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== Early life == |
== Early life == |
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im a big girl and i have big girl boots haha i havge lots of money and movies lolweb|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohVWRTSOHE |title=YouTube interview about her Spanish-Cuban roots |publisher=Youtube.com |date=2011-06-28 |accessdate=2012-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=594&s=interviews |title=CAMERON DIAZ: A Life Less Ordinary: Interview |publisher=Urbancinefile.com.au |accessdate=March 5, 2010}}</ref> Her mother has [[Germans|German]] and [[English people|English]] ancestry.<ref name="ref0801">{{cite news|last=Jenkins|first=David|title=Girl, interrupted|work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |date=January 9, 2003|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4729585/Girl-interrupted.html|accessdate=March 6, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cameron Diaz: Hollywood crowd-pleaser |work=BBC News |date=July 29, 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4717013.stm |accessdate=January 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hawk |first=Mason |title=A Cheap Date With Cameron Diaz |work=NYRock |year=1998 |url=http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/diaz.asp |accessdate=January 12, 2008}}</ref> Diaz was raised in [[Long Beach, California]] and attended [[Long Beach Polytechnic High School]].<ref name="Yahoo Movies">{{cite web|title=Cameron Diaz biography|url=http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020297/bio|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|accessdate=June 9, 2011}}</ref> Diaz attended the same high school with [[Snoop Dogg]], whom she says she "bought marijuana from."<ref name="Diaz and Snoop, marijuana">{{cite web | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1348881/Cameron-Diaz-George-Lopez-I-bought-marijuana-Snoop-Dogg-high-school.html | title='I bought marijuana from Snoop Dogg at high school' alleges California girl Cameron Diaz | publisher=Daily Mail online | work=Online magazine | date=January 23, 2011 | accessdate=February 3, 2013 | author=Magrath, Andrea}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
Revision as of 19:57, 4 June 2013
Cameron Diaz | |
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Born | Cameron Michelle Diaz August 30, 1972 |
Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
Years active | 1988–1993 (model) 1994–present (actress) |
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
im a big girl and i have big girl boots haha i havge lots of money and movies lolweb|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohVWRTSOHE |title=YouTube interview about her Spanish-Cuban roots |publisher=Youtube.com |date=2011-06-28 |accessdate=2012-11-16}}</ref>[3] Her mother has German and English ancestry.[4][5][6] Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.[7] Diaz attended the same high school with Snoop Dogg, whom she says she "bought marijuana from."[8]
Career
Modeling
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 Levi's.[9] When she was age 17, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.[10]
Acting
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,[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] 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.[9] 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.[9] 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,[9] 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]
Personal life
Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on 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.[25] Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic,[26] 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.[27] On April 15, 2008, Cameron's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.[28]
Relationships
From 1990 to December 1994, Diaz cohabited with video producer Carlos de la Torre.[29][30] 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]
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005 | Trippin' | Herself[37] | 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 |
References
- ^ Christophe Choo (August 17, 2010). "Cameron Diaz is home's star owner du jour". Christophechoo.com. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ^ Cameron Diaz splashes out $10million on sprawling English country home-style mansion in Beverly Hills
- ^ "CAMERON DIAZ: A Life Less Ordinary: Interview". Urbancinefile.com.au. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ Jenkins, David (January 9, 2003). "Girl, interrupted". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz: Hollywood crowd-pleaser". BBC News. July 29, 2005. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ Hawk, Mason (1998). "A Cheap Date With Cameron Diaz". NYRock. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz biography". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Magrath, Andrea (January 23, 2011). "'I bought marijuana from Snoop Dogg at high school' alleges California girl Cameron Diaz". Online magazine. Daily Mail online. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2005
- ^ "Covers Throughout the Years – Historic Seventeen Magazine Covers". Seventeen. October 30, 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Actress of the week – Cameron Diaz askmen.com'.' Retrieved November 20, 2006.
- ^ ""1994 DOMESTIC GROSSES, #1–50", Box Office Mojo". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
- ^ The Task (1994) – Awards IMDb
- ^ "Cameron Diaz: being a sex symbol is limiting". Topcelebrityheadlines.com. May 18, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols". Channel 4. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz Was Almost In Mortal Kombat?". HEAVY. December 23, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Rose, Lacy (August 7, 2008). "Hollywood's Top-Earning Actresses". Forbes Magazine. 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. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz Forbes 100 Celebrity list". Forbes. June 28, 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ "Accomplished Women Entertainers". CEOWORLD magazine. May 18, 2011.
- ^ "Libel damages for US actress Diaz". BBC News. February 16, 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ "LiberalArtists.com". LiberalArtists.com. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
- ^ Stewart, Anna (June 19, 2009). "Diaz gives back to veteran community - Entertainment News, Profile in Excellence: Cameron Diaz, Media". Variety. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
- ^ 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. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ "Cameron Diaz & Jennifer Lopez: What They Think About Motherhood" May 07, 2012, Celebrity Central, People Magazine
- ^ a b Bio at Talk Talk
- ^ a b "Cameron Diaz Biography". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ Mimon, Diana. "Cameron Diaz Biography". About.com. The New York Times Company. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
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(help) - ^ "Back on the Market". People. 59 (25). Time Inc.: 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
- ^ "Nicki Minaj to make movie debut in new Cameron Diaz comedy | Film & TV News". Nme.Com. April 29, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ^ "MTV.com Trippin' series Info". MTV. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
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