How old are the kids from Friends... and what do they look like now? (2023)

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How old are the kids in Friends? ›

Jack and Erica Bing, Friends

Monica and Chandler got the surprise of their lives when they welcomed not one, but TWO babies, a set of twins they named Jack (after Monica's dad), and Erica (after the twins' birth mother), on May 6, 2004. The twins would be 14 years old today.

(Argh, etc.) The babies playing Leslie, Chandler (the girl version) and Frank Jr Jr went uncredited for their first appearance in season five's 'The One Hundredth', but when the kids reappear a year later in 'The One With Joey's Porsche', they are actually played by quadruplets: Alexis, Cole, Justin and Paul Cimoch.

Jennifer Aniston (53), Lisa Kudrow (59), Matt LeBlanc (55), Matthew Perry (53), Courteney Cox (58), and David Schwimmer (56), are the current ages of the Friends cast as of 2022.

Erica was named after her biological mother, similarly to another adopted character, Phoebe, who was also named after her biological mother. Both characters were born as twins. Erica will be 18–19 as of 2023.

The babies that played Leslie, Chandler and Frank Jr Jr were uncredited, but by season six, the triplets appeared as toddlers when Phoebe, Monica and Chandler tried their hand at babysitting. These triplets were actually played by quadruplets Alexis, Cole, Justin and Paul Cimoch.

Lisa Kudrow is the oldest of the main Friends cast. Born on 30 July 1963, she was 31 when the show began and is now 57.

Septuplets (7)

The Frustaci septuplets (born 21 May 1985, in Orange, California) are the first septuplets to be born in the United States. Born at 28 weeks, only two boys and one girl survived; one daughter was stillborn and three died within 19 days of birth.

Monica was diagnosed as having a “hostile” cervical environment, a condition in which a woman's cervical mucus is abnormally acidic, scarce or dense, thus preventing sperm from traveling through the cervix and into the uterine cavity and Fallopian tubes to fertilize a mature egg.

In season seven, Ross and Rachel have sex, and Rachel gets pregnant. Rachel gives birth to a girl in season eight, naming the baby Emma Geller-Green; the name Emma is a gift from Monica, who had previously been reserving the name for her own child.

FACT: Ross is 9 years older than Rachel. Rachel tells the truth to (older) Monica that she's 7 years older than Chandler.

How much older than Monica is Ross? ›

As for ages, Monica and Ross are one year apart, Joey is just nine months younger than his older sister, and Phoebe is one minute younger.

ROSS and Rachel's baby Emma in Friends is unrecognisable 19 years on. Fans might be surprised to discover the infant was actually played by a set of identical twins. Now all grown up, the stars Cali and Noelle Sheldon recently appeared in horror film, Us.

Despite all this, he and Monica are the first to have a committed marriage that does not end in divorce.

After her birth, Emma lives with both of her parents until a fight breaks out between Ross and Rachel over Ross's failure to inform Rachel that a man she met at a bar left a message for her. After that, Rachel returns to Joey's house.

Lisa became pregnant whilst filming Friends and at her own request, saw her pregnancy incorporated into her character Phoebe Buffay also becoming pregnant. However Phoebe was pregnant with triplets and consequently, Lisa wore padding during the filming of later episodes of Season 4.

Lisa Kudrow was pregnant in real life when she was shooting the triplets storyline for Phoebe Buffay in Friends. The actor had earlier shared that the makers were not really into hiding the pregnancy so they wrote it into the show. The trailer of the Friends' reunion special episode sure left the sitcom fans emotional.

Rachel's pregnancy is confirmed in the first episode of season 8 and it's revealed she's at least two weeks along, but by episode 6 of that series — The One with the Halloween Party — which the poster reasons must be sometime in October, Rachel still doesn't have a baby bump, despite allegedly being around 5 months ...

Her pregnancy was written into the plot of the fourth and fifth seasons of the sitcom in which Phoebe Buffay, her character, became a surrogate mother for her brother and his fiance, Frank and Alice. Lisa and her husband Michel Stern welcomed Julian in May 1998.

It was May 2004, and 50 million people tuned in to watch Rachel Green get off the plane. It was 'The Last One' – after 10 years on air, Friends was over.

