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Cameron Diaz
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| Birth name | Cameron Michelle Diaz | |||||
| Born | August 30, 1972 San Diego, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | fashion model (1988-1993) actress (1993-present) |
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Cameron Michelle Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in blockbuster movies such as The Mask, There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding, Charlie's Angels, Shrek, and Gangs of New York. Diaz was the second of three actresses to join the coveted "$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle[citation needed].
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Diaz was born in San Diego, California to Emilio Diaz and Billie (née Early).[1] Diaz's father is a second-generation Cuban-American[2] and her mother has German, English And Native American descent, .[3][4][5] Diaz attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg.
At 16 she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. After graduating from 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. She modelled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. She also graced the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine. During this period she also made a brief but now notorious soft pornographic film. [6]
At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask. Even though she had no previous acting experience,[7] she obtained the cast as the female lead. She signed up for acting lessons right after getting the part. 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 her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.
During the 1999-2000 period, Diaz starred in many films, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, A Life Less Ordinary, Any Given Sunday, and the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, for which she earned $10 million. In 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York, and became the second actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. After Full Throttle, Diaz only appeared in three films, Shrek 2, In Her Shoes and The Holiday . During 2004 and early 2005, Diaz explored some of the planet's environmentally unique locations while discovering ways to help preserve them for the 10-episode MTV series Trippin' which featured numerous celebrities and friends of Diaz, such as Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Mark Hoppus, Eva Mendes and Justin Timberlake.
Future work for Diaz includes a role in Shrek the Third in 2007, where she co-stars with former boyfriend Justin Timberlake. She was set to team up again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey in the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but she dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. She will also appear in Shrek 4. She will also star in The Box, a horror thriller which is due to start filming in November 2007. [8]
On July 7, 2007, Diaz participated at Live Earth in New York by introducing Bon Jovi and The Police. In 2007, People ranked her as the Best Dressed Female Celebrity.
Diaz dated actor Matt Dillon from 1995 to 1998. She is also the ex-fiancée of actor, musician, and guitarist Jared Leto. They had a low-profile relationship from 1998 to 2002. There had been reports that Leto had broken up with Diaz because he was jealous of her increasing acting popularity. Other reports have said that they broke up because Diaz was concentrating more on her acting as Leto was more concerned about his band.
Most recently, Diaz dated former *NSYNC member Justin Timberlake, whom she met at the Kids' Choice Awards in 2003. The pair issued a joint statement on January 11, 2007, announcing they had broken up, following weeks of breakup rumors.[9]
In October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in US Weekly. Representatives for the pair claimed that they were "ambushed" and acting out of self-defense.[10]
Diaz and Timberlake were involved in another incident while walking out of a friend's house. A photographer jumped out of bushes and photographed them. He then entered his car and allegedly drove it towards Diaz, who had to jump out of the way. Diaz pressed charges against the photographer, whose agency supported his actions as legal and safe[citation needed].
Diaz has publicly admitted that she has OCD, is deeply germophobic and habitually rubs doorknobs so hard before opening doors to clean them that the original paint fades afterwards and along with her floors, she says, she washes her hands "many times" each day and uses her elbows to push open doors.[11] Diaz has perhaps modified her fears somewhat, saying on May 10, 2007, "I think I've made my peace with it."[12]
Diaz received "substantial" libel damages from suing American Media Incoporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-boyfriend Timberlake.[13] Diaz also sued successfully to stop the publication of bondage-themed nude photos taken of her before she became famous. Photographer John Rutter was eventually convicted and sentenced to a jail term for actions related to trying to extort money from Diaz in return for keeping the pictures from becoming public.
When Diaz was asked if she can speak Spanish she said:
| “ | I know what you're saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly. I didn't grow up in a Cuban or Latin community. I grew up in Southern California on the beach, basically. And I'm third generation. I'm of Cuban descent, but I'm American.[14] | ” |
Diaz is currently represented by Creative Artists Agency.[8]
- 1999: Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for There's Something About Mary
- 2000: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich
- 2002: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Vanilla Sky
- 2002: SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for Vanilla Sky
- 2003: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Gangs of New York
- 2005: The Hitch
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| Preceded by Julie Christie for Afterglow |
NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1998 for There's Something About Mary |
Succeeded by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry |
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/63/Cameron-Diaz.html
- ^ http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?node=features/interviews/diaz
- ^ http://www.hilary.com/celebrity/cameron-diaz.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4717013.stm
- ^ http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/diaz.asp
- ^ "Diaz porn video surfaces on the internet".
- ^ Actress of the week - Cameron Diaz askmen.com accessed November 20 2006
- ^ a b "Box' is a dark place for Diaz", The Hollywood Reporter, 2006-06-29.
- ^ Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz call it quits CTV - E-Talk Daily January 11, 2007
- ^ Justin, Cameron Go Camera Shy E-online Joal Ryan - November 10 2004
- ^ Cameron Diaz on OCD Time Magazine November 10 1997
- ^ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 10, 2007
- ^ "Libel damages for US actress Diaz", BBC News, 2007-02-16. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
- ^ Personal Quotes
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| NAME | Diaz, Cameron Michelle |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | fashion model (1988-1993), actor (1993-present) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972-8-30 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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