So the career of the stars went after Friends

Joey / Matt LeBlanc was with the Joey series the only friends who got a spin off. The critics judged it outright, but the viewership figures were enough for NBC to give it two seasons.

Things went better in the episodes series a few years later where LeBlanc plays a fictitious version of himself.

Nowadays he is one of the program leaders in the British car program Top Gear. Curiosity: He plays young tattooed looking in Tom Petty's video In to the great wide open 1991.

Monica / Corteney Cox was the one who had the most success on the white screen of the six friends over the course of the series, most notably with the role of television reporter Gale Weathers in Was Craven's Scream films. But besides repeating that particular role in 2011 in Scream 4, she has not done any major movie roles after Friends.

She played the lead role in what ever appreciated the series Cougar Town, which ran for six seasons between 2009-2015.

Curiosity: She plays the young girl who dances with Bruce Springsteen on stage at the end of the 1984 video for Dancing in the dark.

Ross / David Schwimmer had before friends had minor roles in countless popular TV series. On scouting in New York, Law Angels, Blossom and A wonderful time for example.

During the course of the series he also made some major film roles in the romcom compartment and also played in the critically acclaimed miniseries Band of Brothers 2001.

He has a role in Steven Soderberg's film the Laundromat, which recently competed for the Golden Lion in Venice, but the biggest success after Friends is the voice of the hypochondriac giraffe Melman in the Madagascar films.

Curiosity: Played patient in a section of the Police squad in 1982, the television series that preceded the Naked Gun movies.

Chandler / Matthew Perry Made the successful US torpedo between Bruce Willis in 2000 and a fairly successful sequel to 2004, the year Friends ended. Many predicted a decent future in Hollywood's crunch box for Perry.

But instead he jumped on White House creator Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 project on the sunset strip. It was praised by the critics but viewers failed and the series closed in 2007 after just one season.

Curious: Played popular and sporty highschool guy in a section of Beverly Hills 1991.

Rachel / Jennifer Aniston is the one who made the biggest name in Hollywood after the end of the series. Almost exclusively typecast in romantic comedies such as ... And then came Polly, Bruce the Almighty, Marley and I and The Bounty Hunter and more.

In recent years, even some more effervescent and crazy characters, like in the Family Trip and Horrible bosses.

Curiosity: Like fellow colleague Matt LeBlanc, he has been featured in a Tom Petty video. In the 1996 video for Walls, she plays woman in braids by cage.

Phoebe / Lisa Kudrow played in the Hollywood successes Analyze more and Analyze even more while making Friends. But there have been no more films with counterparts of the caliber Robert DeNiro.

However, she has made the HBO series The Comeback, whose second season came in 2014 and which was praised by the critics.

She has also made the voice for Wanda Pierce in the popular animated series BoJack Horseman.

Kurisa: Played the role of Ursula Buffay in the popular series Galen in You before she landed the role in Friends and then continued to play them, in both series at the same time.