How Many Jennifer Aniston Characters Can You Name?

Throughout the years, actress Jennifer Aniston has made us laugh time and time again with her talent for portraying the sweet, funny, and sometimes awkward characters she is known for playing in both film and television. Most famous for her roles on the long-running sitcom Friends and in rom-coms, she is a talented actress who people tend to forget is also capable of playing more serious roles. She has not done this type of movie as often as she has the light-hearted films, but through her roles in darker films like Cake, The Good Girl, and Derailed, audiences have seen that she is a versatile actress with an extensive repertoire. So no matter your preference for genre, Jen can provide!

If you are a Jennifer Aniston fan (and really, who isn't?), you are likely to be familiar with most of the characters she has played. Her first acting role was in the television series Molloy in 1990 when she was 21 years old, and her most recent role was this year's The Yellow Birds, a war movie about two soldiers. In between, she has been a part of numerous other productions, usually in a starring role. So how well do you remember all of these movies, shows, and the characters Jennifer Aniston took on? If you call yourself a fan of hers, take this quiz and prove it! See if you can correctly identify 25 of the characters she has played in her career.

Question 1

Which character is this?

Let's start with an easy one, because let's be honest; if you cannot get this one right, you might as well not even bother with this quiz. Even though Jennifer Aniston had made movies and TV shows prior to this role, it is largely what "made" her. She portrayed this ditzy but lovable woman for 10 whole years, and even now nearly 15 years later, fans of her still miss her. Which character was Jennifer's defining role in the 1990's?

Question 2

What is this character's name?

Yet another romantic comedy that Jennifer Aniston made was this movie, in which she starred opposite Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller's character, a man named Reuben, has a life that is too organized, and he finds it spiraling into chaos. On his honeymoon, he finds his new wife cheating on him with their scuba instructor. Naturally, he leaves paradise and goes home. There, he runs into an old classmate, Jennifer Aniston's character, and he falls for her. What is her name?

Question 3

Name this Jennifer Aniston character.

In 2006, Jennifer Aniston starred alongside Vince Vaughn in the movie The Break Up, about a longtime couple who decide to part ways, but run into problems when they both want to keep their luxurious condo. Things get pretty nasty between them as they try to win the condo for themselves and still manage to break free of the other person. What is the name of Jennifer Aniston's character in this movie?

Question 4

Which character is this?

Marley and Me was a 2008 movie about a family and their cute (but troublemaker) yellow lab named Marley. The matriarch of the family was Jennifer Aniston's character. Owen Wilson played her husband, and other big names in the movie included Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, and Alan Arkin. It was just as much a story about the family relationships with each other as it was about the dog, especially the relationship between husband and wife, kind of like a romantic comedy taking place after their marriage.

Question 5

What is the name of this character?

In 1997, during the midst of Jennifer Aniston's Friends days, she made a movie called Picture Perfect. It was a story about a young advertising executive who fakes an engagement to a complete stranger. She does this to impress her boss, who thinks she is not family-oriented or very mature, so in order to prove him wrong and keep in his good graces, she pretends to be engaged to a man named Nick. Of course, the two fall in love.

Question 6

Jennifer Aniston played ____ in Love Happens.

One of Jennifer Aniston's romantic comedies is called Love Happens. In this fil, she plays a character that is a hotel florist. At work one day, she meets a man named Burke, played by Aaron Eckhart. He is at the hotel giving a seminar, as he has written a book about coping with loss. His unexpected success turned him into a best-selling self-help guru, and Jennifer's character helps him to realize that he is not as over his wife's death as he thought.

Question 7

Which character did Jennifer play in He's Just Not That Into You?

The 2009 movie He's Just Not That Into You had an all-star cast including Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, and of course, Jennifer Aniston! She played one of the women in an interconnecting love story that takes place in Baltimore. Many of the issues of the characters in the movie center around the fact that people often misread one another's behavior.

Question 8

What is the name of the only villain Jennifer Aniston has played?

