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Rachel Karen Green (official spelling, but occasionally spelled Greene in episodes) (born May 5, 1970) is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Jennifer Aniston. is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that is created from ones imagination or from an adaption of an existing entity. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... This article is about the television show. ... Jennifer Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American film and television actress, best known for her role as Rachel Green in the popular television sitcom Friends. ...

Background

Rachel appeared in the Pilot episode running into Central Perk in a rain-soaked wedding dress in search of her high school best friend Monica Geller, with whom she had evidently lost contact with either during her university years or shortly after. Rachel, unlike Monica, was popular during high school, and had always been promiscuous, which is steadily reflected in a comical sort of way throughout the series until the last couple of seasons. Rachel had fled her wedding to Barry Farber (or Barry Finkle, as he was initially known) having discovered she desired the gravy boat that she had been given as a wedding gift more than she desired Barry. Consequently, Rachel was stuck in a state of arrested development, an adult woman who emotionally had not outgrown adolescence. Like Ross and Monica, Rachel is believed to be Jewish^[1]. The One Where It All Began is the first episode of the American television situation comedy Friends, which premiered on September 22, 1994 on the NBC network. ... Central Perk logo. ... Monica E. Geller (born April 22, 1969) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Courteney Cox Arquette. ... Promiscuous redirects here. ... For other uses, see Wedding (disambiguation). ... Developmental disorders are disorders that occur at some stage in a childs development, often retarding the development. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

Rachel's parents are rich and generally cynical of her attempt at an independent life in the city. Her mother, played by Marlo Thomas, was comically snobbish and her lack of hands-on mothering skills came into when she offered to be the nanny to Rachel and Ross's baby. Her father, Dr. Green was stern and intimidating, as seen in his behavior toward Ross when Ross and Rachel were dating, and again when Rachel revealed to him that she was pregnant. Marlo Thomas Marlo Thomas (born Margaret Julia Thomas on November 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s. ...

In comparison to her sisters, however, Rachel was definitely the most grounded and down to earth Green daughter. Although this only really became evident after she moved in with Monica and became financially independent from her parents for the first time. Her sister Amy (played by Christina Applegate), was rude and shockingly tactless, while her other sister Jill (played by Reese Witherspoon), was spoiled and vain. Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress, particularly well-known for playing the very attractive, promiscuous, dim-witted Kelly Bundy on the Fox television network sitcom Marriedâ€¦ with Children. ... Look up tact in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon[1] (born March 22, 1976) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...

Rachel's on-again and off-again relationship with Ross eventually produced a baby daughter, Emma. Rachel's pregnancy was actually the second one of the group after Phoebe had acted as a surrogate to her brother's children. The show ended with Rachel getting back together with Ross after contemplating a move to France to work for Louis Vuitton in Paris. It is unknown whether or not they would marry again (They had drunkenly married on a trip to Las Vegas at the end of season 5). However a hint is dropped in the season premiere of the spin-off Joey where Joey states that all his friends were married, settled and started a family. Ross Eustace Geller, Ph. ... Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan (born February 16, 1967) is a fictional character from the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Lisa Kudrow. ... Joey is an American sitcom, starring Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the popular sitcom Friends. ... Joseph Joey Francis Tribbiani, Jr. ...

Personality

Rachel's personality evolved somewhat over the series. Early on, the focus was on her as a spoiled daddy's girl stereotype, although later in the series, especially after having her baby, Rachel became less self-absorbed. However, she was still the friend most focused on image and very selfish. She was often described as one of the most popular but also one of the snobbiest girls in school, and (Aniston's then-husband) Brad Pitt even once guest-starred as a jilted enemy from high school still angry at her treatment of him. William Bradley Brad Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an Academy award-nominated American actor, film producer, and social activist. ...