Most Friends scenes (especially the apartments) were shot on-set at Warner Bros Studios. The real-life locations were filmed in Manhattan, New York, California, and London, England. While supposedly about a group of Manhattan friends, the Friends sitcom was shot at Stage 5 at the Warner Bros Ranch in California.

Who is older Ross or Phoebe? ›

Age. Her age seemed to have differed throughout the series. In "The One with the Mugging", it is implied that Phoebe is older than Ross, seeing as she was fourteen when he was 12. This episode made her possibly the oldest in the group.

Two babies are twins and three are triplets.

– Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.

Some names for these are: Twins for 2 fetuses. Triplets for 3 fetuses. Quadruplets for 4 fetuses. Quintuplets for 5 fetuses.

Joey Never Got Married After Friends

Joey was never one to get married, even though Joey proposed to Phoebe and Rachel upon hearing they were pregnant, and he was later engaged to Alex.

Surrogacy, a sperm donor and adoption are not Monica and Chandler's only options. They are discounting IVF. Her inhospitable environment and Chandler's low motility sperm wouldn't matter since the IVF process creates an embryo using her egg and his sperm in a clinical environment which is then re-inserted.

Connelly, who explains the truth - due to the low motility of Chandler's sperm and Monica's inhospitable environment (uterus), the two are very unlikely to conceive kids naturally. Although both very upset, Monica and Chandler resolve to find another way to have kids.

Emma is born in "The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 2". Emma lives with both her parents after she is born, until they get into a fight over Ross not telling Rachel that a man that she met at a bar left a message for her. Rachel then moves back in with Joey.

At the end of the episode, Chandler announces to Monica that he knows about the baby. Monica is surprised and denies the fact that she is pregnant which brings up the question about who is. The camera then zooms into Rachel's face suggesting that the pregnancy test is hers.

Rachel Weisz, 48

Rachel Weisz gave birth to her first child with Daniel Craig when she was 48.

Who got paid the most in Friends? ›

Jennifer Aniston played the role of Rachel Green and was considered the highest-paid actor with a net worth of $320 million (£258.5m). However, all the actors in the main cast were paid equally on Friends, with $1 million per episode for the final two seasons.

Did any of the “Friends” cast date? While there have long been rumors about the cast of “Friends,” none of its six stars were ever officially in a relationship together.

It is revealed in that episode that she is the youngest of the six friends, as the others had already turned 30 and were relating their birthdays. In the episode, she is wearing a shirt that has her supposed birthday on it (12-4), which is also inconsistent with the dates above.

In the show, Rachel is five years older than Tag, but in real life, Jennifer Aniston is nine years older than Eddie Cahill. So when this episode was shot, Aniston was 31 and Cahill was 22 years old.

This was shown in Friends: The One with Joey's Bag (1999), during the scene where Phoebe meets her father in Central Perk. Bob Balaban, who portrayed Phoebe's father Frank Buffay Sr, later guest-starred on an episode of Web Therapy (2011), starring Lisa Kudrow.

Frank is central to Season 2 episode "The One With Phoebe's Dad", but appears only once and more than three years later, when Phoebe's grandmother (Lily's mother), Frances, dies in "The One With Joey's Bag". He introduces himself at the funeral for the grandmother, which makes Phoebe gasp.

Well, between the filming of Seasons 4 and 5, the actress who plays Emily – Helen Baxendale – became pregnant. As a result, she was unable to travel to the US to do any filming.

Cole Sprouse as Ben and Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green (Image: Warner Bros.) Aged 28, he's now one of the leads on the popular TV show Riverdale. Until recently he was dating his co-star Lili Reinhart, but sadly announced their split last month.

She gave birth to the three kids, named Chandler, Leslie, and Frank Junior Jr on April 30, 1998, which would make them all 22 years old.

Courteney Cox was pregnant during Friends' tenth season, which aired in 2004 and was the conclusion of the series. Throughout the course of the show, Monica Gellar's character and her husband Chandler Bing (played by Matthew Perry) made numerous attempts to conceive children but were unsuccessful.

