“	It's like all my life everybody keeps telling that I'm a shoe. You're a shoe, you're a shoe, you're a shoe! But what if I don't want to be a shoe anymore? Maybe I'm a purse, or a hat... I don't want you to buy me a hat, I'm saying I am a hat! It's a metaphore, daddy!	”
—Rachel Green, "The Pilot".

CHARACTER
Rachel Karen Green
First appearance	The Pilot
Last appearance	The Last One, Part 2
Number of episodes	236
Portrayed by	Jennifer Aniston
Information
Name	Rachel Karen Green
Nicknames	Rach, Green, Ray-Ray, Pumpkin
Gender	Female
Date of birth	May 5, 1971
Occupation	Waitress at Central Perk (S1–3) Assistant at Fortunata Fashions (S3) Buyer and Personal Shopper at Bloomingdale's (S3–5) Executive at Ralph Lauren (S5–10)
Relatives	Biological: Leonard Green (father) Sandra Green (mother) Jill Green (sister) Amy Green (sister) Ida Green (paternal grandmother) Emma Geller-Green (daughter) Adoptive/Marital: Jack Geller-Bing (nephew) Erica Geller-Bing (niece) Marital: Ross Geller (husband) Jack Geller (father-in-law) Judy Geller (mother-in-law) Monica Geller (sister-in-law) Chandler Bing (brother-in-law) Ben Geller (stepson)

Rachel Karen Green (born May 5, 1971) is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by Jennifer Aniston, who received Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for her performance.

Contents 1 Background 1.1 Early Life 1.2 Season 1 1.3 Season 2 1.4 Season 3 1.5 Season 4 1.6 Season 5 1.7 Season 6 1.8 Season 7 1.9 Season 8 1.10 Season 9 1.11 Season 10 1.11.1 Series Finale 2 Personality 3 Relationships 3.1 Monica 3.2 Phoebe 3.3 Joey 3.4 Chandler 3.5 Ross 3.5.1 Emma Geller-Green 3.6 Family 3.7 Other relationships 4 Career 5 Dwellings 6 Surname 7 Age and birthday 7.1 Month and Day 7.2 Year of Birth 8 Trivia 9 Continue reading 10 Gallery

BackgroundEdit

Early LifeEdit

Daughter of Dr. Leonard Green, a stern and intimidating cardiology surgeon, and Sandra Green, comically snobbish and inept mother, Rachel Green is the the second of three daughters. Her older sister is Amy (played by Christina Applegate), a rude and shockingly tactless snob, while her younger sister Jill (played by Reese Witherspoon), is spoiled and vain. Much like her sisters, Rachel's childhood was spoiled with abundant gifts like pets (a cat, a dog, a pony, a turtle and a tarantula to mention a few) and other material goods (she owned a boat at one point). Rachel is thought to come from a Jewish family, based on sporadic comments and allusions made throughout the series.

In high school, Rachel was extremely popular. She was homecoming queen, prom queen, and class president ("The One Where The Monkey Gets Away"). Her best friend was Monica, in whom she confided most of her secrets. Her spoiled manners were tactless to people she did not care much about, like Ross and Will Colbert (played by special guest star Brad Pitt, then Aniston's husband). Due to this, Ross and Will founded a small "I Hate Rachel" hate club and managed to circulate a rumor that Rachel was hermaphrodite. This did not stop her from being popular, and some people went as far as stuffing to be more like her.

Rachel's early romantic life reflected pretty much her way of life, as it was spoiled for choice. She had the liberty to go out with any boy she wanted to, and so she did for her high school prom by choosing Chip Matthews as her date (Ross intended to take her when Chip didn't show up at the Gellers' house, but was left speechless when Chip showed up later). She also made out with Chandler at a Christmas college party, although she was so drunk that she had no recollection of it.

Sometime between 1987 and 1988, image-conscious Rachel had had a nose job due to a deviated septum (Jennifer Aniston did actually have a nose job, but it was before 'Friends'). She was worried that her real nose would be inherited by her daughter Emma, a fact brought out by her older sister Amy.

Although they have been friends all the way from high school to college, Rachel and Monica lost contact after college, only to meet again once before the show in 1993 (in The One With The Flashback). A snob, sophisticated Rachel who was engaged to Barry Farber and celebrating her engagement with her high-class friends, met Monica at a bar (which bar would later be refurnished into the coffee house). She also met Chandler, who she had a sexual fantasy about later on in the same episode. In the start of the series, Rachel dumps Barry just before the wedding and runs into Monica at the coffee house, who introduces her to her old acquaintances Chandler and Ross and her two new friends, Phoebe and Joey.

Season 1Edit

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1994 should have been her wedding day with Barry Farber, but Rachel instead runs into Central Perk in a rain-soaked wedding dress in The Pilot, having just discovered she was more turned on by a gravy boat wedding present than by Barry (in other words, that she didn't love Barry). Rachel's search for Monica, who she hadn't spoken to in several years, ends as she sees her and tells her what happened. Monica introduces Rachel to the rest of the group - Phoebe, Chandler, Joey and Ross.

Rachel confronts her dad over the phone about her fleeing from the wedding, and moves in with Monica, but learns that until she cuts off her dad financially and she gets a job, she won't go very far. By the end of The Pilot, she gets a job as a waitress at Central Perk. She then returns Barry's ring and finds out that Barry is dating her now ex-best friend Mindy who had been Rachel's maid of honor (in The One With The Sonogram At The End).

In spite of accepting the possibility of a date with Ross, he never actually asks her to go out, and this lets her fall for the new Italian guy Paolo in The One with the Blackout. Their relationship ends when Paolo makes a move on Phoebe, who tells Rachel in The One With The Dozen Lasagnas.

Although she's getting along pretty well with her girl friends, Rachel gets in trouble with Ross, when he leaves his pet monkey, Marcel, with her for a day, but she loses him (The One Where The Monkey Gets Away). She is also the one to get Marcel back to Ross, who forgives her and plans to make his big move, only to be interrupted by Barry, who claims his love for her. She then has an affair with him (The One With The Evil Orthodontist) but eventually confesses to Mindy, who not only forgives Barry (much to Rachel's disappointment), but still resolves to marry him.

