Monica Geller "The Michigan Daily" appreciated the fact that "Cox brought moments of sincerity and severity to Monica". However, "The Washington Post" panned Cox's performance as "degrading", while Mike Ryan of ScreenCrush dismissed Monica as a "fairly normal, but boring" character. In 1999, Cox was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series. Although continuously praised for her performance, Cox never received an Emmy Award nomination for her role on "Friends" during its entire run, although each of her five co-stars did. Both female castmates Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston remain the show's only main
Ross Geller in basketball" to become a paleontologist, and claims to have had the idea for "Jurassic Park" and "Die Hard" stolen from him. He also had major interest in music when he used to play keyboard for hours in the basement of their house in Long Island. Ross had a pet in the earlier seasons of the show; a White-headed capuchin monkey named "Marcel". Over the course of the show, Ross dates a considerable number of women. He married three times and is divorced three times. His proclivity to marry and divorce is a running gag within the series. Rachel is