Cameron Diaz
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 Diaz at the 2012 premiere of What to Expect When You're Expecting |
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| Born | Cameron Michelle Diaz August 30, 1972 San Diego, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1988–93 (model) 1993–present (actress) |
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She became famous 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, 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.
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[edit] Early life
Diaz, the younger of two daughters, was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie (née Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger.[1][2] Diaz has an older sister, Chimene.[3] Her father's family came from Cuba by way of Spain, before settling in Tampa's Ybor City, and eventually California, where Emilio was born.[4][5] Her mother is of English, German, and Cherokee descent.[6][7][8] Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.[3][9]
[edit] Career
[edit] Modeling
At age sixteen, she began her career as a fashion model, contracted with modeling agency Elite Model Management.[3] For the next few years, she worked around the world for contracts such as with major companies, modeling for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's.[3] When she was 17, she was featured on the front of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.[10]
[edit] Acting
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At age 21 Diaz auditioned for The Mask,[11] 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.[12] Diaz's performance as the sultry lounge singer "Tina Carlyle" earned her nominations for several awards[13] and launched her as a sex symbol.[14][15]
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.[16]
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.[3] She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, 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.[3] 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,[3] 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.[17][18][19] 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.[20][21] 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.[22]
[edit] Personal life
Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-paramour Justin Timberlake.[23] 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.[24] 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.[citation needed] Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic,[25] 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.[26] On April 15, 2008, Cameron's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.[27]
[edit] Relationships
From 1990 to December 1994, Diaz cohabited with video producer Carlos de la Torre.[28][29] In 1995, Diaz dated actor Vincent D'Onofrio during the production of Feeling Minnesota.[30] Later in 1995, she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon. The relationship ended in December 1998.[31] She began dating Jared Leto in 1999 and the couple became engaged in 2000.[32] In 2003, they ended their four-year relationship.[33] Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006.[31] 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.[34] Diaz was in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez from July 2010 to September 2011.[35]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ "Family ties, Father & mother". People. May 20, 2004. http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,639320_3,00.html. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ FilmReference.com: Cameron Diaz Biography (1972–)
- ^ a b c d e f g Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2005
- ^ YouTube interview about her Spanish-Cuban roots.
- ^ "CAMERON DIAZ: A Life Less Ordinary: Interview". Urbancinefile.com.au. http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=594&s=interviews. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ Jenkins, David (January 9, 2003). "Girl, interrupted". The Daily Telegraph (UK). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4729585/Girl-interrupted.html. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz: Hollywood crowd-pleaser". BBC News. July 29, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4717013.stm. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ Hawk, Mason (1998). "A Cheap Date With Cameron Diaz". NYRock. http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/diaz.asp. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz biography". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020297/bio. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ "Covers Throughout the Years – Historic Seventeen Magazine Covers". Seventeen. October 30, 2010. http://www.seventeen.com/fun/articles/65th-anniversary-cover-archive. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Actress of the week – Cameron Diaz askmen.com'.' Retrieved November 20, 2006.
- ^ "1994 DOMESTIC GROSSES, #1–50", Box Office Mojo
- ^ The Task (1994) – Awards IMDb
- ^ "Cameron Diaz: being a sex symbol is limiting". Topcelebrityheadlines.com. May 18, 2009. http://topcelebrityheadlines.com/cameron-diaz-being-a-sex-symbol-is-limiting/. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols". Channel 4. February 13, 2009. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-100-greatest-sex-symbols/articles/the-results. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz Was Almost In Mortal Kombat?". HEAVY. December 23, 2009. http://www.heavy.com/movies/2009/12/cameron-diaz-was-almost-in-mortal-kombat/. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Rose, Lacy (August 7, 2008). "Hollywood's Top-Earning Actresses". Forbes Magazine. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/07/diaz-knightly-aniston-biz-media-cx_lr_0811actresses.html. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
- ^ "Top 5 list of Hollywood's highest paid actresses." Hollyscoop.com 2008]
- ^ "Only women to make it into top earners." Adelaide Now
- ^ "Richest Hispanic Celebrities According to Forbes". Celestrellas.com. July 7, 2010. http://www.celestrellas.com/2010/07/07/richest-hispanic-celebrities-list-forbes/. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz Forbes 100 Celebrity list". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/53/celeb-100-10_Cameron-Diaz_9D3T.html. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ "Accomplished Women Entertainers". CEOWORLD magazine. May 18, 2011. http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2011/05/18/ceoworld-richest-women-in-entertainment-world-list-accomplished-women-entertainers.
- ^ "Libel damages for US actress Diaz". BBC News. February 16, 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6368533.stm. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ "LiberalArtists.com". LiberalArtists.com. http://www.liberalartists.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=52. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ Cameron Diaz on OCD Time Magazine November 10, 1997
- ^ Real Time with Bill Maher, Episode 159 (June 26, 2009)
- ^ "Cameron Diaz's father succumbs to pneumonia". April 16, 2008. http://entertainment.oneindia.in/hollywood/top-stories/scoop/2008/cameron-diaz-father-pneumonia-dead-160408.html. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/cameron_diaz/0,,,00.html
- ^ http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/cameron-diaz/biography/16?page=3
- ^ http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/cameron-diaz/biography/16?page=4
- ^ a b "Cameron Diaz Biography". Movies.yahoo.com. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020297/bio. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Mimon, Diana. "Cameron Diaz Biography". About.com. The New York Times Company. http://gossip.about.com/od/celebrityprofiles/p/Cameron_Diaz.htm. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ "Back on the Market". People (Time Inc.) 59 (25): 85. June 30, 2003.
- ^ Justin, Cameron Go Camera Shy E-online Joal Ryan – November 10, 2004
- ^ "Alex Rodriguez on Split with Cameron Diaz: 'We'll Always Be Friends'" September 22, 2011, People Magazine
- ^ Cameron has moved on to next film, per Brett, Jennifer (August 23, 2011). "Cameron Diaz is filming at Woodruff Arts Center today". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://blogs.ajc.com/the-buzz/2011/08/23/cameron-diaz-is-filming-at-woodruff-arts-center-today/. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
- ^ "MTV.com Trippin' series Info". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/shows/trippin/series.jhtml. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
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