This season is characterized by Rachel's obsession with cute doctors. In The One With Two Parts, Part 2, she convinces Monica to go out on dates with a couple of doctors (starring George Clooney and Noah Wyle) in order to get over their health insurance fraud. In The One With The Birth),she tries to seduce Carol's obstetrician until she learns that his job makes him despise female body parts, thus losing her attraction to him.

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In The One Where Rachel Finds Out, at her birthday party, Rachel receives an expensive antique pin from Ross. Stunned with admiration, the girls discuss the reason behind the gift, but it's Chandler who lets slip out the whole truth: "Remember back in college when Ross was in love with Carol and he bought her that ridiculously expensive crystal duck?" Astonished, Rachel cannot believe that Ross is truly in love with her and goes to the airport but fails to meet him as he is already through the gates. A week later, she tries to forget the whole thing, but her date with Carl gets interrupted by Ross. She day-dreams a discussion about a possible relationship with him, a discussion which ends in a kiss. Rachel decides to meet Ross at the airport and storms off mid-date. What she doesn't know is that Ross was getting off the plane with another girl, Julie.

Season 2Edit

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Starting off with The One With Ross' New Girlfriend, Rachel sees Ross with Julie at the gates, and tries to leave but falls over, which makes the couple look over at her. She is incredibly cold to Julie and makes everything she can not to make her happy, including making Phoebe cut her hair 'Planet of the Apes'-style, and convincing Ross not to sleep with her (in The One With Phoebe's Husband). She gets set up by Monica for a date to try and forget Ross in The One With The Baby On The Bus, but she gets drunk instead and leaves a message for Ross. When he hears it the next day (The One Where Ross Finds Out), Ross makes Rachel confess her feelings for him, which confuses him. He confronts her later that night, and they share their first kiss.

The One With The List should be the climax of their new relationship, but instead Ross' list repels Rachel from him because she can't stand the fact that he would use the list as reasons not to be with her. She gets back at Ross by dating Russ, a guy who is in every way like Ross, and she dumps him because of this. After watching her and Monica's prom video in prom video, Rachel realizes that Ross did actually try to confess his feelings back then, and walks up to him and kisses him. Their first date (in The One Where Ross And Rachel...You Know) did not end so well, as Rachel can't stop laughing when Ross touches her. Eventually, they get over this small problem and sleep together for the first time in the museum's Planetarium, where Ross has taken her to view the night sky.

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Rachel's mother visits in the second season, and amongst other things, tells her that she's leaving her father. This is a bomb for Rachel, who struggles to find compromise between her parents (most notably in The One With Two Parties). She also has to face her ex's marriage to her former best friend Mindy, for whom Rachel is a bridesmaid. The whole wedding is a fiasco - she presents herself at the wedding in a pink marshmallow dress, walks up the aisle with her butt showing and is the target of a bet placed by Barry in which she would be out of the wedding by 9:45. She does, however, have the guts to stay through the wedding and sing 'Copacabana' in front of everyone.

Season 3Edit

The One With The Princess Leia Fantasy, the pilot for Season 3, is when Rachel asks Ross for any sexual fantasies he has. He admits he likes Princess Leia in the gold bikini, which she re-enacts for him, scone-style hair and all. Being in a relationship with Ross for quite some time now, she acts as relationship counselor for Chandler in The One With The Metaphorical Tunnel, and gives him advice on how to behave with Janice in various situations.

Rachel can also be seen in her 1993 version, in The One With The Flashback. Way back, she was celebrating her engagement to Barry with her high-class friends at a bar (which would turn out to be refurbished into the coffee-house), where she met Monica, her high-school best friend, and Chandler, who tried to make a move on Rachel. Later on, Rachel had second thoughts about Barry, daydreaming a sensual kiss with Chandler at the juke box.

Following this, Rachel has some casual issues in the next few episodes, such as having trouble getting Ross and her father along, as can be seen The One With The Race Car Bed, although they do find Rachel's flaws an interesting subject at brunch the next day. In The One With The Football, Rachel is the one left out in team-picking, and she also is the one to win the game for the girls. She is then convinced by Chandler and Joey to quit her waitressing job at Central Perk (in The One Where Rachel Quits), to pursue a career in fashion - pouring coffee. At Moondance, she meets Mark from Bloomingdale's, who helps her out to get a job in his department (The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister). This is the cause of Ross' jealousy for Mark (The One With All The Jealousy), which jealousy led to some issues between him and Rachel.

In The One Where Ross And Rachel Take A Break, Rachel has to work on her and Ross' anniversary, and Ross brings a picnic to her work but ends up setting her desk on fire. She bids him goodbye, and he waits for her at her and Monica's apartment, where they have the worst of fights. Rachel tells Ross that they should "take a break". She spends the evening alone, but Mark calls and comes over. Ross finds Joey and Chandler, who convince him to call her, which he does. On hearing Mark's voice over the phone, however, Ross assumes the worst, hangs up and spends the night with Chloe, the copy girl from the Xerox place. In The One With The Morning After, Rachel feels awful how she left things with Ross, and makes up with him at his apartment, until she learns from Gunther about Ross' affair. The fight she and Ross have at her apartment is the worst one ever, and they break up, tearfully and sadly.

The next days she and Ross begin fighting about the "we were on a break!" thing, bickering all the time. The anger they have for each other is such that Rachel invites everyone but Ross for a weekend ski trip, but she's forced to accept his help when Phoebe's car runs out of gas (in The One Without The Ski Trip). Rachel even dates Mark, Ross' antagonist, in The One With The Tiny T-Shirt, but it's when she receives back the tiny T-shirt from Ross that Rachel tries to start forgiving Ross. The One With A Chick And A Duck is where Ross puts away his anger to help Rachel go to the hospital, putting off his appearance on a television program to help her. She says it's the sweetest thing he's done and she's friends with him again.

