Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born on February 11, 1969,[6] in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California[7] to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow.[7] Her father is Greek and a native of Crete, while her mother was born in New York City. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant,[8] and her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.[9] Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.[7] Aniston's godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father's best friends.[7]

As a child, Aniston lived in Greece for a year with her family. They moved to Eddystone, Pennsylvania, then to New York City.[7] Despite her father's television career, Aniston was discouraged from watching TV, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she was six, Aniston began attending the Rudolf Steiner School, a Waldorf educational school that applied the Rudolf Steiner philosophy.[10] During that time, Aniston's father and mother split when she was nine years old.[3]

Meanwhile, after discovering acting at eleven while attending Rudolf Steiner,[3] Aniston enrolled and graduated at Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the school's drama society.