Glasgow can claim to be home to some pretty big names of the silver screen.
But who knew we could lay claim to a star of the biggest sitcom hit of our generation?
Well, it seems we can add another name to the list of famous 'Glaswegians' (sort of) - Friends star Jennifer Aniston.
That's because Glasgow Live has uncovered ties of Aniston's to Glasgow through her family tree - meaning that Glaswegians with a certain surname might actually be related to the actress.
Aniston is the daughter of Greek-born actor John Aniston (born Yiannis Antonios Anastasakis) and actress Nancy Dow - whose father was Gordon McLean Dow, born in Maine in 1880.
You may have spotted the McLean bit in Jennifer's grandfather's name, signalling Scottish - and, as it turns out, Glaswegian - ancestry, which dates back to Gordon's Scottish great-grandfather Neil McLean.
Neil, the great-great-great grandfather of Hollywood star Aniston, was born in Glasgow in 1809, with his birth noted in the Old Parish register for the Parish of Glasgow.
He was named after his paternal grandfather, Neil MacLean of the Parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvicheon on the Isle of Mull, and was born a year after his parents - Angus McLean (a dyer) and Mary Sinclair - married at the Gaelic Chapel (St Columba Church of Scotland on St Vincent Street) in April of 1808.
Neil emigrated with his family from Glasgow to New Brunswick on the eastern coast of Canada in the early 1800s, with the 1851 Canadian census listing him as a farmer alongside his Aberdeen-born wife Jane and six children: Rebecca, James, Eliza, Neil, Angus and William.
Neil's son, also a Neil, moved to Aroostook County in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border, and fathered a girl in Sarah Ellen Dow (McLean) in 1880, with Sarah then giving birth to Gordon McLean Dow, Jennifer Aniston's grandfather, back in 1908.
Unfortunately, having three girls, Gordon never passed on the McLean name to any of his children, who all instead took the Dow name, with his daughter Nancy Ellen Dow marrying John Aniston in 1965 and giving birth to Jennifer Aniston in 1969.
Still, it's clear that the Friends actress has a strong claim to being of Scottish descent, dating back generations to the McLean family on her mother's side - all the way back to her great-great-great grandparent, Glasgow-born Neil McLean.
And it means that any descendants of Neil McLean - who had seven brothers and sisters in Donald, John, Agnes, Angus Jnr, Daniel, Elizabeth and Patrick - still living in Glasgow could be distant relations of Ms Aniston herself.
So if your surname is McLean (or MacLean as both spellings appear on the family tree) and your lineage can be traced back to Mull then there's a possibility that you are indeed a long-lost relative of the actress.
Just imagine; if you're a Friends mega fan or you had that 'Rachel' hairdo back in the day then this could be the news to make 2020 that bit less painful.
And in the meantime, if Jen feels like swapping Hollywood for Dear Auld Glasgow then we'll happily volunteer to show her round ...
