Jennifer Aniston is the daughter of actor John Aniston (originally Ioannis Anastassakis) and his then-wife Nancy Dow, who was also an actress; she has two half-brothers.Aniston`s godfather was the late Greek American actor Telly Savalas, who was her father`s best friend, and Aniston spent some of her childhood in Greece, but most of it in New York City, where her father appeared in the soap operas Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow.