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Characters Of Friends
The
series
featured
six
main
characters
throughout
its
run,
with
many other characters recurring throughout all ten
seasons.
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Jennifer Aniston portrays
Rachel Greene
, a fashion
enthusiast
and Monica Geller's best
friend from childhood. Rachel first
moves in with Monica in season one
after nearly marrying Barry
Farber
whom
she
realizes
she
does
not
love.
Rachel
and
Ross
Geller
are
later involved in an
on-again-off-again
relationship
throughout
the
series.
Rachel
dates
other
men
during
the
series,
such
as an Italian neighbor, Paolo in season one, her
client
Joshua
Bergin
in
season
four,
her
assistant
Tag
in
season
seven,
and J
oey Tribbiani in season
ten. Rachel’s first job is as a
waitress
at
the
coffeehouse
Central
Perk,
but
she
later
becomes
an
assistant
buyer
at
Bloomingdale's
in
season
three,
and
a
buyer
at Ralph Lauren in season five. Rachel
and Ross have a daughter
named
Emma
in
One
Where
Rachel
Has
a
Baby,
Part
Two
at
the
end of season 8.
Courteney
Cox
portrays
Monica
Geller
,
the
mother
hen
of
the
group
and a
chef,known for her perfectionist, bossy and
competitive
nature.
Monica
is
often
jokingly
teased
by
the
others
for
having
been
extremely
overweight
as
a
child,
especially
by
her
brother
Ross. Monica works as a chef in various
restaurants throughout
the show.
Monica’s first serious relationship is with family
friend Richard Burke who is 21 years
her senior. The couple
maintains
a
strong
relationship
until
Richard
expresses
that
he
does not
want to have children much to Monica’s dismay.
Monica
and Chandler Bing later start a
relationship after spending a
night
with
each
other
in
the
season
four
finale,
leading
to
their
marriage in season seven.
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Lisa Kudrow portrays
Phoebe
Buffay
, an eccentric masseuse and
self-taught musician. Phoebe lived in
uptown New York with her
mother until
her mother killed herself and Phoebe took to the
streets. Phoebe is ditsy but street
smart and writes and sings
(badly)
her
own
quirky
songs,
accompanying
herself
on
the
guitar.
She has an
Phoebe’s quirkiness but unlike Phoebe
seems to be cruel and
uncaring. Phoebe
is childlike and innocent in disposition.
Phoebe tends to use her past
misfortunes such as her mother’s
suicide as sympathy ploys. Phoebe has
three serious
relationships. Gary (the
cop) in season five, an on and off
relationship
with
Mike
Hannigan
(Paul
Rudd)
in
seasons
nine-ten
and David (Hank Azaria) in season one,
which ends when he moves
to
Minsk
on
a
research
grant.
They
reconcile
whenever
he
returns
but she eventually
rejects him for Mike in season nine. In the
last season, she marries
Mike.
Matt
LeBlanc
portrays
Joey
Tribbiani
,
a
struggling
actor
and
food
lover who becomes famous for his role
on
Days of our Lives
as
Dr. Drake Ramoray. Joey is a simple-
minded womanizer with many
short-term
girlfriends throughout the series. Despite his
womanizing tendencies Joey is an
innocent and caring character
[
with good
intentions.
Joey often uses the
catchphrase pick up
line
rooms with his best friend Chandler for
years and later a while
with
Rachel.
He
falls
in
love
with
Rachel
in
season
eight.
Rachel
politely tells Joey that she does not
share the same feelings.
They
eventually
date
briefly
in
season
ten,
but
after
realizing
it
will
not
work
due
to
their
friendship
(and
especially
Rachel's
complicated relationship with Ross),
they return to being
friends as before.
Matthew Perry portrays
Chandler Bing
, an executive
in
statistical analysis and data
reconfiguration for a large
multi-
national corporation. Chandler quits his job and
becomes
a
junior
copywriter
at
an
advertising
agency
during
season
nine.
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Chandler
has
a
peculiar
family
history
being
the
son
of
an
erotic
novelist mother, and
a cross-dressing
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Las
Vegas
star
father.
Chandler
is
known
for
his
sarcastic
sense
of
humor
and
bad
luck
in
relationships.
