Cameron Diaz

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Cameron Diaz
OCCUPATION
Actress
BIRTH DATE
August 30, 1972 (age 46)
PLACE OF BIRTH
San Diego, California
ZODIAC SIGN
Virgo

Biography of Cameron Diaz
Actress (1972-)
Cameron Diaz is a former model turned actress known for her comedic roles and charisma as a girl next door. She has starred in a series of films such as 'There Something About Mary', 'Charlie's Angels', 'In Her Shoes' and 'The Other Woman'.
Synopsis
Cameron Diaz was born on August 30, 1972 in San Diego, California. He started modeling at age 16 and worked in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein and Coca-Cola. His first film role was in The Mask with Jim Carrey and he has participated in a wide range of projects since then, including the existential black comedy Being John Malkovich and the Scorsese drama Gangs of New York. Diaz also offers the voice of Princess Fiona in the Shrek movies, with other outings full of humor, such as Charlie's Angels, The Sweetest Thing, The Other Woman and Annie.

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Early life
Cameron Diaz was born on August 30, 1972 in San Diego, California. The daughter of Emilio Díaz, a foreman of the second-generation Cuban-American oil company, and his wife Billie, of Native American, Italian and German descent, Díaz began modeling when he was 16 years old. Her successful career as a model took her to Japan, Australia, Morocco and Paris, among other places, and led her to magazines such as Mademoiselle and Seventeen, as well as advertising campaigns for companies such as Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola and Levi's.

Debut in the cinema
In 1994, Díaz won his first film role in the hit action comedy The Mask, starring rubber-faced comedian Jim Carrey. With no previous experience in acting, he had originally auditioned for a supporting character in the film. Twelve callbacks later, however, was hired to play the mafia torch singer Tina Carlyle, the female lead. After the success of The Mask, Diaz was touted as the next big event in Hollywood and was seduced by several outstanding filmmakers to appear in their projects.


While training to star in the live action movie version of the popular martial arts video game Mortal Kombat, Diaz suffered a wrist injury, which caused him to withdraw from the film. Instead, he made a series of smaller and independent films, including The Last Supper (1995); Feeling Minnesota (1996), starring Keanu Reeves; She's the One (1996), co-starring Ed Burns and Jennifer Aniston; and Head Above Water (1996), starring Harvey Keitel. He made a successful return to conventional movies in 1997, earning praise for his portrayal of a sweet girlfriend alongside Julia Roberts in the hit comedy My Best Friend's Wedding.

'There is something about Mary'
After starring opposite Ewan McGregor in the ragged romantic comedy A Life Less Ordinary (1997), Diaz made the leap to Hollywood stardom with his cunning comic twist in the unlucky and surprising summer box office hit There Something About Mary, with Ben Stiller and Matt. Dillon and written and directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly.

In 1999, audiences saw two very different faces of Diaz. First, she camouflaged her blonde beauty to play a disheveled pet shop worker and a female puppeteer in the existential comedy John John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze and played by John Cusack, Catherine Keener and Malkovich. Later that year, she became a cheeky actress like the glamorous, tough owner of a professional soccer team on Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, co-starring Al Pacino and Dennis Quaid.


Big screen star
Despite his undeniable box-office appeal, Díaz continued to appear in a relatively low-budget independent film, including the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), Malkovich, and the movie of the set You Can Can Tell Just at Looking at Her (2000). ), which aired on cable television Showtime in 2001 and was co-starring Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Calista Flockhart, in addition to other major projects. In the fall of 2000, he starred opposite Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu as one of the three detectives at the heart of the hit big screen remake of the 1970 TV show, Aaron Spelling, Charlie's Angels.

In early 2001, Díaz appeared as a free-spirited older sister in The Invisible Circus. He also provided the voice for the animated Princess Fiona in that summer's animated hit Shrek, also with vocals by Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy. The trio revived their roles during three sequels in the next decade.

That same year starred in Vanilla Sky, by Cameron Crowe, co-starring Tom Cruise. Then, in 2002, he appeared in the romantic comedy The Sweetest Thing, as well as Gangs of New York by Martin Scorsese, co-prota