Rachel Karen Green-Geller 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.
Background
Rachel first appears in the Pilot episode running into Central Perk in a rain-soaked wedding dress, looking for her high school best friend Monica Geller, whom she had barely seen since they left school. Rachel had run away from her wedding to Barry Farber after realizing that she didn't really love him and wanted the gravy boat that they had been given as a wedding present more than she wanted him.
It is also revealed throughout the series that Rachel had owned several pets, including a cat, a dog, a pony, a turtle, a hamster, and a tarantula when growing up.
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 her father, played by Ron Leibman, is stern and intimidating.
Rachel was born on May 5, which is revealed when Gunther, manager of Central Perk, asks Rachel for her birthday.
Compared to her sisters, Rachel is the most grounded and down-to-earth, although this becomes evident after she moves in with Monica and becomes financially independent. Her sister Amy (played by Christina Applegate), is rude and tactless, while her sister Jill (played by Reese Witherspoon), is spoiled and vain.
Rachel's on/off relationship with Ross produced a daughter, Emma. Rachel's pregnancy was the second of the group after Phoebe acted as a surrogate for her brother and his wife. The series ends with Rachel and Ross getting back together after Rachel was moving to Paris to work for Louis Vuitton. It is rumored that they may have married after the series finished. This is hinted at by Joey in the premiere of the spin-off, Joey , where he stated all his friends are married, settled and have started a family.
Personality
Rachel's personality evolves during the series. Early on, she is a spoiled "daddy's girl" but later, especially after having Emma, becomes less self-absorbed. However, she is still the most focused on image and could be selfish. It was revealed one Thanksgiving (season 4 in 1998) that Rachel is prone to return gifts for other items or store credit. She was often described as one of the most popular but also one of the snobbiest girls in school, and Brad Pitt (Aniston's then husband) even guest-starred as a jilted enemy from high school, still angry at her treatment of him.
Image-conscious Rachel had a nose job when she was a teenager, which she claimed, was due to a deviated septum. She mentioned this in the flashback of Thanksgiving 1987 but she had the nose job in 1988. Flashback episodes show her with a much larger nose and the insinuation is that the operation was for image, a fact confirmed by a flippant comment from her sister Amy, regarding Emma – "Do you ever worry that she's going to get your real nose?" (which does worry her). She can be arrogant - her involvement with her neighbour, Danny, shows Rachel with some inability to comprehend that a man may not be interested in her.
After working as a waitress, she was encouraged to use her interest in fashion to get a job in the world of high fashion. Her focus on this and image came at the expense of domestic skills or common knowledge, of which she was mocked for having little. In one episode, for example, she accidentally used beef when making a trifle for Thanksgiving dessert after misreading the recipe (the pages were glued together). Another memorable time was when Rachel also thought a breast pump was a "beer bong for a baby". In season 7, it is revealed that Rachel can sail and tried to teach Joey, who is quite unresponsive. Although described as a spoiled daughter, she becomes a pushover (in episode "The One With The Joke").
Relationships
Ross
Rachel is perhaps most famous for her turbulent relationship with Monica's older brother Ross Geller. Ross had apparently had a crush on Rachel since ninth grade.
When Rachel moved to the city, Ross tried hinting that he would like a relationship with her but other people were involved. Rachel's ex-fiancé Barry and Paolo (played by Cosimo Fusco), a man she met during an electrical blackout, vied for her affection. She and Ross eventually got together in "The One With the Prom Video" and dated for a year. However, after an argument on their anniversary about Rachel's constant working, she suggested taking "a break". Ross, thinking Rachel was ending the relationship, got drunk and slept with someone else. When Rachel found out, she ended things with Ross in a scene that involved them arguing in Monica's living room while the others hid in Monica's bedroom.
