Cameron Diaz

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Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model.

Biography

Early life

Her Cuban-American[link] father Emilio Diaz worked as a foreman for an oil company, and her mother Billie Early (whose ancestry includes English, German, and Native American) worked as an exporting agent.

Cameron attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School. At age 16, she landed a modeling contract with the prestigious Elite Model Management. After graduating high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America, she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies.

Career

At the age of 21, Diaz auditioned for Jim Carrey's The Mask. To her own surprise, and with no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead. Immediately after getting the part, she signed up for acting lessons.

Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's The One.

She then regained mainstream success with My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, and won critical acclaim for Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

Diaz has also starred in the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels and , and she voiced a lead character in Shrek and its sequel, for which she earned $10 million. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky. For , she became the second actress (after Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role; the film underperformed at the box office.

Future work for Diaz include roles in Nancy Meyers' The Holiday in 2006 and Shrek 3 in 2007.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Shrek the Third		voice
2006	In Search of Ted Demme		Documentary
	The Holiday
2005	In Her Shoes	Maggie Feller
2004	Shrek 2	Fiona	Voice
2003		Natalie Cook
	Cowboy Bebopthe live action film
	Shrek 4-D	Fiona	Voice; short subject
2002	Gangs of New York	Jenny Everdeane
	Minority Report		Uncredited as woman on train
	The Sweetest Thing	Christina Walters
	Slackers		cameo
2001	Vanilla Sky	Julianna Gianni
	Shrek	Fiona	Voice
	The Invisible Circus
2000	Welcome to Hollywood		Documentary
	Charlie's Angels	Natalie
	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
1999	Any Given Sunday
	Being John Malkovich	Lotte Schwartz
	Man Woman Film
1998	Very Bad Things
	There's Something About Mary
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1997	A Life Less Ordinary
	My Best Friend's Wedding
	Keys to Tulsa
1996	Head Above Water
	Feeling Minnesota
	She's the One
1995	The Last Supper
1994	The Mask	Tina Carlyle

Trivia

• In 2004, a commercial S&M video of Diaz and another girl torturing another man leaked to the Internet. She made the video when she was 19. Diaz filed a suit against the Russian Internet site that distributed the video, but the video file is now distributed by many porn sites and Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

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• Diaz has been vocal in her opposition to US President George W. Bush. Before 2000's election, Diaz once wore a shirt that said "I WON'T VOTE FOR A SON OF A BUSH!" while promoting Charlie's Angels. During an Oprah appearance before 2004's election, Diaz said "Women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote..."
• Cameron Diaz is currently dating Justin Timberlake. In October 2004, they were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph the couple, the celebrities snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in Us Weekly. Representatives for the couple claimed that they were "ambushed" and acting out of self-defense.
• Her favourite soccer team is Brentford. Sometimes she can be seen wearing a red and white woolly hat.
• In 2005, Cameron revealed that during her school days, she was called Skeletor, a villain in He-Man cartoon, by her classmates. Many tabloids published this.
• Diaz was the host of the 2005 MTV television series Trippin'.
• In 2006, Diaz was voted as one of the worst celebrity autograph signers, according to a list from Autograph Collector magazine:

"Cameron Diaz may be a talented actress, but she's persistently a terrible signer. Instead of just turning down a person's autograph request, she'll lecture them about how dumb autographs are."[link]

She drives a Toyota Prius.

Maxim Magazine ranked Cameron #22 in their annual hot 100 in 2004, then she ranked #11 in 2005. In 2006 she made the top 10 by ranking in at #7

She is very superstitious.

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