Jennifer Aniston is definitely not known for playing the bad guy, but in Horrible Bosses and Horrible Bosses 2, she kind of did. She played one of the bosses, who were targets for murder by their employees. Her employee was named Dale Arbus (played by Charlie Day), and he hated her enough to consider killing her because even though he was engaged to be married, she kept hitting on him and making unwelcome sexual advances toward him. What is this character's name?

Question 9

What is the name of Jennifer's fake mom character in We're The Millers?

In the 2013 movie We're The Millers, Jennifer Aniston plays a women whose neighbor concocts a scheme to move a huge amount of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. He recruits her to be the "mom", and two teenagers (Emma Watson and Will Poulter) to pretend to be their children. His plan includes acting like a cheesy family on vacation in their R.V. in order to appear innocent and inconspicuous at the border. In reality, they are a drug dealer, two unrelated teens, and Jennifer's character, who is actually a broke stripper.

Question 10

She played this woman in Bruce Almighty.

Jim Carrey was the undeniable star of the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty. But as we know, every protagonist needs his sidekick, and for him, that was Jennifer Aniston. His character Bruce leads a great life; he is a popular television reporter and has a beautiful girlfriend, played by Jennifer Aniston. But he is so discontent that he complains to God, and God answers him. God endows him with divine powers and challenges him to see if he can do the job any better.

Question 11

Name this character from Cake.

In the movie Cake, Jennifer Aniston plays a character that is wholly unlike most other characters she has played before. The woman she portrays suffers from chronic pain, and in the movie, she becomes fascinated by a woman who has committed suicide that she knew from her support group. At the same time, she is dealing with her own personal tragedy. It is a breath of fresh air to see Jennifer Aniston in a more serious role, and it just proves that she is such a talented actress, beyond the roles she is typecast in.

Question 12

In The Object Of My Affection, who does Jennifer Aniston play?

Long before Jennifer Aniston became synonymous with Rachel Green from Friends, she appeared in the 1998 film The Object Of My Affection alongside Paul Rudd. It is the story of a pregnant New Yorker whose boyfriend wants to get married and raise their child together. In most situations, that would be ideal. But Jennifer's character has realized that she is in love with her gay roommate, and would rather raise her baby with him. Do you remember the name of her character in this movie?

Question 13

Name this character.

In the 2002 movie The Good Girl, Jennifer Aniston took on a role that was atypical for her, because of the serious nature of her character. She plays the wife of John C. Reilly's character who works at a discount store and begins an affair with a coworker named Holden. He is younger than her, and not mentally stable. Jennifer's character is a bit depressed and knows what she is doing is wrong, but still does it. In the end, she winds up pregnant and lets her husband think it is his baby.

Question 14

Who did Jennifer Aniston play in this movie?

In 2005, the movie Rumor Has It came out. It was the story of a woman who finds out that the movie The Graduate was inspired by her family. During the course of the film, she is romantically involved with two men, Kevin Costner's Beau, and Mark Ruffalo's Jeff. Her one-night stand with Jeff threatens her relationship with the man who recently became her fiancé, Beau. It is a movie that is right up Jennifer Aniston's alley, yet another rom-com.

Question 15

What is the name of the character who unknowingly has her best friend's baby?

The 2010 rom-com The Switch is the story of a male-female best friend duo (Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman), who have a child together and do not even know it. How does this happen? Wally is secretly in love with his best friend (Jennifer Aniston's character), who is using donor sperm to get pregnant. Distraught and drunk, one night he switches the sperm, but forgot he did it because he was so drunk. Seven years later, the truth comes to light and they realize that he is the father of her little boy.

Question 16

Who does Gerard Butler track down in The Bounty Hunter?

Jennifer was pretty busy in 2010, and she also made the movie The Bounty Hunter with Gerard Butler. The two play ex-spouses. Gerard's character, a man named Milo, is a bounty hunter whose next assignment happens to tracking down his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston's character. She is a reporter who is currently working on a murder cover-up. The two reunite, and wind up running for their lives in a comedic adventure. What is the name of Jennifer Aniston's bail-jumping, ex-wife character in this movie?