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When Phoebe asks her to set up Ross with Bonnie in The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion, Rachel does not give her go-ahead until Phoebe mentions that Bonnie's bald, and still cannot be happy for Ross, especially when she sees that Bonnie is not bald at all. Such is her jealousy that in The One At The Beach, she convinces Bonnie to shave her head so that Ross will repel her. Rachel also gets to confess to Ross that she might want to get back with him. They even share a kiss, after which she goes upstairs to wait for him. The season ends with Ross entering a room and saying "hi" to someone inside, the identity of whom is unknown at the end of the season.

Season 4Edit

Ross enters Rachel's room, but Rachel is not alone. Bonnie's there too, and Rachel is applying after-sun on her bald, sunburned head. Ross gets Bonnie out of the way and he resumes his interrupted kiss with Rachel. Things don't go beyond this, however, as Ross breaks up with Bonnie and Rachel writes him a 18-page letter which she wants him to read before they get back together. Having failed to go through the whole letter, Ross wakes up in the morning and tells a worried Rachel that he read every word of the letter twice, but is thrown off course when she asks him "Does it?". he unknowingly agrees that it does, which makes Rachel get together back with him. Ross finds out that what he agreed to with Rachel was that he would take full responsibility for everything which went wrong in their past relationship. The couple do it (or apparently not) in Rachel's apartment, but her continuous references to the letter makes their break-up definitive.

The fights with Ross are not over, and Rachel does what she can to humiliate and provoke him. She makes him apologize to a cat in The One With The Cat. She urges Chandler to break up with her boss Joanna, who he dated previously in the previous season, but later finds him half-naked and handcuffed to her boss's chair. However, she makes sure that this time, Chandler does break up with her boss and definitively (The One With The Cuffs). Things with Ross have now reached their peak in a dating war which Ross began when dating a woman with a child, and Rachel begins dating a college student. It takes a sick Monica to reveal the truth about Ross's babysitting "dates" and Rachel's thieving college boyfriend (in The One With Joey's New Girlfriend).

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Rachel, together with Monica, bets the guys to know who best knows whom, but minutes later the game is spiced up to a real competition. Money is not enough to bet (both teams tie at the end), and the girls end up betting their apartment, which they lose (in The One With The Embryos).

Now single and living in a smaller, more dingy apartment, matters get worse for Rachel when she gets down-shunted to a lesser department in Bloomingdale's due to her boss' sudden death. Rachel was going to quit but her new client, Joshua, changes her mind about her job and make her stay (in The One With Rachel's Crush). Her crush comes at a costly price, however, since her boss's niece ends up with Ross (The One With Joey's Dirty Day). In order to attract Joshua, Rachel throws a surprise party (in The One With The Fake Party) for Emily (her boss's niece) to try to seduce Joshua. This fails when Phoebe's babies kick for the first time. With a stuck bra in her sleeve and a broken tooth, Rachel is crushed to hear that Joshua thinks that it's not the right time for him to date, but soon after, Joshua comes back to kiss her. Things with Joshua go well until Ross and Emily announce their engagement in The One With All The Haste. Her competition with Ross pushes her to propose to Joshua to marry her. Joshua breaks up with her after he goes to Rachel's apartment and she answers the door in a wedding dress and singing "I doooo!" (in The One With All The Wedding Dresses).

Ross invites her to his wedding in London, but she refuses to come (The One With The Invitation), claiming that their history would make it too painful for her to watch the ceremony. Phoebe makes her reason things out and admit she's still in love with him. Determined to tell Ross about her feelings, Rachel sets off to London, leaving Phoebe behind. Although Phoebe calls Joey to warn him about Rachel coming to ruin Ross' wedding, Rachel can't bring herself to tell Ross because she sees him kissing his future wife; all she manages to tell him is "congratulations". The wedding begins with Rachel sitting with the guests. During the vows, Ross looks at Emily but says "Rachel" instead (The One With Ross' Wedding, Part 2) of Emily. The minister asks if he should continue, ending the fourth season halfway through the ceremony.

Season 5Edit

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In The One After Ross Says Rachel, Rachel is surprised as anyone else to hear Ross say "Rachel" instead of "Emily" but the wedding goes on. Emily sticks the ring in Ross' finger with anything but delicateness and the Gellers' remark that the wedding is turning out "worse than when he married a lesbian" (Carol), starting the wedding off the wrong foot. Rachel ruins Monica and Chandler's plans to have sex when she goes to stick in the phone with Phoebe about the turnout of events. Rachel is crushed to hear Ross remark that her name doesn't mean anything to him, but in the end she makes Ross go on his honeymoon alone, then agreeing to go with him. Emily arrives to see them departing together, which makes Ross realize what it looks like and chases his wife, leaving Rachel alone on the plane.

After her return from Greece, Rachel is so angry with her past love life decisions that she decides to leave her future ones to Monica, who sets her up with a guy. The date goes on well, but seeing Ross on the couch in full depression for his wife's rejections, she decides to blow the date off and console Ross with the goal of telling him her feelings. She does tell him, but hearing it out makes her realize the absurdity of the statement, making everything go away just as it had come to be (in The One With All The Kissing).

Emily agrees to come to New York and make up things with Ross if he never talks to Rachel again. Unknowingly, Rachel convinces Ross to do so, but when she finds out what he agreed to, she gets mad at him (in The One With The Kips). Rachel admits to Ross that she doesn't want to stop seeing him, and when he does see her one last time and tells Emily over the phone about this, he breaks up with her.

Rachel starts dating Danny (who she fogged previously in The One With The Yeti), even though she played hardball with him in The One Where Ross Moves In. However, she finds it disturbing that he and his sister are close on the border of incest so she breaks up with him (The One With The Inappropriate Sister).

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Rachel then decides that her New Year's Resolution will be not to gossip, but is pushed to the limit when she finds out about Chandler and Monica's relationship. She decides to confront them but after hearing Monica telling Chandler how hard it is to lie to Rachel, she lets it go (The One With All The Resolutions).

