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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 to join the coveted "$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for Charlie`s Angels: Full Throttle[citation needed].
Early life Diaz was born in San Diego, California to Emilio Diaz and Billie (née Early).Diaz`s father is a second-generation Cuban-American and her mother has German, English And Native American descent, Diaz 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. At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask. Even though she had no previous acting experience 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. Cameron Diaz with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the 2002 Cannes Film FestivalDuring 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 d |
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BiographyMeasurementsBust: 34" B Waist: 23" Hips: 36"Trivia and QuotesQuotes Cameron: Most men are the same. They`re only interested in f*cking you and they don`t care whether you`re happy or sad. They just want to get on with their business in and out of bed, and they make you feel that you don`t count except as their sex toy. Cameron: Your regrets aren`t what you did, but what you didn`t do. So I take every opportunity Cameron: (on being called a “typical California girl") Are you calling me typical? I beg to differ. Well, I`m from California. I`m naturally a blonde, so there I go falling right into the stereotype. I smile a lot, I`m happy. But I can be sad. I can muster it up! Cameron: (on duets with boyfriend Justin Timberlake) We sang a couple of duets in the car once…. They didn’t go so well Cameron: (prior to getting her nose fixed) I’m getting it fixed. I cannot breathe at all. One side of my nose is totally shattered. My septum is basically like a derailed train Cameron: French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar Cameron: Grease is the only cure for a hangover Cameron: I had a major girl-crush on Pamela Anderson. Still do - she`s hot as ever - but she was my first. When I first discovered her I was like, `Wow, she`s so beautiful! Cameron: I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. Cameron: I`d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs Cameron: I`m a pretty girl who`s a model who doesn`t suck as an actress. Justin & Cameron: (a joint statement released in January 2007) It has always been our preference not to comment on the status of our relationship, but, out of respect for the time we`ve spent together, we feel compelled to do so now, in light of recent speculation and the number of inaccurate stories that are being reported by the media. We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship and have done so mutually and as friends, with continued love and respect for one another Cameron: (declaring she thinks sex holds the key to all of life’s problems) Sex is the most amazing stress-reliever. I think it’s the best thing for everything. It should be 100 per cent part of everyone’s life on a day-to-day basis. We’d all be a lot happier! I love to get my heart rate up and I love sweating. Sex is undoubtedly the best way to do that! Cameron: (on being involved in the "Shrek" movies) I like being a part of something that has such integrity, that delivers a message as well as providing entertainment, that pushes the limits every time, particularly with technology. Every time they deliver something new and better than they did before, so just being a part of that is really wonderful Cameron: (On her body) It’s a roller coaster like any other relationship you have. Like with your car, you’re like, ‘I just love this car- it drives so fast!’ And then you’re like, ‘God, I really need a new car…I wish I at least had another cupholder Cameron: (on her love of surfing) I actually didn`t learn to surf until the end of the last Charlie`s Angels shoot. So I`ve only been surfing for three years. Everybody thinks I`ve surfed my whole life, but I just picked it up. Probably because I grew up in California, people think I`ve always done it, but we would only go to the beach in the summer. My folks worked full time so we would take the bus to the beach and we`d hang out there all day. I never surfed because I didn`t have anybody to teach me how to and I didn`t have a surfboard, but I bodysurfed all the time Cameron: I get a lot of people telling me I look like Cameron Diaz. I tell them my sister gets it more than me Cameron: I think people get married these days because they can get divorced. But saying, "I can get married, because I can get a divorce"? I don`t like that Cameron: I used to be able to eat anything I wanted and then go right to bed. Fried chicken, onion rings, half a bottle of wine. But as you get older, your insides rebel Cameron: It would be great to start a family at some point. [But] I like my sleep. That`s why I don`t want a baby right now. I want my sleep Cameron: Life is a journey. My life is no different than anyone else`s life, and some days I`ve got it all figured out and other days I`m like, `What the hell is going on?` That`s the human experience Cameron: Tabloids don’t sell movies or help anyone’s career. If that were true, every Lindsay Lohan movie would open to $80 million "I`m like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans." quoted in Woman`s World 1-3-06 "What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don`t have, is just love what we do have." quoted Women`s World (6-14-05) didn`t realize it [The Mask (1994)] was a fairly large film that I was a part of. Halfway through I was going, `Is there any place that my mom and dad can see this film?` and they`re going, `Cameron, at the theatres.` I had no idea. Durrrrrrr. I`m blonde. I`m allowed. Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman. I would kiss a frog even if there were no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. I`d lick him. On Being John Malkovich (1999): "It`s been said that in Hollywood there are only 14 different scripts. Well, this is number 15." The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can`t even tell you, it was so hard. I didn`t know how to handle it. But I think I`m in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you. Your regrets aren`t what you did, but what you didn`t do. So I take every opportunity.Trivia Cameron once got alcohol poisoning in Australia at the age of 18. When Cameron was 16-years-old, her parents allowed her to spend five years traveling the world to pursue her modeling career, beginning in Japan, where she was accompanied only by a 15-year-old fellow model Cameron became only the second actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club (after Julia Roberts), when she signed for that amount to do Charlie`s Angels: Full Throttle in January 2002 Cameron broke her nose in a surfing accident in Hawaii, on her birthday in 2003. Cameron has admitted she is very superstitious Cameron lived with video producer, Carlos De La Torre, for five years Cameron was a half-time dancer at football games in high school Cameron was discovered by a photographer at a Hollywood party who, within a week, helped her land a contract with the Elite Modeling Agency Cameron`s father is Cuban. Her mother has Cherokee ancestry. Her father, Emilio Diaz, had a small part in There`s Something About Mary, playing a jailbird Julie Andrews has said that Cameron would be her choice to play Maria if The Sound of Music was ever remade Cameron attended the same high school as Snoop Dogg Cameron likes snowboarding and surfing Cameron and Justin Timberlake ended their relationship just before Christmas 2006. Following the split, Cameron moved back in with her parents, Billie and Emilio, until she could find something more permanent Cameron briefly dated pro-surfer Kelly Slater in January 2007 Cameron was named ‘Favorite Leading Lady’ at the 2007 People`s Choice Awards. In December 2006, Cameron admitted in the gay magazine, The Advocate, that she had a "girl-crush" on Pamela Anderson since she fell for her as a teenager, when she saw her in a skin-tight red swimsuit on Baywatch In late 2006, Cameron decided to have plastic surgery to fix her bumpy nose, which she had broken on four previous occasions In March 2007, Cameron and Tyrese Gibson were spotted kissing at Xenii nightclub. The pair were also seen together at a pre-Oscars party. A rep for Cameron denied they were dating In May 2007, Cameron was embarrassed when her loose-fitting top slipped down, exposing her right breast on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Cameron had been listed by several sources--including "Autograph Magazine"--as one of the rudest autograph signers. When asked for one, she has been known to lecture fans about how dumb autographs are Cameron is a huge fan of the band Ratt. Cameron made her film debut in The Mask 30 August 2003 - Broke her nose in a surfing accident in Hawaii on her birthday. Auditioned for the film Waking the Dead (2000) but lost the role to Jennifer Connelly. Got alcohol poisoning in Australia at age 18. Has a reputation for being late. Said that her role in Gangs of New York (2002) marked the pinnacle of her career. Used to be a vegetarian. Very superstitious. Was set to play Jane in Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), but bowed out shortly before production due to scheduling conflicts. Was set to play Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat (1995) but broke her wrist prior to filming and was replaced by Bridgette Wilson. Will ONLY wash her face in Evian spring water! | ||
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