Cox was natural into an affluent Southern family and was raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was the cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox attend survey architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She dropped out fallowing of these season to the pursue the modelling career after existence signed per Ford modeling agency in New York City. When modelling, she as well took acting classes, & misused her Southern accent.

Cox was a foremost human to have a word "period" on US TV within its physiologic feel, in the 1980s advertising campaign. When coming to prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" (where she danced onstage by having Springsteen), she appeared within many motion picture including Masters of the Universe (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988) and Blue Desert (1991).

Cox got the prima role in the short-transient TV series, Misfits of Science (1985) and late got the revenant role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties (1982 - 1989).

Cox is better known for swimming Monica Geller Bing on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). She became a lone main member of the indicate's cast does'nt to exist as nominated for an Emmy Award.

Cox has as well appeared inside several Hollywood films including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream & a few married in June 12, 1999. Within June 2004 she gave birth to a binky users girl, Coco Riley Arquette. Before her relationship using Arquette, she experienced got the relationship by using actor Michael Keaton.
Selected filmography
Barnyard (2006) Alpha Dog (2005) The Longest Yard (2005) (uncredited) November (2004) 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) Scream 3 (2000) Scream 2 (1997) Scream (1996) Friends (1994) (TV series) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Mr. Destiny (1990) Cocoon: The Return (1988) Family Ties (1982) (TV series) (1987–1989) Masters of the Universe (1987) Misfits of Science (1985) (TV series)