She also helps Joey in picking up clothes and picks a man's (but not manly) handbag for him (in The One With Joey's Bag). Her fashion tips, supposedly to help him get an audition, are actually the reason why he doesn't get the part.

She decides to play practical jokes on Monica and Chandler and helps Phoebe to uncover the whole truth in The One Where Everybody Finds Out. She goes along with Ross to buy a new couch and is angered when Ross tells a store employee that they had sex 298 times, she also helps trying to transport the couch to Ross' apartment (The One With The Cop).

Rachel gets a job interview at Ralph Lauren but she accidentally kisses her interviewer (The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss). In a second interview, she blows him off by misinterpreting him with sexual innuendo, but at the end he hires her, after which she accidentally grabs his crotch. At her new job, Rachel tries to smoke to fit in with her new colleague and boss, but they leave her out (The One Where Rachel Smokes) and she stops smoking.

To show that she's over Ross, Rachel gets a date for him because he can't flirt (in The One Where Ross Can't Flirt). However, she's the one to hear Emily's message for Ross in The One With The Ride-Along and convince Ross to forget about her.

It's also known that Rachel hates any form of impact with the eyes (The One With Joey's Big Break), a trait that she shares with her ex (from The One With The Sonogram At The End).

When the guys leave for Vegas (with the exception of her and Ross) she walks around the apartment naked, catching Ross' attention. Seeing her naked makes him believe she wants sex with him, a fact which she denies when he comes over. This is the cause of a continuous series of pranks they play on each other, ending up with both of them getting married in Vegas, fully drunk and in permanent-pen-painted faces.

Season 6Edit

The sixth season starts with Rachel being married to Ross. She settles for the annulment with him, and leaves everything for him to take care of. Because Ross doesn't want another divorce and cannot get the annulment, he stays married to Rachel, until she finds out (in The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance). The One With Joey's Porsche sees Rachel taking care of the forms, albeit in an extravagant manner which makes Ross seem a gay heroin addict. By the end of the episode, however, she confesses to him that this divorce is actually her fault, as she was the one to suggest the marriage.

Apart from the marriage with Ross, Rachel has to face another hard reality - Chandler is moving in with Monica, who makes Rachel move out (in The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel). There are mixed feelings, but Rachel finally accepts the fact and the reality of not having Monica as her roommate (in The One On The Last Night). Rachel eventually moves in with Phoebe (The One Where Phoebe Runs). In her new home, Rachel tries to give a touch by furnishing the place with Pottery Barn accessories, much to Phoebe's initial dismay and later, delight (The One With The Apothecary Table). Her stay is made temporary by a fire in the apartment (The One Where Ross Dates A Student), and she moves in with Joey until her apartment is refurnished.

Rachel is pointed out to be a push-over (in The One With The Joke), a fact which makes Phoebe prefer her as a lesbian date to high-maintenance Monica. Season 6 also shows the younger of Rachel's sisters, Jill, in The One With Rachel's Sister, and later on in The One Where Chandler Can't Cry. Rachel is very uncomfortable with Jill dating her ex-boyfriend and makes Ross realize that nothing can happen between him and Rachel in the future if something happened between him and Jill, which was not only the key to Rachel forgiving Ross but also the cue for Chandler to cry for the first time on the show.

The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad is also the one where Rachel meets Elizabeth's dad, Paul Stevens. She dates him while Ross dates Elizabeth (despite Ross being highly uncomfortable about him) but dumps him in The One with the Ring because of his incessant crying.

By the end of Season 6, Rachel chooses Ross as her backup husband (in The One With The Proposal, Part 2).

Season 7Edit

Despite stating at the end of Season 6 that it was "the least jealous" she's ever been, Rachel agrees to bonus night with Ross, and makes out with him in the hallway, where Monica sees them and calls off the celebrations to her engagement (The One With Monica's Thunder).

Rachel receives a promotion as merchandising manager for polo retail at Ralph Lauren (in The One With Rachel's Assistant), a position which allows her to hire a personal assistant. This is how she meets Tag, her hot, fun boyfriend who is not part of her committed future plans, which makes them break up in The One Where They All Turn Thirty.

In spite of this season focusing mostly on Chandler and Monica's preparations for their wedding, Rachel still receives some interesting sub-plots. She is portrayed as something of a sweet tooth in The One With All The Cheesecakes, sharing several cheesecakes with Chandler (including eating the last of them off the floor). Her friendship with Joey at this point of the series is such that she goes with him to the Soapie awards (in The One With Joey's Award), and even grants him permission to squeeze her ass on TV should he win. The same episode shows her "practicing" for the Grammies with her shampoo bottle in the shower, although this is only known by her lines in the episode. In The One Where They're Up All Night, she spends the night with Tag in the office looking for important contracts to Milan which she did not send out, but for convenience prefers to blame Tag for the mistake. And in The One With Rachel's Big Kiss, she meets Melissa (portrayed by special guest star Winona Ryder), the girl who she made out with back in senior year in college. Between Phoebe's skepticism and Melissa's denials, Rachel kisses Melissa again, rekindling the latter's bisexual nature and her attraction to Rachel. Rachel, however, rejects her.

In the season finale, together with Phoebe, Rachel finds the pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom. Despite telling Phoebe that Monica is pregnant, Rachel hides her pregnancy until the start of Season 8.

Season 8Edit

This is the season which focuses on Rachel's pregnancy. The pilot of the season (The One After 'I Do') is when she confesses her pregnancy to her friends Phoebe and Monica, and in the following episode (The One With The Red Sweater) she confesses her pregnancy to Joey and Tag, and she tells the father in The One Where Rachel Tells Ross. She is also the one to make the first move with Ross, which can be seen in The One With The Video Tape. Rachel wants to date in spite of being pregnant, and she goes out with Kash Ford (in The One With Rachel's Date), but by telling him of her pregnancy, he blows her off. Just on the verge of telling Ross of a possible re-kindling of a relationship, she gets blown off by Ross for Mona at the coffee-house. She is also the reason why Ross and Mona break up (in The One With The Birthing Video).