Chandler
marries
Monica
in season seven, and
they adopt twins at the end of the series.
Before his relationship with Monica,
Chandler dated Janice
Hosenstein
in
season
one
and
subsequently
broke
up
with
her
many
times.
Matthew Perry has expressed his similarities to
the
character such as his need to break
an awkward silence with a
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joke
and
difficulties
with
women
when
first
joining
the
show.
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David Schwimmer
portrays
Ross Geller
, Monica
Geller's older
brother, a
paleontologist working at the Museum of Natural
History, and later a professor of
paleontology at New York
University.
Ross
is
a
sweet-natured
man
of
good
humor,
although
he is often clumsy
and socially awkward. Ross is involved in an
on-again-off-again relationship with
Rachel throughout the
series.
Ross
has
three
failed
marriages
during
the
series:
Rachel,
Emily, and Carol, a lesbian who is also
the mother of his son,
Ben (Cole
Sprouse). His failed love life is potentially due
to
his paranoia and jealousy in
relationships and his divorces
become a
point of humor within the series. He and Rachel
have
a
daughter
by
the
end
of
season
eight
and
they
confess
that
they
are
still in love with each other in the final
episode.
Casting
Having
worked
with
David
Schwimmer
in
the
past,
the
series
creators
wrote the character
of Ross with him in mind, and he was the first
actor
cast.
Cox
wanted
to
play
the
role
of
Monica,
but
the
producers
had
her
in
mind
to
play
Rachel
because
of
her
upbeat
energy
which was not how they
envisioned Monica; after Cox's audition,
though, Kauffman agreed with Cox, and
she got the role. When Matt
LeBlanc
auditioned
for
Joey,
he
put
a
spin
on
the
character.
The
writers
did
not
originally
intend
for
Joey
to
be
dim,
but found it to be a major source of
comedy. LeBlanc also gave the
character
heart,
which
the
writers
did
not
realize
Joey
had.
Although
Crane and Kauffman
did not want LeBlanc for the role at the time,
they were told by the network to cast
him
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. Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry and
Lisa Kudrow were cast based
on their
auditions.
More changes
occurred to the series' storylines during the
casting
process. The writers found that
they had to adjust the characters
they
had written to suit the actors, and the discovery
process of
the
characters
occurred
throughout
the
first
season.
Kauffman
acknowledged that
Joey's character became
and
that
wasn't
until
we
did
the
first
Thanksgiving
episode
that
we realized how much
fun Monica's neuroses are.
Courteney Cox was the best-
known cast member
Courteney
Cox was the most well-known of the six main
actors. She
was
called
in
expecting
to
read
for
the
part
of
Rachel.
After
reading
for
Monica
instead,
she
won
the
role.
Nancy
McKeon
also
read
for
the
part.
Jennifer Aniston read for the part of Rachel after
initially
being
considered
for
Monica.
Her
commitment
as
an
actress
on
the
TV
series
Muddling
Through
left
her
part
in
Friends
in
doubt;
Muddling
Through
was not scheduled to be broadcast by CBS until
mid-1994,
after NBC's announcement of
whether
Friends
would be
greenlit for
a
series.
If
Muddling
Through
became
a
ratings
success,
the
role
of
Rachel would have needed
recasting, as the producer of
Muddling
Through
would not allow
Aniston to be released from her contract.
A
deal
was
eventually
struck
and,
within
three
days
of
first
auditioning, Aniston got the role.
Crane and Kauffman wanted Joey
to
be
guy's
guy
who
loves
sports,
women,
New
York,
women
The actors auditioned
using the
arrived in character with
character was not developed much in the
script, Matt LeBlanc just
used his
experience playing
from
Vinny and Bobby
.
He
had
at
least
eight
auditions
for
the
part,
and in his final one
read with Aniston and Cox.
