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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)|Seventeen]]'' magazine. |
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)|Seventeen]]'' magazine. During this period she also made a brief but now notorious soft pornographic film. <ref>{{cite news |
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At 21, Diaz auditioned for the [[Jim Carrey]] film ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''. Even though she had no previous acting experience,<ref>[http://uk.askmen.com/women/actress/11c_cameron_diaz.html Actress of the week - Cameron Diaz] ''askmen.com'' accessed November 20 2006</ref> she was cast as 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 film]]s, such as ''[[The Last Supper (1995 film)|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 [[1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards|SAG Awards]]. |
At 21, Diaz auditioned for the [[Jim Carrey]] film ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''. Even though she had no previous acting experience,<ref>[http://uk.askmen.com/women/actress/11c_cameron_diaz.html Actress of the week - Cameron Diaz] ''askmen.com'' accessed November 20 2006</ref> she was cast as 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 film]]s, such as ''[[The Last Supper (1995 film)|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 [[1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards|SAG Awards]]. |
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Cameron Diaz | |
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 Cameron Diaz waving for the camera at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival while promoting In Her Shoes | |
| Born | Cameron Michelle Diaz |
| Awards | NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1998 There's Something About Mary |
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in blockbuster movies such as The Mask, There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding, Charlie's Angels, Shrek, and Gangs of New York. Diaz was the second of three actresses (the others being Julia Roberts, and Reese Witherspoon) to join the coveted "$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle[citation needed].
Biography
Early life
Diaz was born in San Diego, California to Emilio Diaz and Billie (née Early).[1] Diaz's father is a second-generation Cuban-American[2] and her mother has Native American, English and German ancestry.[3][4][5] Diaz attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg. During her school days, she was nicknamed Skeletor by her classmates because she was so thin. [citation needed]
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. [6]
At 21, Diaz auditioned for the Jim Carrey film The Mask. Even though she had no previous acting experience,[7] she was cast as 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 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. 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.
Future work for Diaz includes a role in 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 she dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. She will also appear in Shrek 4. She will also star in The Box, a horror thriller which is due to start filming in November 2007. [8]
July 7, 2007, Diaz participated at Live Earth in New York by introducing The Police. In 2007, People magazine has ranked her as the Best Dressed Female Celebrity.[9]
Relationships
Diaz dated actor Matt Dillon from 1995 to 1998. She is also the ex-fiancée of actor, musician, and guitarist 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 had broken up, following weeks of breakup rumors.[10]
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.[11]
Diaz and Timberlake were involved in another incident while walking out of a friend's house. A photographer jumped out of bushes and photographed them. He then entered his car and allegedly drove it towards Diaz, who had to jump out of the way. Diaz pressed charges against the photographer, whose agency supported his actions as legal and safe[citation needed].
Personal life
Diaz has publicly admitted she is deeply germophobic and habitually rubs doorknobs so hard before opening doors to clean them that the original paint fades afterwards[citation needed]. Along with her floors, she says, she washes her hands "many times" each day and uses her elbows to push open doors.[12] Diaz has perhaps modified her fears somewhat, saying on May 10, 2007, "I think I've made my peace with it."[13]
Diaz received "substantial" libel damages from suing American Media Incoporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-boyfriend Timberlake.[14]
Diaz has been vocal in her opposition to U.S. President George W. Bush[15]. Before 2000's election (on October 26 to be exact), Diaz (along with her Charlie's Angels co-stars, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu) wore a shirt that said "I WON'T VOTE FOR A SON OF A BUSH!" while promoting Charlie's Angels on MTV's Total Request Live.[citation needed] During an Oprah appearance before 2004's election, Diaz said
Women have so much to lose... I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. If you think rape should be legal then don't vote. But if you think you have a right to your body and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote. [16]
When Diaz was asked if she can speak Spanish she said
I know what you're saying, I really do. I just cannot 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. [17]
Diaz is currently represented by Creative Artists Agency. [8]
Dancing
Cameron Diaz's films often include scenes of her dancing, something she obviously has a talent for. Examples of this are Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, The Mask and The Sweetest Thing. The dancing scenes in Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels Full Throttle have a focus on Cameron shaking her hips, particularly in Charlie's Angels where there is a scene of her shaking her hips to Baby Got Back. This lead to her even being asked why there are so many scenes of her shaking her bottom in her films by Will Ferell in Saturday Night Live. Will then for fun challenged Cameron to a "butt-off", which she won. In the director's commentary for Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, it is mentioned that Cameron wanted to do a musical number early in the film. This is granted, as there is a scene of her shaking her hips to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.
Award nominations
- 1999: Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for There's Something About Mary
- 2000: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich
- 2002: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Vanilla Sky
- 2002: SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for Vanilla Sky
- 2003: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Gangs of New York
- 2005: The Hitch
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Mask | Tina Carlyle |
| 1995 | The Last Supper | Jude |
| 1996 | She's the One | Heather |
| Feeling Minnesota | Freddie Clayton | |
| Head Above Water | Nathalie | |
| 1997 | Keys to Tulsa | Trudy |
| My Best Friend's Wedding | Kimberly Wallace | |
| A Life Less Ordinary | Celine Naville | |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Blonde TV Reporter |
| There's Something About Mary | Mary Jensen | |
| Very Bad Things | Laura Garrety | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Lotte Schwartz |
| Any Given Sunday | Christina Pagniacci | |
| 2000 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Carol Faber |
| Charlie's Angels | Natalie Cook | |
| 2001 | The Invisible Circus | Faith |
| Shrek | Princess Fiona (voice) | |
| Vanilla Sky | Julianna 'Julie' Gianni | |
| 2002 | The Sweetest Thing | Christina Walters |
| My Father's House | The Girl | |
| Minority Report | Woman on Metro | |
| Gangs of New York | Jenny Everdeane | |
| 2003 | Shrek 4-D | Princess Fiona (voice) |
| Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Natalie Cook | |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Princess Fiona (voice) |
| 2005 | In Her Shoes | Maggie Feller |
| 2006 | The Holiday | Amanda Wood |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Princess Fiona (voice) |
| Shrek the Halls (TV) | Princess Fiona (voice) | |
| Sashank | Jessica Mclure | |
| The Box | Norma Lewis | |
| 2008 | My Sister's Keeper | Sara Fitzgerald |
| What Happens In Vegas... | ||
| 2010 | Shrek 4 | Princess Fiona (voice) |
See Also
References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/63/Cameron-Diaz.html
- ^ http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?node=features/interviews/diaz
- ^ http://www.hilary.com/celebrity/cameron-diaz.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4717013.stm
- ^ http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/diaz.asp
- ^ "Diaz porn video surfaces on the internet".
- ^ Actress of the week - Cameron Diaz askmen.com accessed November 20 2006
- ^ a b Kit, Borys; Goldstein, Greg (2006-06-29). "Box' is a dark place for Diaz". The Hollywood Reporter.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Cameron Diaz tops Best-Dressed Females Celebrity list".
- ^ Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz call it quits CTV - E-Talk Daily January 11, 2007
- ^ Justin, Cameron Go Camera Shy E-online Joal Ryan - November 10 2004
- ^ Cameron Diaz on OCD Time Magazine November 10 1997
- ^ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 10, 2007
- ^ "Libel damages for US actress Diaz". BBC News. 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Cameron Diaz on Bush and the 2000 Election
- ^ US Presidential Election 2004 - Analysis The Irish Times accessed November 20 2006
- ^ Personal Quotes