As the season progresses, Rachel becomes the source of Joey's attraction, and possibly only love, which he talks about to his other friends in The One Where Chandler Takes A Bath. The episodes The One Where Joey Dates Rachel and The One Where Joey Tells Rachel are the ones in which Joey starts to see Rachel in this new light, but his confession of love are rejected by Rachel, who simply does not look at him that way. This is the cause of some uncomfortable situations between the two (in The One With The Tea Leaves).

Season 8 is when it becomes known of Ross' past grudge for Rachel, one which is pointed out by Will Colbert (played by special guest star Brad Pitt, then Aniston's husband). Together with Will, Ross co-founded an "I Hate Rachel Green" club in high school (formed by only three people, one of whom was foreign and totally unaware of what the club was about) and spread out the rumor that Rachel was a hermaphrodite. This led to Rachel telling everyone she knew about Ross and the library woman he made out with. In The One In Massapequa, Rachel discovers Ross' plans of how he would have proposed to her if they were still together.

By the end of the season, Rachel wins over most of the attention, first by moving in with Ross (The One With The Birthing Video) and denying him dates (The One With The Cooking Class); her lateness of the delivery of the baby (The One Where Rachel Is Late), which becomes the source of Phoebe's and Monica's bets; and her actual delivery of baby Emma, in The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 1 and The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 2. The season ends with Joey showing Rachel the ring belonging to Ross in a kneeling position, which Rachel takes as Joey proposing to her. She accepts the proposal (during which Joey does not utter a single word) while Ross is coming to her room to talk about the possibility of dating again.

Season 9Edit

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Rachel is now not only a mother to Emma, but also a fiancée for Joey, whose unintentional proposal she accepted. Ross finds out about the whole incident, and accuses Rachel of accepting genuinely the proposal because he sees her wearing the ring. Eventually matters are cleared out.

Raising Emma with Ross seems quite easy at the beginning, with minor incidents. Such incidents are, for the most part, rather casual, such as the conflicts on the choice of nanny in The One With The Male Nanny, refusing to sing 'Baby Got Back' to make Emma laugh and then actually singing it to her in The One With Ross' Inappropriate Song, and the encounter with Rachel's sister Amy in The One With Rachel's Other Sister).

However, things start to change in The One With Rachel's Phone Number, when Ross, who was still not going out on dates and seeing other people, gets to learn that Rachel is preferring dates with guys from bars to commitment with him. As a result, he keeps Bill's number (Bill is a guy who Rachel meets with Phoebe on girls' night out) from her. Things for Rachel get even more complicated when she kisses Gavin, her new colleague, during her birthday party (in The One With Phoebe's Rats), a kiss which Ross sees from his apartment. When he brings home a rebound date (in The One Where Monica Sings), Rachel learns about Bill's phone number and gets so angry at Ross that she moves back with Joey. She and Joey now share no awkward feelings, as his feelings for Rachel are gone.

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As time goes by, however, new feelings start to grow – this time the other way round. After watching Joey rehearse a love scene for 'Days of our Lives', Rachel dreams that she's helping out Joey study his lines, but is completely turned on by him. She kisses him, at which point the dream ends. She decides to tell Joey in The One With The Soap Opera Party, but Charlie gets with Joey before Rachel can tell him anything. Because she's with the guy she wants, Rachel mostly maintains a cold rapport with Charlie, until the trip to Barbados. Charlie breaks up with Joey to get with Ross. Joey tells this to Rachel, and gets out of her the fact that she likes him, which makes his feelings resurface. After both agree not to do anything not to hurt Ross, Joey sees Ross kissing Charlie. Upon seeing them, he walks slowly and steadily to Rachel's room, knocks on her door, and when Rachel opens, he kisses her, closing the door and the ninth season.

Season 10Edit

In the tenth season, Rachel starts with Joey as a boyfriend. She and Joey have no imminent plans on how to tell Ross, but this is taken care of by its own, however, as Ross sees them kiss goodnight by the end of the season pilot. A whole episode follows this incident, The One Where Ross Is Fine, where it becomes immediately clear that Ross is by no means fine with his ex and his best friend, but will support them anyway.

Rachel also focuses more and more on her daughter Emma, and throws off a one-year birthday party for her in The One With The Cake, in which instead of a bunny-face cake, she gets her daughter a penis-shaped one. She lets her sister Amy babysit Emma for an afternoon, during which Emma has her ears pierced by her aunt Amy. Rachel also enters her daughter in a baby beauty contest in The One With The Late Thanksgiving, which Emma won. In The One With The Home Study, Rachel gets over-protective about Emma, and does not want to let her on the swings.

Together with Phoebe, Rachel discover Chandler's quest of looking for houses, which Monica confirms (after correcting Rachel and Phoebe that Chandler was not in fact cheating on her, something which the girls thought). In The One Where Joey Speaks French, Rachel's father has a heart attack. The grief of the news is such that the looks for Ross for sympathy sex, an offer which he rejects. They consider sleeping together as "off the table", but she ends the episode saying: "With us, it's never off the table". In The One Where The Stripper Cries, it gets known that Rachel and Chandler made out in her high school years. Rachel is also one of Phoebe's bridesmaids in The One With Phoebe's Wedding.

Series FinaleEdit

The season, and ultimately the series, culminates around Rachel, who gets a new job offer from Louis Vuitton in Paris, France, which she accepts. Monica organizes a going-away party where Rachel gives individual goodbyes to all except Ross, who goes to yell at her at Joey's. She reacts at his apartment, explaining that he was the hardest to say goodbye to, and that his interpretation of this refusal shows how little he knew her in spite of all they've been through for the past ten years, and ends up giving him the toughest of goodbyes. Just as she's about to leave, Ross kisses her, and she sleeps with him.

The next day, she admits to Ross that their final night together was "the perfect way to say goodbye". She goes to the airport, but Ross wants her with him and start everything over again. He reaches her at the airport (after going to the wrong one first) and confesses his love. His pleads for her to stay confuse her, and she gets on the plane anyway. A broken-hearted Ross goes to the apartment and checks out the messages on his answering machines. The one he hears is from Rachel, who confronts an air hostess and gets her message cut midway while trying to get off the plane. Ross questions whether Rachel did get off the plane, the answer to which stands right behind him at the apartment door -- a tearful Rachel who gets back together with Ross.

