Rachel Green

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'Rachel Karen Green'

First appearance	The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Last appearance	The Last One
Statistics
Female
Age	30s
Occupation	Former waitress at Central Perk, Fashion Designer
Family	Leonard Green (father) Sandra Green (mother) Amy Green (sister) Jill Green (sister)
Spouse	Ross Geller (divorced)
Children	Emma

Portrayed by	Jennifer Aniston
Created by	David Crane Marta Kauffman

Rachel Karen Green (born May 5, 1970) is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Jennifer Aniston.

Some inconsistency in the spelling of the surname has led to confusion as to the correct spelling. In the credits it is always spelled as "Green", particularly 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 and subsequent RSVP.^[1]

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1 Background
2 Career
- 2.1 Rachel's other fashion jobs
3 Relationships
4 Dwellings
5 Age and Birthday
6 Notes and references

[edit] Background

Rachel appeared in the Pilot episode running into Central Perk in a rain-soaked wedding dress, in search of her old friend Monica Geller, with whom she had had little or no contact since high school. 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 having discovered she desired the gravy boat that she had been given as a wedding gift more than she desired Barry, Rachel was stuck in a state of arrested development, an adult woman who emotionally had not outgrown adolescence, and, specifically, her personality often cast her as an example of the spoiled daddy's girl/Jewish-American Princess stereotype, although later in the series, Rachel became less self absorbed. Still, Rachel Green is popular culture's most obvious Jewish-American Princess stereotype, from her storyline of the (aborted) early marriage to the dentist Dr. Barry Farber (also identified as Barry Finkle) to the nose job to the jobs at Bloomingdale's and Ralph Lauren to the overbearing doctor father to the obsession with looks and clothing.

[edit] 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 getting orders mixed up regularly. In the third season, after encouragement from Joey and Chandler she quit to enter a career in fashion, moving up and down the corporate ladder. She finally surfaced as a self-sufficient buyer of Ralph Lauren.

[edit] Rachel's other fashion jobs

Rachel was in two other fashion businesses before Ralph Lauren.

Fortunata Fashions = Personal Assistant
Bloomingdales = Assistant, later Personal Clothing

[edit] Relationships

Rachel is perhaps most famous for her turbulent relationship with Monica's brother Ross Geller. Ross had apparently harboured a crush for 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. The relationship ended when a blazing spat over Rachel's friendship with a male co-worker, Mark, led Ross to be very jealous. He took it too far one day and then got into an argument with Rachel, at they end of which Rachel finally says that they are taking "a break". Ross, thinking that Rachel broke up with him, gets so drunk that he sleeps with "the cute girl from the copy place" (Chloe, the object of Joey and Chandler's affections). When Rachel found out, she broke up with Ross in a famous scene that involves Ross and Rachel arguing in Monica's living room whilst the other four friends are trapped in Monica's bedroom, afraid of interrupting the argument. From then on, the two shared an almost on again-almost off again relationship. Rachel declared that she was still in love with Ross even though he was still married to Emily in a disastrous wedding ceremony. Ross did not reciprocate her feelings though he acknowledged "It's nice to know someone loves you". On a trip to Las Vegas, the two were married while drunk. Ross planned to remain secretly married to Rachel despite putative assurances to her that he would seek a dissolution of the union. The reason for doing so was that Ross could not suffer the ignominy of three divorces: the first to his lesbian ex-wife Carol, the second to Emily, and the third to Rachel.

Shortly after moving to the city, and before dating Ross, Rachel engaged in a purely sex-based relationship with an Italian named Paolo.

[edit] Dwellings

For six years, Rachel lived in Monica's apartment. They had a likeable, enduring chemistry which was to become one of the main elements of the show. She then moved to Phoebe's apartment but after it got burned down she moved to Joey's apartment, and, for a period, lived with Ross, until she decided to move back in with Joey.

[edit] Age and Birthday

In Season Four's "The One With Joey's New Girlfriend", Rachel tells Gunther her birthday is May 5. This is roughly consistent with Season One's "The One Where Rachel Finds Out", which aired in May, 1995 and depicts Rachel's birthday party. Rachel's 30th birthday, however, occurs in Season Seven's "The One Where They All Turn Thirty", which aired on February 8, 2001. If Rachel turned 30 in 2001, then she was born in 1971.