The Friends

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green

• A fashion enthusiast who starts working at the coffee shop, but later moves into management at Bloomingdale's and, subsequently, at Ralph Lauren.

Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller

Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller

• A chef who changes jobs often throughout the show, ending up as head chef at a restaurant named Javu.

• She tended to look after her friends and was known for her obsessive personality and competitive nature.

Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay

Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay

• An eccentric masseuse and musician. Her claims to fame include her guitar playing in Central Perk and her elaborate, improbable stories about her previous lives.

• Phoebe was known during the series as the eccentric but street-smart friend.

Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani

Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani

• Joey is known for his simple-mindedness, trouble with understanding negative criticism of his acting, and love of food. He particularly loves meatball sub sandwiches.

Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing

Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing

• An executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large multi-national corporation. He is later a junior copywriter at an advertising agency and marries longtime friend Monica.

David Schwimmer as Ross Geller

David Schwimmer as Ross Geller

• Ross is the older brother of Monica, and was the favored child of their parents. He’s also a paleontologist working at a museum of Prehistoric History and later a professor of paleontology at New York University.

• The character of Ross was written with David Schwimmer in mind.

Central Perk

Central Perk

• A fictitious coffee shop in New York City's Greenwich Village. It was one of the focal points of the Friends. It was one of the show's main sets in which the six main characters spent much of their free time conversing.