friends,'' Cox appeared with Jim Carrey in the film ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' and on ''Seinfeld'' in "The Wife" episode as Jerry's girlfriend named Meryl. In 1995, she was cast in Toad the Wet Sprocket's music video "Good Intentions". The song is also on the Friends Soundtrack.

''Friends''

Later in 1994, Cox was asked to audition for the part of Rachel Green on a new sitcom called ''Friends.'' She was cast as the character Monica Geller instead. At first the most famous cast member of the new show, Cox joined fellow castmates Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing) and David Schwimmer (Ross Geller) for what would become her most famous role, lasting for 10 seasons until 2004. According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2005), Cox (along with her female costars) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the final two seasons of Friends.

Between seasons five and six, Cox married David Arquette and changed her name to Courteney Cox Arquette. An in-joke reference to this is made in the opening credits of the episode "The One After Vegas", where the rest of the cast and executive producers have "Arquette" added to their names. The dedication "For Courteney and David, who did get married"—a reference to Monica and Chandler's decision not to marry in the episode—appears during the fade out to the tag scene.

Film career

During her time on ''Friends'', Cox appeared in the high-profile Hollywood films ''Scream'' (1996), ''Scream 2'' (1997), and ''Scream 3'' (2000), as the determined and driven reporter Gale Weathers. She met her husband, David Arquette, who played her on-screen love interest Dwight "Dewey" Riley, while filming the first ''Scream'' film. Both Cox and her husband David reprised their respective roles from the ''Scream'' trilogy in 2011's ''Scream 4''. The movie was released in theaters April 15, 2011.

Her other films include ''The Runner'', ''3000 Miles to Graceland'' and ''The Shrink Is In''. In late 2003, Cox and Arquette produced one season of the reality television series ''Mix It Up.'' The lifestyle show, which aired on the We cable channel, struggled with low ratings and was not renewed for a second season.

Later work

After her ''Friends'' role, Cox was producer Marc Cherry's first choice to be offered a starring role as Susan Mayer on ''Desperate Housewives''. However, Cox was unavailable due to her pregnancy and the role went to Teri Hatcher. A couple of years later, Cox signed a deal with ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television) to star in her own series. Since ''Friends'', Cox has primarily concentrated on her family but has starred in the independent film ''November'' (2005) which had a limited theatrical release, costarred with Tim Allen in the critically derided ''Zoom'', and cameoed in the big budget remake of ''The Longest Yard'' as the girlfriend of Adam Sandler's character. She supplied her voice for the animated film ''Barnyard''. A ''Friends'' reunion film was rumored to be in production; following the success of ''Sex and the City: The Movie'', but this has been denied by Warner Bros. and others.

In 2007, Cox starred as Lucy Spiller, a cynical tabloid editor, in ''Dirt'', a television drama for FX. Cox and her husband David Arquette were the executive producers of the series. According to Cox, the series was canceled after the second season in 2008. In July 2008, ''Entertainment Weekly'' announced that Cox had signed on to star in a three-episode arc for the television series ''Scrubs''. In her third episode, she told Dr. Cox that Cox was "a ridiculous name", in reference to her own.

In 2009, Cox began her roles as the star of the single-camera comedy series on ABC called ''Cougar Town'', playing a newly single 40-year-old mother on the hunt for new experiences. The show's third season will premiere in November 2011.

Personal life

Cox's significant previous boyfriends include her step-cousin, the rock promoter Ian Copeland and a long-term relationship with actor Michael Keaton from 1989 to 1995. Cox also dated singer Adam Duritz of Counting Crows and appeared in their music video for the song "A Long December" in 1997.

Cox married actor David Arquette on June 12, 1999. On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Coco Riley Arquette. Jennifer Aniston is Coco's godmother. On October 11, 2010, it was announced that the actress and her husband had separated, though they still maintain a close friendship and business relationship, and as of March 2011, are said to be working on their marriage together. Cox is a brown belt in Karate and can play the piano and drums.

