Rachel Karen Green is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by Jennifer Aniston, who received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her performances. Rachel first appears 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 has evidently lost contact during her university years or shortly after. Rachel, unlike Monica, was popular during high school.

Prior to the series Rachel had fled her wedding to Barry Farber having discovered she wasn't really in love with Barry, and in fact desired the gravy boat that she had been given as a wedding gift more than she desired her fiance. Consequently, Rachel is stuck in a state of arrested development, an adult woman who emotionally has not outgrown adolescence. It is also revealed throughout the show that Rachel had a cat, a dog, a pony, a turtle, a hamster, and a tarantula while she was growing up.

She also went to college, and was in the sorority Kappa Delta. Rachel's parents are rich and generally cynical of her attempt at an independent life in the city. Her mother, played by Marlo Thomas, is comically snobbish and shows her lack of hands-on mothering skills when she offered to be the nanny to Rachel and Ross's baby.

Her father, Dr. Green, who was played by Ron Leibman, is 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. Rachel was born on May 5th, which is revealed when Gunther, manager of Central Perk, asks Rachel for her birthday.

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