Question 17

Who was Jennifer Aniston's character in this iconic comedy?

Office Space was made in 1999, and it has become somewhat of a classic since then. Beloved by so many for its clever humor and amusing cast of characters, Office Space is a must-see. It stars Ron Livingston as a grumpy guy who hates his job but feels too stuck to do anything about it. When his fiancé takes him to a hypnotist, it actually works and he suddenly DGAF about anything. He slacks off at work, and asks out the waitress he has been crushing on. What is her name?

Question 18

Who is this Mother's Day character?

The 2016 movie Mother's Day had an all-star cast of characters. In starring roles were Jennifer Aniston, Timothy Olyphant, Shay Mitchell, Amanda Seyfried, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, and several other big names that played smaller roles. It tells the tale of three generations of mothers, from all walks of life. Like Love Actually and Valentine's Day, this is a movie abut the intersecting lives of several different people during a holiday, in this case Mother's Day.

Question 19

In Ferris Bueller the T.V. show, which character did she play?

Way back when, Jennifer Aniston's had one of her first roles ever in the television series Ferris Beuller from 1990-1991. She played Ferris Bueller's younger sister. The movie was based on the hugely successful 1986 movie called Ferris Beuller's Day Off. In the movie, the role of the little sister was played by Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Gray. But for 13 episodes in the early 1990's, when Jennifer Aniston was in her early 20's, she was the one to portray this character.

Question 20

Who did she play in the 1993 horror movie Leprechaun?

Two years after she was on the television version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jennifer Aniston was in the movie Leprechaun. It was 1993, and she had won the leading female role in this movie about a killer leprechaun who is in search of his pot of gold. Dan O'Grady had returned from Ireland having stolen a pot of gold from the leprechaun. He returned to America thinking he had gotten away with it, but he was dead wrong. The leprechaun gets him and 10 years later, a father and daughter move into his farmhouse. What is the daughter's name?

Question 21

Name her Office Christmas Party character.

Last Christmas, Jennifer Aniston was in a holiday movie called Office Christmas Party. She played the CEO of a branch that her brother (played by T.J. Miller) manages. She tries to close it down because he is irresponsible and parties a lot. So her brother and his Chief Technical Officer, played by Jason Bateman, decide to throw an epic holiday office party in order to get in the good graces of an important potential client, and hopefully save their jobs.

Question 22

Which character did she play in this movie?

In the 2014 movie She's Funny That Way, Jennifer Aniston played a therapist. It is labeled a "screwball" movie and also stars big names such as Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Debi Mazar, and Ilieana Douglas. The story revolves around a playwright and his new project. On the set of this play, real-life drama takes over the stage drama when a love triangle is formed between the playwright's wife, his wife's former lover, and an actress who used to be a call girl but wound up in the play.

Question 23

In the dark film Derailed, what is her character's name?

Derailed is a 2005 movie starring Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen, and Vincent Cassel. Owen's character is a man named Charles Schine, whose troubled home life leads him to begin an affair with a woman he meets on the commuter train. Both are business executives, and both are married. When a violent criminal blackmails them, steals from them, beats Charles, and rapes Jennifer Aniston's character. The two lovers work together to get the bad guy and save their families. What is her character's name?

Question 24

Who was her character in Friends With Money?

This story centers around Jennifer Aniston's character. She has a close circle of three friends. In the foursome, three of the friends are well-off and married. Then there is Jennifer' character, the fourth friend, who is a single former teacher now working as a maid. As you can imagine, things can sometimes become awkward depending on the situation. During the movie, one of the friends sets her up with a personal trainer. Also starring in this movie are Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, and Frances McDormand.

Question 25

Who does she play in Management?

The movie Management came out in 2008, and stars Jennifer Aniston as a traveling art saleswoman. While on business in a small town with a population of just 27,000, she meets Mike (played by Steve Zahn), who crushes hard on her. He is sweet but goofy and hard to take seriously, so she is not interested. He is determined to connect with her, but she is worried about settling down for good, and her "biological clock" after the recent breakup with her boyfriend.

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