Image-conscious Rachel had a nose job at some point when she was a teenager, due she claimed, to a deviated septum. Flashback episodes show the teenage Rachel with her much larger nose and the insinuation is that the operation was for image rather than necessity, a fact seemingly confirmed by a flippant comment from her sister Amy regarding Emma - "Do you ever worry that she's going to get your real nose?"(in which she does) After an unhappy stint as a waitress, she was encouraged by her friends to follow her interests into the world of high fashion. Her focus on image and fashion often came at the expense of any domestic skills, of which she was mocked for having few. In one episode, for example, she memorably used meat when making the group a trifle for Thanksgiving dessert after misreading the recipe (the pages were glued together) Rhinoplasty is a type of cosmetic surgery that is used to improve the appearance of a persons nose. ... An MRI image showing a congenitally deviated nasal septum A deviated septum commonly occurs when the anterior spine of the maxilla is severed in half. ... August 16, 2005 My name is Gregory L Barrett and I believe that the most fashionable people on the earth are the Children of Jesus Christ. ... For other uses, see Meat (disambiguation). ... Trifle A trifle is a British dessert dish made from thick (or often solidified) custard, fruit, sponge cake, fruit juice or, more recently, jelly (American term: gelatin) and whipped cream, usually arranged in layers with fruit and sponge on the bottom, custard and cream on top. ... For other uses, see Thanksgiving (disambiguation). ...

Relationships

Ross

Rachel is perhaps most famous for her turbulent relationship with Monica's brother Ross Geller. Ross had apparently harbored a crush on Rachel since their school days. When Rachel moved to the city, Ross tried to re-kindle his affection, and after a rocky start the two finally got together in "The One With the Prom Video". After an argument over Rachel's friendship with a male co-worker, Rachel announced that they were taking "a break." Ross, thinking that Rachel was ending the relationship, got so drunk that he slept with "the hot girl from the copy place," Chloe. When Rachel found out, she broke up with Ross in a scene that involved Ross and Rachel arguing in Monica's living room while the other four friends were trapped in Monica's bedroom. This incident is on the episode "The One with the Morning After". (The scene was so emotional that both David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston actually cried after it was shot.) From then on, the two shared an almost-on again-almost-off again relationship. When Phoebe fixes Ross up with her "bald friend Bonnie," Rachel is clearly jealous when she sees that Bonnie is no longer bald, and in fact has quite long hair. In the episode at the beach, where Phoebe learns the true identity of her birth mother, Rachel convinces Bonnie to shave her head again. When Ross asks her why she did it, Rachel admits that it's because she still has feelings for him and finds it hard to see him with other women. While Ross is next door breaking up with Bonnie, Rachel pens a rather long letter to Ross ("18 pages, front and back!" as Ross repeatedly said throughout the episode.) asking him to take responsibility for their first break-up. However, Ross falls asleep while reading the letter, and later bluffs that he agrees with what the letter has to say. Afterwards, after reading the entire letter, which basically asks him if he will take responsibility for all the things that went wrong in their relationship, he finds out he strongly disagrees. He tries to swallow his pride and act like he accepts it; however, when the pair are in bed, and Rachel is saying she's glad she didn't accept her mother's advice "once a cheater, always a cheater" he finally snaps. A very loud "WE WERE ON A BREAK!" is heard being shouted by Ross from the bedroom and they angrily break up again. Ross Eustace Geller, Ph. ... The One With the Prom Video is the fourteenth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends. ...

Rachel's history of only realizing her true feelings for Ross when he meets another woman appears again when Ross meets Emily, the niece of Rachel's boss at Bloomingdales. When Ross and Emily get engaged and plan a wedding in London, Rachel decides not to go, lying to Ross that she has to work, but admitting to her friends that the true reason for her absence is that watching Ross get married would be too difficult. However, she later changes her mind and against the advice of Phoebe (who tried to chase her to stop her leaving, but is unable to do so as she is pregnant with the triplets at the time) she flies to London to tell Ross that she loves him and tries to stop the wedding. She arrives just in time to see Ross before the ceremony hugging Emily. When Rachel sees this, she realizes she cannot tell Ross her true feelings and instead gives Ross her blessing. This results in Ross saying Rachel's name instead of Emily's at the alter, much to Emily's horror. When Ross's new bride does not appear at the airport for their honeymoon a few days later, Ross instead invites Rachel to accompany him to Greece. However, Emily appears at the last minute, sees Rachel getting on the plane as Ross's companion and runs away. Ross chases her, subsequently abandoning Rachel on the plane to Greece. When Rachel returns from Greece, she is determined to tell Ross what she didn't get a chance to tell him in London - that she still loves him. Despite Monica trying to talk her out of it, she tells him, but immediately realizes how funny it sounds, leaving a bemused Ross to consider the comical state of his marriage thus far. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Monica E. Geller (born April 22, 1969) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Courteney Cox Arquette. ...

