Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz
Diaz at the 2012 premiere of What to Expect When You're Expecting
Born	Cameron Michelle Diaz (1972-08-30) August 30, 1972 San Diego, California, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles ( BHPO), California
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1988–1993 (model) 1994–present (actress)
Partner(s)	Carlos de la Torre (1990-1994) Matt Dillon (1995-1998) Jared Leto (1999-2004). Justin Timberlake (2003-2006) Alex Rodriguez (2010-2011)

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She rose to prominence during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona in the Shrek series, Knight and Day, The Holiday, The Green Hornet and Bad Teacher. Diaz received Golden Globe award nominations for her performances in the movies There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.

Early life

Cameron Diaz, was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie Joann (née Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Luis Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger. Diaz has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family were Cuban (of Spanish descent), and settled in Tampa's Ybor City, later moving to California, where Emilio was born. Her mother has German and English ancestry. Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California, and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Diaz attended the same high school with Snoop Dogg, whom she says she "bought marijuana from."

Career

Modeling

She began her career as a fashion model at age 16, and contracted with a modeling agency, Elite Model Management. For the next few years she worked around the world on contracts for companies such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was age 17 she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.

Acting

At age 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female main actress. Having no previous acting experience, she started acting lessons after being cast. The Mask became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994.

Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, Diaz avoided large studio films for the next three years and took roles in the independent films The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), She's the One (1996), and Head Above Water (1996). She was scheduled to feature in the film Mortal Kombat, but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role. During this time she earned considerable tabloid fame for being actor Matt Dillon's steady date, 1995 through 1998.

Diaz returned to mainstream films with My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary, both released in 1997. The following year, she played the title role in the smash hit There's Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category of Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards). Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz featured in many movies, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the successful adaptation of Charlie's Angels. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.

In 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's 2002 epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next movies were In Her Shoes (2005) and The Holiday (2006). She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes. Diaz reportedly earned $50 million during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher, and the Shrek sequels. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box.

In 2010, Forbes Magazine ranked Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic female celebrity, ranking number 60 among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz voiced Princess Fiona for the movie Shrek Forever After, and reunited with her Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise in the action adventure Knight and Day. In 2011, she played Lenore Case, the journalist in the remake of the 1940s film The Green Hornet, and was the central lead in the hit comedy Bad Teacher. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers. Diaz will play Miss Hannigan in a new film adaptation of the musical, Annie.

Personal life

Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on Justin Timberlake. She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Diaz wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity visits for Charlie's Angels. Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families. Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made twelve years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion. On April 15, 2008, Cameron's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.

Relationships

From 1990 to December 1994, Diaz cohabited with video producer Carlos de la Torre. In 1995, Diaz dated actor Vincent D'Onofrio during the production of Feeling Minnesota. Later in 1995, she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon. The relationship ended in December 1998. She began dating Jared Leto in 1999, and the couple became engaged in 2000. In 2003, they ended their four-year relationship. Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006. 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 acting a scene on a set. Diaz was in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez from July 2010 to September 2011.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	The Mask	Tina Carlyle
1995	The Last Supper	Jude
1996	She's the One	Heather Davis
1996	Feeling Minnesota	Freddie Clayton
1996	Head Above Water	Nathalie
1996	Keys to Tulsa	Trudy
1997	My Best Friend's Wedding	Kimmy Wallace	ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Blockbuster Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
1997	A Life Less Ordinary	Celine Naville
1998	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	TV reporter
1998	There's Something About Mary	Mary Jensen	American Comedy Award for Funniest Leading Actress in a Motion Picture Blockbuster Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1998	Very Bad Things	Laura Garrety
1999	Man Woman Film	Celebrity	Cameo
1999	Being John Malkovich	Lotte Schwartz	Nominated – American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1999	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her	Carol Faber
1999	The Invisible Circus	Faith
1999	Any Given Sunday	Christina Pagniacci	ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Drama
2000	Charlie's Angels	Natalie Cook	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action Team (shared with Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore) Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2001	Shrek	Princess Fiona	Voice
2001	Vanilla Sky	Julie Gianni	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – AFI Award for Best Actress Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002	The Sweetest Thing	Christina Walters
2002	Gangs of New York	Jenny Everdeane	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Natalie Cook	Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
2004	Shrek 2	Princess Fiona	Voice
2005	In Her Shoes	Maggie Feller	Nominated – Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
2006	The Holiday	Amanda Woods	Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2007	Shrek the Third	Princess Fiona	Voice
2007	Shrek the Halls	Princess Fiona	Voice
2008	What Happens in Vegas	Joy McNally
2009	My Sister's Keeper	Sara Fitzgerald	Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture
2009	The Box	Norma Lewis
2010	Shrek Forever After	Princess Fiona	Voice Nominated – Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2010	Scared Shrekless	Princess Fiona	Voice
2010	Knight and Day	June Havens
2011	The Green Hornet	Lenore Case
2011	Bad Teacher	Elizabeth Halsey	Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Actress: Comedy Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Musical or Comedy
2012	What to Expect When You're Expecting	Jules
2012	Gambit	PJ Puznowski
2012	A Liar's Autobiography	Sigmund Freud
2013	The Counselor	Malkina
2014	The Other Woman	TBA	Filming
2014	Annie	Miss Hannigan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Trippin'	Herself	Documentary
2008–2009	Saturday Night Live	Kiki Deamore	3 episodes
2009	Sesame Street	Herself
2010	Top Gear	Herself	Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2011	The X Factor	Herself	Guest judge