What does Chandler do for a living? ›

The answer to What is Chandler Bing's job?, the show's writers finally reveal, is that he works in “statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.” This is another kind of punch line.

In season 5, Ross and Rachel drunkenly marry in Las Vegas, and ultimately that marriage results in a divorce as well; however, they confess that if they ever got married properly it would be the one that lasted. Throughout the series, Ross gets divorced three times.

The show explained that their good fortune came on account of an inherited, rent-controlled lease from Monica's grandmother that allowed the pair to pay just $200 per month in rent.

This one-night stand resulted in Rachel becoming pregnant with Ross's baby. This was Ross's's second child and Rachel's first. In the Season 8 finale, Rachel gave birth to her and Ross's daughter, Emma. In "The One With The Videotape", it was revealed that the one-night stand had been caught on tape.

Rachel finally tells Ross that she is pregnant, and he's shocked - but he promises to be there for her; he even wants to marry her. Rachel doesn't want to marry Ross because they're not in love, and she is certain that she can raise the child on her own.

Yes, Lisa Kudrow, who was portraying Phoebe, was actually pregnant with her son Julian during season four of the sitcom Friends. Lisa stated that the cast was extremely supportive of her pregnancy in an interview with "People" magazine.

1. Keeping it in the family. The triplets were conceived via IVF, with Phoebe acting as surrogate for her half-brother, Frank Buffay Jr and his wife, Alice Knight Buffay.

Kudrow also brought up that she wasn't a fan of filming the twin scenes, and though Helene Marla Kudrow looks eerily similar to her sister, they are not, in fact, actual twins.

Though the ages of Friends characters vary on the TV show, Rachel and Monica would have both been 24 years old during the Friends pilot episode in 1994. That would have made Joey 25, while Ross, Chandler, and Phoebe would have been the oldest at 26 years old.

Matthew Perry who plays Chandler was 25 years old. Jennifer Aniston, who plays Rachel, was also 25. Matt Leblanc, who plays Joey was 26. David Schwimmer, who plays Ross, was 27.

How old was Chandler in Friends Season 1? ›

26 Years Old

Chandler Bing is Ross' best friend from college. Out of all the friends, Chandler's age and birthday are referenced the least throughout the series. The only reference fans get to his birthday is in "The One Where Rachel Smokes."

At the beginning of season one, Monica is 25 years old.

Monica is Ross's younger sister. She later marries Chandler. For most of the show she works as a chef around New York City. Her best friends are Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffay.

As for ages, Monica and Ross are one year apart, Joey is just nine months younger than his older sister, and Phoebe is one minute younger.

FACT: Ross is 9 years older than Rachel. Rachel tells the truth to (older) Monica that she's 7 years older than Chandler.

Rachel is the youngest of Friends six main characters.

Fellow creator David Crane put this down to "the actors' contract negotiations", and said that when they decided that season 10 really would be the last it was because they couldn't "keep stopping and starting and rethinking everything".

In the episode "The One Where Emma Cries", Chandler falls asleep during a meeting and on waking, realizes that he had agreed to head the new division in Tulsa. Chandler quits his job on Christmas, so that he can fly home to New York to be with Monica.

In the second episode of Friends season 9, "The One Where Emma Cries," Chandler fell asleep during an important meeting at his workplace and accidentally accepted an offer to move to Oklahoma to run a division of the company in Tulsa.

David Schwimmer was first to be cast. He was in Chicago doing a stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita when his agent offered him the audition.

What mental disorder does Monica Geller have? ›

Often in popular culture, obsessive compulsive disorder is passed off as a funny personality trait that makes someone the butt of the joke. The likes of Monica Geller from Friends is a prime example of this.

Courteney Cox, who played Monica Geller, revealed in a 2022 interview with Today that she doesn't like watching re-runs for a very particular reason. The network often speeds the episodes up, so they can fit in more commercial breaks, which then alters the voices and actions of the cast.

After years of trying to start a family, the Friends final ever episode gave Monica (played by Courteney Cox) and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) their first baby in emotional scenes. They welcomed twins into the world after their surrogate Erica (Anna Faris) gave birth in the shocking twist.