Chandler and Phoebe had originally been
written as more secondary
characters
who
were
just
there
to
provide
humor
around
the
other
four;
Matthew
Perry
described
Chandler
in
the
pilot
script
as
observer
of
other
people's
lives
They
had
become
part
of
the
core
group
by
the time casting
concluded. Crane believed that the part of
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Chandler,
described
in
the
character
breakdown
as
droll,
dry
guy
would be the easiest to
cast, though it proved more difficult than
he initially hoped. Perry had
previously worked with Kauffman and
Crane on an episode of
Dream
On
, and requested an audition when he
identified with the
character
Ross&Rachel
Rachel's
most
prominent
relationship
throughout
the
series
is
with
Ross,
Monica's
older
brother.
When
she
moves
to
New
York
City
in
the
pilot,
Ross
has
been
obsessed
with
her
since
his
high
school
years.
Although
both
Joey
and
Chandler
know
this,
Rachel,
Monica
and
Phoebe
are oblivious until (slightly after
Ross left to China on a work
excursion)
Chandler
reveals
Ross's
feelings
for
Rachel.
Ross
tries
several times to tell
Rachel his feelings for her, but is derailed
by
her
ex-fiance,
Barry,
and
Paolo,
an
Italian
man
she
meets
during
an
electrical
blackout,
and
Ross,
unsure
of
himself,
gives
up
on
the
idea of
having a romantic relationship with
Rachel.
After Chandler's
bombshell and a moment of self-discovery, Rachel
realizes she has romantic feelings for
Ross and decides (assisted
by
her
friends)
to
approach
him.
Unfortunately,
while
in
China
,
Ross
became in a committed
relationship with Julie, a very
attractive
American
woman
of
Chinese
descent
.
After
her
attempts
to
reveal
her
feelings
for
him
fail,
she
decides
that
moving
on
is
her
only
option.
Her
constant
ramblings
of
Ross,
while
on
eating
dinner
with
another
man,
lead her to leave a drunken message on his
answering machine,
telling
him
her
feelings.
On
hearing
this,
Ross
and
Rachel
kiss
and
he ends
his relationship with Julie to be with Rachel.
Things are
going very well until she
finds a list of pros and cons he wrote in
order to help him choose between her
and Julie, and is deeply hurt
and
distressed
by
his
assessment
of
her,
and
as
a
result
ends
their
relationship.
Ross
begs
for
forgiveness
but
Rachel
is
still
hurt
and
turns
him down until Monica finds a box of high school
mementos,
including
a
video
of
Monica
and
Rachel
getting
ready
for
their
high
school
prom
. In the video, Rachel's date is
late and Ross, wearing
his
father's
tuxedo
,
is
about
to
surprise
her
by
offering
to
be
her
date. Just as he is
about to ask, her date arrives. Ross watches,
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heartbroken, as Rachel leaves. Touched
by this unknown romantic
gesture,
Rachel forgives him and they resume dating. They
remain
together
for
around
a
year
before
Ross's
jealousy
of
her
colleague,
Mark, and his
obsessive behavior leads Rachel to suggest taking
break
Ross
assumes
this
means
they
have
ended
their
relationship.
Depressed, he
drinks large amounts of
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alcohol
and
succumbs
to
the
advances
of
another
woman,
which
results
in
him and the other woman having
sexual
intercourse
. Rachel finds
out,
and
after
a
bitter
argument,
she
ends
their
relationship.
From
then on, the two have an on/off
relationship.
Rachel's
feelings towards Ross blossom again when he
announces his
engagement
to
Emily,
niece
of
Rachel's
boss
at
Bloomingdale's.
Ross
and
Emily
decide
to
get
married
in
London
only
one
month
after
getting
engaged and makes
Rachel panic. She then proposes marriage to her
then-boyfriend
of
four
dates,
Joshua,
but
he
refuses
and
they
break
up soon after. Rachel
claims she cannot attend the wedding because
she
has
too
much
work
but
later
tells
Monica
and
Phoebe
that
watching
them
marry
would
be
too
painful
and
admits
that
she
thought
she
and
Ross
would
get
back
together
again
one
day.
However,
she
changed
her
mind
and
flew
to
London
to
tell
Ross
that
she
loved
him
but
sees
him
and
Emily kissing. She gave them her blessing instead
but Ross
accidentally
says
Rachel's
name
at
the
altar.
Following
the
wedding,
Emily stays in
London and tells Ross she will only return if he
promises never to see Rachel again. He
agrees, initially, but then
tells
her
that
he
can't
and
their
marriage
ends.