Filmography

+Film	! Year	! Film	! Role	Notes
1987	''Down Twisted''	Tarah
1987		Julia "Julie" Winston
1988	''Cocoon: The Return''	Sara
1990	''Mr. Destiny''	Jewel Jagger
1991		Lisa Roberts
1992		Kathleen
1993	''''	C "Carrie" Davenport
1994	''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective''	Melissa Robinson
1996		Gale Weathers
1997	''Commandments''	Rachel Luce
1997	''Scream 2''	Gale Weathers
1999	''''	Karina
1999	''Alien Love Triangle''	Alice Connor	short
2000	''Scream 3''	Gale Weathers
2001	''3000 Miles to Graceland''	Cybil Waingrow
2001	''''	Samantha Crumb
2001		Lily "Lillian"
2004		Sophie Jacobs
2005	''''	Lena	Uncredited cast
2006		Daisy the Cow	Voice role
2006
2006	''''	Cynthia	Also film producer
2008	''''	Cece	Short film
2008		Wendy
2011	''Scream 4''	Gale Weathers Riley

+Television	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1984	''As the World Turns''	Bunny
1985	''Code Name: Foxfire''	Flight Attendant	Uncredited role NBC TV movie
1985–1986	''Misfits of Science''	Gloria Dinallo	16 episodes
1986	''''		Episode: Dare Devil/Picture Me As a Spy/Sleeper
1986	''Sylvan in Paradise''	Lucy Apple	NBC TV pilot
1986	''Murder, She Wrote''	Carol Bannister	Episode: Death Stalks the Big Top
1987	''If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium''	Hana Wyshocki	NBC TV movie
1987–1989	''Family Ties''	Lauren Miller	21 episodes
1988		Nora Bundy	NBC TV movie
1989	''Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer''	Jacquie Kimberly	TV movie
1989	''Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again''	Marie-Frederique "Freddy" de Lancel	CBS miniseries
1990	''Curiosity Kills''	Gwen	NBC TV movie
1991	''Morton & Hayes''	Princess Lucy "Lucille"	Episode: Oafs Overboard
1992	''Battling for Baby''	Katherine	CBS TV movie
1992		Alisha	Episode: Come and Knock on Our Door
1993	''''	Gabriella Easden
1994	''Seinfeld''	Meryl	Episode: The Wife
1994–2004	''Friends''	Monica Geller	236 episodes
1995	''Sketch Artist II: Hands that See''	Emmy
1995	''Saturday Night Live''	Host
1999	''Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child''	Emerald Salt Pork	Voice roleEpisode: The Three Little Pigs
2007–2008		Lucille "Lucy" Spiller	20 episodes
2009		Taylor Maddox	3 episodes
2009	Web Therapy	Serena Duvall	3 episodes
2009–present	''Cougar Town''	Jules Cobb

Awards and nominations

{|class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Award ! Category ! Title of work ! Result |- |1995 |Golden Apple Award |Female Discovery of the Year | | |- | 1995 |People's Choice Award |Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series |Friends | |- |1996 |Screen Actors Guild Awards |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- |1997 |Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards |Favorite Television Actress |Friends | |- |1998 |Blockbuster Entertainment Award |Favorite Actress – Horror |Scream 2 | |- | 1998 |Saturn Award |Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture |Scream 2 | |- |1999 |American Comedy Award |Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series |Friends | |- | 1999 |Screen Actors Guild Awards |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- | 2000 |Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards |Favorite Television Friends |Friends | |- | 2000 |Screen Actors Guild Award |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- | 2000 |Teen Choice Award |Film – Choice Chemistry |Scream 3 | |- | 2000 |TV Guide Awards |Editor's Choice |Friends | |- | 2001 |Screen Actors Guild Award |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- | 2001 |Blockbuster Entertainment Award |Favorite Actress – Horror |Scream 3 | |- | 2002 |Teen Choice Awards |Choice TV Actress, Comedy |Friends | |- | 2002 |Screen Actors Guild Award |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- | 2003 |Teen Choice Awards |Choice TV Actress, Comedy |Friends | |- | 2003 |Screen Actors Guild Award |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- |2004 |Screen Actors Guild Award |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Friends | |- |2005 |Teen Choice Awards |Choice Movie Hissy Fit |The Longest Yard | |- |2006 |TV Land Award |Most Wonderful Wedding |Friends | |- |2007 |TV Land Award |Break Up That Was So Bad It Was Good |Family Ties | |- |2009 |Golden Globe Awards |Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical |Cougar Town | |- |2009 |People's Choice Awards |Favorite New Comedy Series |Cougar Town | |- | 2010 |Streamy Award |Best Guest Star In A Web Series |Web Therapy | |- | 2010 |People's Choice Awards |Favourite TV Comedy Actress |Cougar Town | |- | 2010 |TV Guide Awards |Courteney Cox To Be Honored By Women In Film Foundation | | |- | 2010 | Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards | Lucy Award | | Recipient |}

References

External links

Collection of interviews (1995–1999)

Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Actors from Alabama Category:American female models Category:American film actors Category:American television actors Category:People from Birmingham, Alabama Category:American voice actors Category:American karateka Category:Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners

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