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Cameron Michelle Diaz (born
August 30,
1972) is a
Golden Globe-,
BAFTA- and
SAG-Award nominated
American actress and former
fashion model. She is one of only two actresses (the other being
Julia Roberts) to join the "
$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for .
Biography
Early life
Cameron Diaz was born in
Compton, California, the daughter of Billie (
née Early), and the late Emilio Diaz, who worked for UNOCAL a local California oil company as a Field Gauger and in the pipeline department for twenty plus years until he retired in 1998. Her father was a second-generation Cuban American and her mother is of
English,
German and
Cherokee Native American ancestry. She has one older sister, Chimene. She attended
Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper
Snoop Dogg.
Career
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,
She's no Angel.
At 21, Diaz auditioned for
The Mask. Even though she'd no previous acting experience, she obtained the role of 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 . 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.
Diaz returned to the screen for
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 dropped out to star in
In Her Shoes. She will also appear in
Shrek 4 and in the romantic comedy
What Happens in Vegas, opposite Ashton Kutcher. She is also set to star in
The Box, a
horror thriller in 2008 co-starring
James Marsden.
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.
Relationships
Diaz dated actor
Matt Dillon from 1995 to 1998. She is also the ex-fiancée of actor/musician
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'd broken up, following weeks of breakup rumors.
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.
Personal life
Diaz has publicly admitted that she's
obsessive-compulsive disorder, is deeply
germophobic and habitually rubs doorknobs so hard before opening doors to clean them that the original paint fades afterwards. She says she washes her hands and floors "many times" each day and uses her elbows to push open doors. Diaz commented on her progress with the disorder on
May 10,
2007, saying, "I think I've made my peace with it".
Diaz received "substantial"
defamation damages from suing
American Media Incoporated, after
The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-boyfriend Timberlake. Diaz also sued successfully to stop the publication of
bondage-themed nude photos taken of her before she became famous.
When Diaz was asked if she can speak
Spanish she said:
I go, "God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you're saying, I really do. I just can't 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.
Diaz is currently represented by
Creative Artists Agency.
On
April 15,
2008, her father, Emilio Diaz, died of
pneumonia, aged 58.
Awards and nominations
Filmography
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