Later, on a trip to Las Vegas, the two got married after getting drunk together. The morning after, neither of them initially remember anything about the previous night, and are perplexed as to why they wake up in bed together. They only recall what happened when they meet the other friends downstairs in the hotel for breakfast. They later get a divorce after Ross lies to Rachel about already getting the marriage annulled. He wants to remain married to Rachel as he apparently can not face being divorced for the third time. The friends believe the real reason he wants to keep his ties to her is because he still loves her, with Phoebe being the friend who is most vocal about this, even soliciting the opinions of three strangers in the coffee house. One time, when Phoebe had all three backups with Joey, Chandler and Ross, should Phoebe still be single at 40, she would marry one of them. Rachel also wanted to have a backup and approached to Ross saying if she and Ross remain single at 40, they'll marry each other. Ross tells Rachel that Phoebe was his backup, making Rachel mad at Phoebe for having more than one backup. In the end, Rachel's backup is Ross while Phoebe's backup is Joey. Rachel and Ross later had a baby, Emma, who was conceived after a one-night stand, although they chose to remain just friends and live together to raise Emma. Eventually, in the final season, Rachel and Ross finally get together for good after she almost moved to Paris for a new job with Louis Vuitton. For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...

In the first Episode of the spin-off Joey, Joey hints that Ross and Rachel eventually got married by saying that all of his friends are wed.

Joey

Rachel and Joey had a brief relationship after the friends went to Barbados for Ross' conference "The one in Barbados, Part One" to the episode called "The one with Ross's Tan". After Joey catches Ross and his work partner Charlie kissing, he gets very mad because that was his girl friend and realized that he has had feelings for Rachel since they first met (but he never admitted that to himself or the others). So Joey goes to Rachels hotel room and attempts to hit on her. The second time, they kissed. When they get back to New York, Ross isn't ok with Joey's dating Rachel thing, so he pretends to be ok with it, even though he is still in a relationship with Charlie. Then in the episode "The One with Ross's Tan" Rachel and Joey cannot get past the kissing barrier. She keeps slapping his hand away and he cannot undo her bra, although he is usually very good at it, and decided that dating is a little too weird for them.

Monica

The other friend Rachel was closest to was Monica, her friend since high school. In their high school years, it is revealed that Rachel was a popular cheerleader with a string of boyfriends while Monica was her less attractive and overweight best friend. They lost contact for a number of years, but became close again when Rachel jilted Barry before their wedding and chose to move in with Monica.

It is revealed that Monica didn't expect to become close friends with Rachel again, as during a flashback episode, set shortly before Rachel's scheduled wedding to Barry, Monica and Rachel have a chance encounter, resulting in Monica remarking: "Ten bucks says I'll never see that woman again in my life."

Their living situation lasted for the first several seasons until eventually Chandler moved in with Monica. Rachel's moving out drew the two women to tears. Later, they had a near falling out when, on the day of Monica's engagement to Chandler, Monica caught Rachel and Ross kissing, and accused Rachel of always trying to "steal her thunder". â€œEngagedâ€ redirects here. ...

Family

In a way quite reminiscent of Monica's mother, Mrs. Green has a way of being quite dominating and unpleasant without going too much overboard. She's also quite harsh when it comes to her opinions (such as, for instance, when she suggested moving into Ross's apartment after Emma's birth and saying that his "dinosaur things" belonged in the garbage). It is implied that Rachel was quite alike Mrs. Green before she decided to turn things around and start a life in the city, running away from her marriage, whereas Mrs. Green actually got married to "her Barry". During her first visit, she actually says that Rachel's life is what she wants.