It is possible that they married again, but sources are still not completely certain. This is only known by a hint in the season premiere of the spin-off Joey where Joey states that all his friends were married, settled and started a family.

PersonalityEdit

Rachel's personality evolved somewhat over the series. Early on, the focus was on her as a spoiled daddy's girl stereotype, although later in the series, especially after having her baby, Rachel became less self-absorbed. However, she was still the friend most focused on her image and very selfish.

Rachel's catchphrase or famous line is "Noooooooo!" which is used mostly in the later series. However, in one of Season 5 episodes, Rachel and Monica are playing back a message left by Ross' ex-wife Emily at his apartment, where Monica says "Noooooo!" to which Rachel responds with Monica's line "I know!"

Multiple times, Rachel has proved herself to be a near complete wimp. In The One With The Ballroom Dancing, it was revealed that she had never taken the trash out in her life. She was then yelled at by Treeger for clogging up the trash chute, and came back to the apartment in tears. She completely exaggerated the situation, even going as far as to say that she had been almost killed when all he had done was yell at her. Later, when Monica said that she always cried, Rachel tearfully denied this. In The One With The Cheap Wedding Dress, when she, Phoebe, and Monica visited a huge sale in Brooklyn to retrieve Monica's wedding dress, Rachel was found by Phoebe, huddled in a rack, terrified, blowing her panic whistle. When told by Phoebe to get up, because they had to help Monica, Rachel insisted that Phoebe hold her hand.

RelationshipsEdit

MonicaEdit

One of Rachel's closest was Monica, her friend since high school. In their high school years, it is revealed that Rachel was a popular cheerleader with a string of boyfriends, while Monica was her less attractive and overweight best friend. They lost contact for a number of years, but became close again when Rachel left Barry before their wedding and chose to move in with Monica.

It is revealed that Monica didn't expect to become close friends with Rachel again, as during a flashback episode, set a year before Rachel's scheduled wedding to Barry, Monica and Rachel have a chance encounter, resulting in Monica remarking: "Ten bucks says I'll never see that woman again in my life."

During the period that they lived together, Rachel is revealed to be an exceptionally good roommate. As Monica tells Phoebe, Rachel has sweet little quirks, such as folding back the pages in catalogues of things she thinks Monica would like. She also leaves messages on the mirror when Monica takes a shower, and lets Monica borrow her hundred-plus pairs of boots.

Their living situation lasted for the first 5 seasons until eventually Chandler moved in with Monica during Season 6. Rachel's moving out drew the two women to tears.

PhoebeEdit

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Rachel's other best friend was Phoebe Buffay. Phoebe first met Rachel in the pilot episode when Rachel leaves Barry and comes to live with Monica. In a season 5 episode "The One With The Kips", Phoebe and Rachel consider starting a new group of friends with Joey after Emily (Ross' wife at the time) demands that Ross doesn't see Rachel anymore. Rachel says "We can start a new group, you and me, we're the best ones" to which Phoebe responds "Okay. But let's try to get Joey." This never happened as Ross could not go without seeing Rachel and the group remained as it was.

From seasons 6-7, Rachel and Phoebe lived together after Chandler and Monica moved in together at Monica's apartment. In "The One Where Ross Dates A Student", Phoebe and Rachel's apartment catches fire, causing Phoebe to temporarily live in Monica's apartment and Rachel to live in Joey's. Later on in "The One With The Holiday Armadillo", the apartment is fixed and Phoebe and Rachel decide to move back in, however the repair work left them with only one bedroom, so Phoebe decides to live there on her own while Rachel continues to live with Joey.

JoeyEdit

Joey and Rachel first meet in the pilot episode after Rachel leaves Barry at the altar. They became close friends. Later on in the series, Joey and Rachel have a brief relationship. In the episode "The One With The Donor", Phoebe learns about Rachel's feelings for Joey. Then in the episode "The One In Barbados, Part One", Ross and Charlie Wheeler (his female work associate) discover that they have a lot in common, while Joey and Rachel discover their feelings for each other. Earlier on in the series, Joey was jealous of Chandler and Monica's love for each other, so he thought that he might be able to have a relationship with Rachel since they are already friends. Then in the episode "The One In Barbados, Part Two", Joey and Rachel finally decide they are going to be a couple. In the episode "The One Where Ross Is Fine", Ross pretends to be fine with Rachel dating Joey, but really isn't, so he acts really crazy when he and Charlie decide that they were going to have a relationship and had Rachel and Joey over for a "Double Date." Later that episode, Ross said that he was really fine. In the episode "The One With Ross' Tan", Joey and Rachel decide that dating each other is too weird, with their attempts to go further than kissing hampered by their complete awareness that it is the other touching them, so they just decided to be friends. Rachel and Joey became much better friends after Rachel moved in, the two growing extremely close.

ChandlerEdit

Rachel and Chandler met in the 1980s when she was introduced to him through her best friend Monica's brother Ross. Their first meeting was at a Thanksgiving celebration at the Geller home. The pair met again at a party at Ross and Chandler's college in the winter of 1987, as revealed in the Season 10 episode "The One Where The Stripper Cries". At this party, Chandler and a drunk Rachel shared a kiss (but it was revealed that the only reason Chandler kissed Rachel was to get back at Ross for kissing a girl he liked). In 1993, they met again at a bar which would be torn down to make room for the gang's frequent hangout spot Central Perk. Rachel hadn't seen Monica, Ross, or Chandler since her days in high school. At the bar, Chandler overhears Rachel talking to some friends about how she wants to have one last night of meaningless sex before her marriage to Barry, and that she wants to have it with the first guy she lays her eyes on, which happens to be Chandler. They never did hook up, but Rachel did fantasize over him, regretting not letting him take her, but by this time it was too late. This was shown in the Season 3 episode "The One With The Flashback".