When
the
gang
visits
Joey
in
Las
Vegas,
Ross
and
Rachel
get
drunk
in
their
hotel
room
and
marry
in
a
Las
Vegas
wedding
chapel.
Upon
sobering
up
and
realizing
what
happened,
Rachel
demands
an
annulment.
Ross
reluctantly
agrees
but at the last minute doesn't, but
tells Rachel he did. Rachel is
furious
when she finds out but forgives him when she
realizes his
reasons for that decision,
Ross simply didn't want to be known as
the
guy
who
had
three
divorces.
The
two
are
friends
during
the
next
season
except
for
a
brief
kiss
and
a
failed
night
opportunity
on
the
night
of
Monica
and
Chandler's
engagement.
However,
they
have
a
one
night
stand
a
few
weeks
before
the
wedding.
During
their
wedding,
Rachel
is
revealed
to
be
pregnant
and
in
the
following
days
Ross
is
revealed
to
be
the
father.
During
the
pregnancy,
Rachel
moves
in
with
Ross
so
they
could
raise
their
child
together.
When
Rachel
goes
into
labor,
Judy
-
Ross's
mother
-
gives
him
her
mother's
engagement
ring
urging
him
to
marry
Rachel
so
their
child
would
have
a
real
family.
Ross is hesitant but
after watching the birth of Emma, he almost
considers
it.
However,
Rachel
accepts
a
proposal
from
Joey
mistakenly and causes
Ross to have doubts over the possibility of
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a
relationship.
Raising
Emma
together
seems
to
be
a
joy
at
first
but
Ross's
continued
jealousy
over
one
of
Rachel's
co-
workers
puts
a
rift
in
their
relationship
and
Rachel
moves
out.
However,
their
friendship and desire to be good
parents cause them to remain good
friends.
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After Rachel is fired by
Ralph Lauren, she gets a job in Paris,
devastating Ross. At her going-away
party, she says goodbye to
everyone
except Ross. This upsets him and after he
confronts her
about it, Rachel tells
him that saying goodbye would upset her too
much as their history would make moving
too hard for her. To give
her
a
reason
to
stay,
he
kisses
her
and
they
sleep
together.
The
next
morning,
Ross
thinks
they
are
back
together
and
is
stunned
when
she
says
was
the
perfect
way
to
say
goodbye
After
moping
throughout
the day thinking he's lost her, he
chases her to the airport and
admits
he
loves
her
and
pleads
for
her
to
come
back
with
him.
Rachel
still
gets
on
the
plane.
When
he
returns
home
heartbroken,
Ross
finds
a
message
on
his
answering
machine
and
on
playing
it,
he
hears
Rachel
telling him she loves
him too
and
what
a mistake she's made and has
to get off the plane but is interrupted
by flight attendants when
the
line
cuts
off,
leaving
Ross
wondering
if
she
got
off.
Just
then
a voice speaks
to
her.
The
two
share
a
kiss,
rekindling
their
romantic
relationship.
Later,
Joey
tells
his
family
that
his
friends
(in
New
York)
are
married
which
implies
that
Ross
and
Rachel
are
now
married
as
well.
All
of
the
Friends
season
finales
with
a
cliffhanger
(Seasons
1,
3,
4, 5, 7, 8
and 9) involved Ross and Rachel.
Emma Geller-Green
Ross and Rachel's daughter is born at
the end of Season 8. After
struggling
to
find
a
name
for
her,
Rachel
decides
on
Emma
after
Monica
tells
her
that
she
wants
to
name
her
future
daughter
Emma,
but
allows
Rachel
to
use
the
name.
Rachel
proved
to
be
a
protective
mother.
Emma
is
also used in humorous ways such as Phoebe and
Rachel submitting
her into a beauty
pageant without Ross's permission, and her 1st
birthday
party
results
in
all
of
the
friends
leaving,
but
returning
in
the
end.
At
first,
Emma
lives
with
Rachel
and
Ross
in
his
apartment,
but moved in with Joey after Rachel and
Ross have a disagreement.
In the series
finale, Ross and Rachel reconcile meaning Emma
will
live with both parents....
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