From then on, the two shared an on/off relationship. When Ross dated Phoebe's "bald friend Bonnie", Rachel was clearly jealous when she saw that Bonnie now had long hair and convinced her to shave her head again. Ross asked Rachel why she did it and she admitted she still had feelings for him and found it hard seeing him with other women. While Ross broke up with Bonnie, Rachel wrote Ross a letter, asking him to take responsibility for their break-up. However, Ross fell asleep reading it, and later bluffed agreement. He later read the letter again and realized Rachel wanted him to take full responsibility for the problems they had while dating. Ross strongly disagrees but tries to accept it but later in bed, Rachel said she was glad she didn't take her mother's advice ("once a cheater, always a cheater"), and Ross snapped. They had another row about him sleeping with someone else and they break up again.
Rachel's history of admitting her feelings for Ross when he is with another woman happens again when Ross meets Emily, niece of Rachel's boss at Bloomingdale's. Ross and Emily got engaged after a month and plan to marry in London. Rachel doesn't go, claiming she has to work but later tells Monica and Phoebe that watching them marry would be too painful. However, she changes her mind and flies to London to tell Ross that she loves him but sees them kissing just before the ceremony. She gives them her blessing instead, resulting in Ross using the wrong name at the altar. When Emily does not go to the airport for her and Ross's honeymoon a few days later, Ross invites Rachel to accompany him instead. However, Emily sees them boarding the plane together and runs away. Ross goes after her. When Rachel returns from Greece, she is determined to tell Ross how she feels, despite Monica trying to persuade her not to. She tells him but realizes how funny it sounds, leaving Ross confused about the state of his marriage so far.
Later, on a trip to Las Vegas, the two get married after getting drunk together. The morning after, they wake up and, not remembering the events of the night before, wonder why they are in bed together. They remember when they meet their friends for breakfast. They divorce as the marriage can't be annulled, due to false information in the paperwork and their previous relationship. Consequently, they must file for divorce, and when Rachel signs the papers, she admits that it was her idea to get married.
At one point, Phoebe had backup plans with Joey, Chandler, and Ross; should she be single at 40, she would marry one of them. Rachel also wanted a backup and approached Ross, suggesting the same thing but Ross tells Rachel that he already has a backup "wife", Phoebe. This leaves Rachel mad at Phoebe for having more than one. In the end, they agree that in that event, Rachel will marry Ross and Phoebe will marry Joey.
Rachel and Ross had a baby at the end of Season 8, named Emma. She was conceived after a one-night stand during Season 7. Although Ross wanted to get married, they stayed friends and lived together to raise Emma (until a big argument, after which Rachel and Emma moved in with Joey).
In Season 10, Rachel is fired by Ralph Lauren and as she leaves, bumps into Mark and they go out for dinner. When she returns to Monica's apartment, she tells her friends that he offered her a job - in Paris. Everyone is mostly surprised and happy for her but Ross is distraught, and Joey freaks out about how everything is changing. Ross, upset at losing Rachel and Emma, bribes her boss to offer her her job back but she decides to go to Paris.
At her going-away party, she says goodbye to everyone except Ross and they have a fight and Ross is upset about how Rachel wants things to end between them. Rachel tells him that she can't say goodbye because if she thinks about leaving, then she'll want to stay because Ross is so important to her. After the fight, they sleep together. In the morning, Ross thinks they are back together and is stunned when Rachel says "it was the perfect way to say goodbye," leaving Ross devastated and hurt. He chases her to the airport and tells Rachel that he still loves her. Rachel gets on the plane anyway, shocked and unable to deal with his feelings for her. Ross goes home, heartbroken, to find a message from Rachel on his answering machine telling him that she loves him too. The line cuts off, leaving Ross wondering if she got off the plane. Rachel appears in his doorway and says "I got off the plane." as a reply after Ross repeatedly shouts to himself, "Did she get off the plane?!?" They kiss and get back together.
In the first episode of the spin-off series, Joey , Joey hints that Ross and Rachel had married by saying that all of his friends are wed.
Emma Geller-Green
♦ Born: May 16, 2002
Ross and Rachel's daughter, who
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