At the start of the show, Rachel and Chandler would cross paths again, this time in 1994, when Rachel, having just left Barry at the altar, storms into Central Perk looking for Monica. Through the course of the series, Rachel and Chandler's relationship grows, and they share a close friendship, often consoling and confiding in one another; on one particular occasion they shared a stolen cheesecake with each other and concealed it from the others. Particularly in earlier seasons, they go out to lunch together a few times. Despite, the closeness of the friendship of all six, it is arguably quite apparent that Chandler and Rachel are the two friends who interact with each other the least.

When Rachel says goodbye to each friend individually, her goodbye with Chandler is short and sweet, with Chandler simply telling her that he loves her, and that he will miss her.

RossEdit

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Rachel is perhaps most famous for her turbulent relationship with Monica's brother Ross Geller. Ross had apparently harboured a crush for Rachel since ninth grade. When Rachel moved to the city, Ross tried to re-kindle his affection, and after a rocky start the two finally got together in The One With The Prom Video. After an argument over Rachel's friendship with a male co-worker, Rachel announced that they were taking "a break". Ross, thinking that Rachel was ending the relationship, got so drunk that he slept with "the cute girl from the copy place", Chloe. When Rachel found out, she broke up with Ross in a famous scene that involved Ross and Rachel arguing in Monica's living room whilst the other four friends were trapped in Monica's bedroom. From then on, the two shared an almost-on again-almost-off again relationship. First, Ross said Rachel's name instead of Emily's at his disastrous wedding ceremony in London. Later, on a trip to Las Vegas, the two got married after a drinking binge. Unable to get an annulment, they had to divorce, despite Ross' panic over being a "triple divorcee". Rachel and Ross later had a baby, Emma, who was conceived after a one-night stand, although they chose to remain just friends and live together to raise Emma. Eventually, in the final season, Rachel and Ross finally got together after she almost moved to Paris for a new job.

In the first episode of the spin-off Joey, Joey hints that Ross and Rachel had surely married by saying that all of his friends are wed.

Emma Geller-GreenEdit

Emma is Ross and Rachel's daughter. Rachel's pregnancy was originally revealed in the season finale of Season 7. Emma is born in "The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part Two." The name Emma was originally chosen by Monica as the name she wanted to use for her future daughter. Before deciding on "Emma", Ross and Rachel discussed several other names like "Delilah" (nixed because Rachel felt it made her sound like "a Biblical whore") and "Isabella." However, ironically, in a season 2 episode, Ross states he would name his daughter "Emily", but it is possible that Ross decided against this name after his failed disaster of a marriage to second wife Emily. While still living with Ross and Rachel, Emma laughs at her parents singing "Baby Got Back", Rachel is afraid to admit that she cannot make her laugh any other way. Until they get into a fight and Rachel moves in with Joey, Emma lives with both parents. In the series finale, her parents reconcile, and it was hinted on Joey that all Joey's friends had wed and settled down.

FamilyEdit

Like all the main characters, Rachel has problems within her family.

In a way quite reminiscent of Monica's mother, Mrs. Green has a way of being quite dominating and unpleasant without going too much overboard. She's also quite harsh when it comes to her opinions (such as, for instance, when she suggested moving into Ross's apartment after Emma's birth and saying that his "dinosaur things" belonged in the garbage). It is implied that Rachel was quite like Mrs. Green before she decided to turn things around and start a life in the city, running away from her marriage, whereas Mrs. Green actually got married to "her Barry." During her first visit, she actually says that Rachel's life is what she wants.

Dr. Green, however, is quite a dominating but nonetheless equally harsh man when it comes to speaking. He's very concerned about discipline. He has a striking sense of sarcasm and what he deems right or wrong, but he's not afraid of spoiling his daughters (as shown in one episode when Rachel reveals that her father bought her "her own boat" to cheer her up after her "pony was sick"). However, when disagreeing with them, he disables their unlimited use of money. However, despite being quite generous when it comes to his daughters, he shares very little of his wealth with others, as reflected when he leaves a 2% tip at a restaurant after going out to eat with Rachel and Ross.

Rachel's parents have had barely any love life, as they married for the sake of money; according to Rachel, they barely even spoke (except when they argued) and ended up getting divorced in Season 2. They could not be in the same room as each other, as shown when the Friends throw Rachel two birthday parties at the same time; one with Rachel's mother in Monica's apartment and one with her father in Joey and Chandler's.

Rachel also has two sisters, Jill and Amy, with whom she has a typical sibling-rivalry relationship; when they were younger, they would constantly pull pranks on each other. Jill is supposedly her "favorite" sister, despite being extremely spoiled, and during her visit when their father decides to financially cut her off, Jill decides to start dating Ross, but ends up doing it to get back at Rachel (Only for Ross to cut it short because he didn't want to know that nothing could ever happen between him and Rachel).

Unlike Jill, who at least found Ross "cute, but nerdy," Amy does not even recognize him and believes he's a falafel-seller. In spite of her tactless nature, it is also revealed that Amy is the "bitter" one, as questioned by Phoebe in the Thanksgiving episode in which Amy comes to spend the holidays with the Friends. Rachel also doesn't seem quite as close to Amy as to Jill; when Amy visits during Emma's first Thanksgiving in the ninth season, she only says Hi, but then tells her she came by to borrow a hair-straightener, and saying how "Emmett" is cute, then realizing the baby is a girl.

In "The One With Rachel's Phone Number", some guys in a bar live in her grandmother's building. Her grandma's name is Ida Green and the mens' affectionate nickname for her is "Spuds". Rachel says that she has "no sense of personal space, kinda smells like chicken, looks like a potato--that's my bubbe!" This is another indication that the character is of Jewish descent; the word "bubbe" means "grandmother" in Yiddish.