Dr. Green, however, is quite a dominating but nonetheless equally harsh man when it comes to speaking. He's very concerned about discipline. He has a striking sense of sarcasm and what he deems right or wrong, but he's not afraid of spoiling his daughters (as shown in one episode when Rachel reveals that her father bought her, "her own boat" to cheer her up after her "pony was sick"). However, when disagreeing with them, he disables their unlimited use of money. However, despite being quite generous when it comes to his daughters, he shares very little of his wealth with others, as reflected when scolding Ross for tipping so much at restaurants.

Rachel's parents have had barely any love life, as they married for the sake of money; according to Rachel, they barely even spoke during the early seasons, but later on, they argued a lot, later leading to a divorce and more arguing after that as well.

Rachel also has two sisters, Jill and Amy, with whom she has a typical sibling-rivalry relationship; when they were younger, they would constantly do pranks on each other. Jill is supposedly her "favorite" sister, despite being extremely spoiled, and during her visit when their father decides to financially cut her off, Jill decides to start dating Ross, but ends up doing it to get back at Rachel, who left her dateless on Valentine's Day because she didn't appreciate the thought of them being together.

Unlike Jill, who at least found Ross "cute, but nerdy", Amy does not even recognize him and believes he's a falafel-seller. It's also implied that Amy is the more violent one out of the sisters when Phoebe asks when Jill visits for the first time, "Is it the spoiled one or the one that bit her?" Rachel also doesn't seem quite as close to Amy as to Jill; when Amy visits during Emma's first Thanksgiving in the ninth season, she only says hi but then tells her she came by to borrow a hair-straightener, and saying how "Emmett" is cute, then realizing it's a girl.

In 'The One with Rachel's Phone Number', Some guys in a bar live in her grandmother's building. Her grandma's name is Ida Green. Rachel says that "she has no sense of personal space, smells like chicken, and looks like a potato."

Career

Rachel got her first job as a waitress at Central Perk. She turned out to be hopeless, taking long breaks to sit with her friends and regularly mixing up orders. In the third season, after encouragement from Joey and Chandler she quit her coffee shop job to enter a career in fashion, working as a personal assistant at Fortunata Fashions. Later on, she got a job as an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's with the help of colleague Mark, but after Mark leaves and her boss Joanna dies, her department is closed out and she is demoted to personal shopper. She then became a buyer at Ralph Lauren, where she memorably had an affair with her assistant, Tag Jones. In some episodes when acquaintances are impressed by Rachel's occupation and query whether Rachel knows Ralph Lauren himself, she always replies that she does, however, when they reply "really" she admits she doesn't actually. In the final episodes of the last season, Rachel was fired from Ralph Lauren when her boss overheard her having a job interview with Gucci. She was then offered a lucrative job in Paris with Louis Vuitton by her ex-colleague Mark, and accepted, leading to Ross' anguish in the show's finale episode, however Rachel decides to stay after realizing she loves Ross. A waiter in a resort setting A waiter is one who waits on tables, often at a restaurant or a bar. ... Central Perk logo. ... Joseph Joey Francis Tribbiani, Jr. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bloomingdales is a chain of upscale American department stores owned by Macys, Inc. ... For the company, see Polo Ralph Lauren. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Louis vuitton was a great man he was born on fh 12 3845. ...

Surname

Some inconsistency in the spelling of the surname has led to confusion as to the correct spelling. In the credits it is spelled as "Green" when referring to the surnames of her parents. However, within the show itself it has been spelled "Greene", including when her name was written on an invitation sent out by Ross and a subsequent RSVP.^[2] The name plate on her office door also says Greene.

The subtitles of the DVDs change: in the earliest seasons' DVDs it's spelled Greene, then changing it to Green.

Production

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Notes and references

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