Cameron Diaz

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,  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, the youngest of two sisters, was born in  San Diego, California<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. 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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> for more than 20 years, as a field gauger. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Diaz has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family were  Cuban<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (of Spanish descent), and settled in  Tampa<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">'s  Ybor City<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, later moving to California, where Emilio was born. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Her mother has  German<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and  English<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> ancestry. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Diaz was raised in  Long Beach, California<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and attended  Long Beach Polytechnic High School<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Diaz attended the same high school with  Snoop Dogg<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, whom she says she "bought marijuana from."

Modeling
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">At age 16, she began her career as a fashion model, 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss_%26_Co. Levi's].When she was age 17, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.

[edit] Acting
Diaz at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival with Martin Scorsese andLeonardo DiCaprio for the movieGangs of New York.Tom Cruise and Diaz at the MTV Movie Awards, June 6, 2010<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">At age 19 Cameron Diaz starred in She's No Angel, a 1992 soft core bondage movie. 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. Diaz's performance as the sultry lounge singer Tina Carlyle earned her nominations for several awards and launched her as a sex symbol.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">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.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">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 ofCharlie'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 forVanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">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 Vegasopposite Ashton Kutcher, and the Shrek sequels. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">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 movieShrek 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1em;">[24]

[edit] Personal life
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;"> 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 12 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.

[edit] Relationships
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;"> 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 actorMatt 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.