Other relationshipsEdit

• Barry Farber
• Paolo
• Joshua Bergin
• Paul Stevens
• Tag Jones
• Gavin Mitchell
• Joey Tribbiani
• Russ

CareerEdit

Rachel gets her first job as a waitress at Central Perk. She turns out to be hopeless, taking long breaks to sit with her friends and regularly mixing up orders. In the third season, after encouragement from Joey and Chandler she quits her coffee shop job to enter a career in fashion, working as a personal assistant at Fortunata Fashions. Later on, she gets a job as an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's with the help of colleague Mark, but after Mark leaves and her boss Joanna dies, her department is closed out and she is demoted to personal shopper. She then becomes a buyer at Ralph Lauren, where she memorably has an affair with her assistant, Tag Jones. In a few episodes, when acquaintances are impressed by Rachel's occupation and query whether Rachel knows Ralph Lauren himself, she always says that she does. However, when they reply "really?" she admits she actually does not.

In the final episodes of the last season, Rachel is fired from Ralph Lauren when her boss overhears her having a job interview with Gucci. She is then offered a lucrative job in Paris with Louis Vuitton by her ex-colleague Mark. Upset by Rachel's impending move to Paris, Ross, through bribery, manages to convince Rachel's old boss from Ralph Lauren to give Rachel her job back for more money than the offer in Paris. Initially, Rachel declines this offer and decides to accept the job with Louis Vuitton. However, she cancels her plans to leave New York after she realizes she is still in love with Ross.

DwellingsEdit

Rachel has lived with all of the friends at some stage. For six years, Rachel lived in Monica's apartment and they had a likeable, enduring chemistry which was to become one of the main elements of the show. She then moved in with Phoebe, with whom she squabbled over things like Pottery Barn furniture and their morning jogging routine. After her and Phoebe's apartment burned down, she moved in with Joey, but then after having her baby moved in with Ross. Later, she moved back in with Joey again.

It is often incorrectly stated that she has never lived with Chandler, however, in the previously mentioned episode in which her and Phoebe's apartment burned down, she briefly moves back into Monica's apartment (in which Chandler is also a resident) before moving in with Joey the next day (as punishment) after it is discovered that it was her abandoned hair straighteners which she had left turned on that started the fire.

SurnameEdit

Some inconsistency in the spelling of the surname has led to confusion as to the correct spelling. In the credits it is spelled as "Green" when referring to the surnames of her parents. However, within the show itself it has been spelled "Greene," including when her name was written on an invitation sent out by Ross and a subsequent RSVP. The name plate on her office door also says Greene. Also in the hospital, when Emma is in the caring room her name tag says "greene".

The subtitles of the DVDs change: in the earliest seasons' DVDs it's spelled Greene, then changing it to Green.

Age and birthdayEdit

Although Rachel's age is treated inconsistently by the show's writers, like all birthdays, the best evidence is that she was born on May 5, 1970 or 1971.

Month and DayEdit

In season four's "The One With Joey's New Girlfriend", Rachel tells Gunther her birthday is May 5, and this is consistent with the month of birthday parties thrown for her on the show, e.g. the party in season one's "The One Where Rachel Finds Out", which aired in May, 1995, and season five's month-early surprise party in "The One Where Rachel Smokes", which aired in April 1999. Rachel's thirtieth birthday, however, is celebrated in February in season seven's "The One Where They All Turn Thirty", which aired on February 8, 2001. (There is no question that the party is on the birthday itself: Rachel at one point says "In Guam I'm still 29".) Rachel also mentions that her birthday is after Valentine's Day in "The One With The Girl From Poughkeepsie" ("next thing you know, it'll be Valentine's Day, then my birthday, then... Bang! They're lighting that damned tree again".) A birthday in February is also consistent with Rachel's statement to a police officer in season seven that she is an Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) - May 5th would make her a Taurus.

Year of BirthEdit

A thirtieth birthday in 2001 (season seven's "The One Where They All Turn Thirty") implies that Rachel was born in 1971. Her thirtieth birthday is celebrated as the last while the thirtieth birthday of others are shown in the flashback which makes her the youngest of all six. However, a twenty-ninth birthday in 1999 (season five's "The One Where Rachel Smokes") implies that she was born in 1970. In other episodes, Rachel's stated age is inconsistent with birth in either 1970 or 1971, and advances at varying speeds. Chandler refers to her as 28 in season three's "The One Where Rachel Quits" (December 12, 1996), but 15 months later Rachel describes herself as "a 28-year old cheerleader with a fat lip" in season four's "The One with The Fake Party" (March 19, 1998). While these differences appear as inconsistencies, it may be in keeping with Rachel's character to shield her actual age.

Technically, this is how Rachel's age should have gone during the series; 1 (26-27), 2 (27-28), 3 (28-29), 4 (29-30), 5 (30-31), 6 (31-32), 7 (32-33), 8 (33-34), 9 (34-35), 10 (35-36).

TriviaEdit

• Before Jennifer Aniston was cast, Leah Remini was supposed to play Rachel.
• Rachel, like Joey, Ross, and Chandler, has kissed all five of her fellow Friends cast members. She kissed
  • Ross - numerous times during the course of the show, the first on-screen kiss being in The One With The East German Laundry Detergent and the last one in The Last One;
  • Chandler - at a college party in "The One Where The Stripper Cries" and again in "The One With All The Kissing";
  • Joey - "The One With All The Resolutions" and numerous times during their brief relationship during the tenth season;
  • Phoebe - as an experiment (initiated by Phoebe) after Rachel's dinner with her former sorority sister Melissa in The One With Rachel's Big Kiss;
  • Monica after striking a deal with Chandler and Joey to get their apartment back if they kissed for one minute in front of them (though this is off-screen);
• One of Rachel's trademark expressions when shocked or angry was to drag out the enunciation of the word "no", usually with deep inflection. This was periodically paired with Monica's "I know!"
• Two of Jennifer Aniston's real life boyfriends portrayed characters on the show: Tate Donovan as Rachel's boyfriend Joshua during the fourth season (from The One With Rachel's Crush to The One With All The Wedding Dresses) and Brad Pitt as Will, a high school classmate whose intense dislike of Rachel was revealed when he came to Thanksgiving dinner in "The One With The Rumor". (Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were actually married by the time the episode aired).

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