Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress. In August 2008, Forbes Magazine listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She reportedly earned $50 million in the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas and the Shrek films.
Biography
Early life
Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz (1949-2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for twenty plus years, as a Field Gauger, and in the pipeline department, until he retired in 1998. Her father was a second-generation Cuban American whose family came from Spain via Cuba. Then her grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City.Her mother is of English and German and Cherokee ancestry.She has one older sister, Chimene Diaz, (born June 5, 1970, San Diego). She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper
Snoop Dogg.
Modelling
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 the U.S., she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modeled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. She was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.
Acting
At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, even though she had no previous acting experience,based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female lead. After obtaining the lead female role, she immediately started acting lessons. 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, preferring to feel her way effectively into the business. She then regained mainstream succe
ss with her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, a
film for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. 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 third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next film appearances were in 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, in which she co-starred with her 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 also appeared in the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, opposite Ashton Kutcher. She will also appear in Shrek 4 and 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.
Personal life
Diaz has publicly admitted th
at she has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 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 ha
nds 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 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. An
d I'm third generation. I'm of Cuban descent.
Diaz is currently represented by Creative Artists Agency.
In September 2004, Diaz cr
eated some controversy after her appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The show in question, concerned celebrities encouraging young people to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. While Diaz was sitting next to her Charlie's Angels co-star Drew Barrymore, singer Christina Aguilera, and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, Diaz warned "Women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if you think that 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." Several conservative pundits like talk show host Laura Ingraham condemned this statement.
The actress was vocal in her support for Al Gore in 2000. Diaz went so far as sporting a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity for Charlie's Angels.
On April 15, 2008, her father, E
milio Diaz, died of pneumonia, aged 58.
Relationships
Diaz dated actor Matt Dillon from 1995 to 1998. She is als
o the ex-fiancée of actor/musician Jared Leto. They had a low-profile relationship from 1998 to 2002. Reports have said that they broke up because Diaz was concentrating more on her acting as Leto was more concerned about his band. She then for a short while dated English singer/songwriter Julian Barry before they split due to career commitments.
Most recently, Diaz dated former *NSYNC member Justin Timberlake, whom she met at the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards. The pair issued a joint statement on January 11, 2007, announcing they had broken up, following weeks of breakup rumors.
Following the split with Justin Timberlake, she is reported to have dated Djimon Hounsou in Feb 2007
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.
She is currently dating British model Paul Sculfor.
Awards and 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
- 2006: Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress for In Her Shoes (nomination)
- 2008: Kids' Choice Awards- Nominated for Best Voice From An Animated Movie for Shrek the Third
- 2008: Kids' Choice Awards- Wannabe Award
- 2009: In June 2008 it was announced that Cameron Diaz would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Although announced in June 2008, she is among the list of 2009 recipients. The date and time for the unveiling of her star and ceremony has not yet been announced but is expected in 2009.[23]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes and Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Woods | |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Princess Fiona (voice) | |
| Shrek the Halls | Princess Fiona (voice) | Made for TV | |
| 2008 | What Happens in Vegas | Joy McNally-Fuller | |
| 2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Sara Fitzgerald | awaiting release |
| The Box | Norma Lewis | awaiting release | |
| 2010 | Shrek Goes Fourth | Princess Fiona (voice) | post-production |
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