Editing Jennifer Aniston (section)

==Early life==
Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in the [[Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles|Sherman Oaks]] neighborhood of Los Angeles<ref name="People-Bio" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eonline.com/celebs/Jennifer_Aniston/112166|title=Jennifer Aniston|publisher=[[E!]]|access-date=September 19, 2011|archive-date=February 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206211942/http://www.eonline.com/celebs/jennifer_aniston/112166|url-status=live}}</ref> to Greek-born actor [[John Aniston]] and actress [[Nancy Dow]].<ref name="People-Bio">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/jennifer_aniston/biography|title=Jennifer Aniston Biography|access-date=May 21, 2008|magazine=People|archive-date=September 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921015041/https://people.com/people/jennifer_aniston/biography|url-status=dead}}</ref> One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Louis Grieco, was from Italy.<ref>{{Cite book|title=From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir| first= Nancy| last= Dow| page= 32| year= 1999|location=Amherst, New York|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-57392-772-7}}</ref> Her mother's other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of Greek. Her father's ancestry is from the Greek island of Crete. Aniston has two half-brothers: John Melick, her older, maternal, half-brother; and Alex Aniston, her younger, paternal, half-brother.<ref name="People-Bio"/> Her godfather was actor [[Telly Savalas]], one of her father's best friends.<ref name="People-Bio"/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/race/jennifer-aniston-cake-typecasting-not-754710 |title=Jennifer Aniston on 'Cake,' Typecasting and Not Wanting to Talk About BS Anymore |magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=December 8, 2014 |first=Scott |last=Feinberg |access-date=December 13, 2014 |archive-date=December 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210213425/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/jennifer-aniston-cake-typecasting-not-754710 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Her family moved to New York City when she was a child.<ref name="People-Bio"/> Despite her father's television career, she was discouraged from watching television, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she was six, she began attending a [[Waldorf school]].<ref>{{cite magazine| first= Cal| last= Fussman| url= http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/ESQ1002-OCT_ANISTON| title= A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston| access-date= August 8, 2008| date= October 1, 2002| magazine= [[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]| archive-date= September 19, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090919132925/http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/ESQ1002-OCT_ANISTON| url-status= live}}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was nine.<ref name="Yahoo Bio">{{cite web|title=Jennifer Aniston- Biography |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/jennifer-aniston/biography.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626002525/http://movies.yahoo.com/person/jennifer-aniston/biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 26, 2012 |publisher=Yahoo! Movies |access-date=May 17, 2013}}</ref>

Having discovered acting at age 11 at the Waldorf school,<ref name="Yahoo Bio"/> Aniston enrolled in Manhattan's [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts]], where she joined the school's drama society,<ref>{{cite magazine| last= Quirk| first= Mary Beth| title= Fame-ous Alumni of NYC's LaGuardia High School| url= http://www.okmagazine.com/news/fame-ous-alumni-nycs-laguardia-high-school| access-date= March 31, 2013| magazine= OK!| date= July 11, 2009| archive-date= June 26, 2019| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190626182503/https://okmagazine.com/news/fame-ous-alumni-nycs-laguardia-high-school/| url-status= live}}</ref> and where Anthony Abeson was her drama teacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anthonyabeson.com/news7.html|title=Hassan Manning has been cast as a principal in the Michael Pinkney film|website=anthonyabeson.com|access-date=June 4, 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032947/http://anthonyabeson.com/news7.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She performed in ''[[The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window]]'' by [[Lorraine Hansberry]] and ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' by [[Anton Chekhov]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Sean |date=September 4, 2008 |title=Jennifer Aniston: The Unauthorized Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjIQmp2llUQC&pg=PA67 |publisher=[[Pan Macmillan]] |page=67{{Verify source|reason=Link has "&pg=PA67" in it, but original citation had no page no. value, and google books has no preview availible, so can't verify. Can someone with a physical or digital copy please verify the page number? |date=August 2023}} |isbn=9780283063893 |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926013935/https://books.google.com/books?id=CjIQmp2llUQC&pg=PA67 |url-status=live }}</ref>