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Cameron Diaz work runs the gamut from action flicks (Charlie's Angel's) to more serious fare (Gangs of New York) and even animation (Shrek), helping her become one of Hollywood's most powerful and highest-paid actresses. As for her personal life, the blonde beauty stayed busy offscreen, dating Matt Dillon, Justin Timberlake and Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz2
Cameron Diaz hits the big screen in the Jim Carrey comedy The Mask. The model, whose only acting experience was in a high school drama class, "tried out as a joke," according to her agent, Robin Levy. Diaz lands the part after 12 callbacks. Still, "the first day was hell," Diaz tells PEOPLE. "When Carlos was driving me to the studio it was like, 'Babe, pull over. I'm going to throw up.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz3
Cameron Diaz takes a gross-out comedic turn in There's Something About Mary. The movie becomes a smash hit, earning $172 million, and the hair-gel joke makes movie history. Diaz only agreed to the scene after long negotiations – and a couple of beers, the film's co-director Bobby Farrelly told PEOPLE. "She was thinking, 'I have a career going here, guys, and I don't want to ruin it over one of your ridiculous gags.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz4
Cameron Diaz shows her appreciation of life. "I'm in love with love. I'm in love with life," the actress, who has been recently linked to a few different guys (Bradley Cooper, Paul Sculfor), tells W. "This year I just sort of decided, you know, there's a lot of things that I've been wanting to do, and I’m going to do them." Also, she stars with Ashton Kutcher in What Happens in Vegas, which opens at No. 3.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz5
Cameron Diaz plays a mother of two girls–the eldest is battling cancer and the youngest is born to save her sister's life. Reflecting on her late father Emilio (who died while Diaz worked on the drama), she says, "I'm sure it's going to be a part of all of the roles that I play now. It's been a year since he died, and it's been an incredibly transformative year.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz6
Cameron Diaz reunites with ex Justin Timberlake on the Los Angeles set of their new film, Bad Teacher. In the romantic comedy, slated for a 2011 release, Diaz plays an irresponsible 7th grade teacher who pursues Timberlake's substitute teacher in the hopes of using his money for a breast augmentation. "They have a shared sense of humor," the film's director says. "It's easy for them to be funny together. You know where the jokes are.
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Cameron Diaz is spotted cozying up to New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez in Boston when the baseball star is in town for a game. The pair spends the summer together in New York and the actress tells Harper's Bazaar in July she's become a Yankees fan. In the fall, they call it quits, with Rodriguez telling PEOPLE, "I have a lot of love for Cameron. We'll always be friends.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz2
Cameron Diaz parents allowed the then-16-year old 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.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz3
Cameron Diaz was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie (née Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger. She has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family came from Spain via Cuba (her paternal grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City and her father was born in Los Angeles County). Her mother is of English, German, Native American, and Dutch descent.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz4
Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego. She is the daughter of Billie (Anglo-German) and Emilio Diaz (Cuban-American). Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when her agency recommended her for the female lead in The Mask (1994).Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz5
Cameron Diaz amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was cast opposite Jim Carrey in the blockbuster film, which launched her into stardom virtually overnight. Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, she turned down further high profile roles and instead honed her acting skills in such low budget independent films as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), Head Above Water (1996), and She's the One (1996).Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz6
Cameron Diaz returned to the main stream with My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), another big hit in which she gave a great performance and held her own against Julia Roberts. By 1998 she had earned full fledged star status for playing the title role in the box office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). With her name near the top on virtually every list of Hollyood's sexiest actresses, and firmly established as one of filmdom's hottest properties and most sought after actresses.
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Cameron 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.[citation needed]Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz2
Cameron Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006. During 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.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz3
Cameron Diaz has been in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez since July 2010.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz4
Cameron Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She became famous 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 and voicing the character Princess Fiona for the Shrek series. Diaz received Golden Globe award nominations for her performances in the movies There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz5
Cameron Diaz joins Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angels. "I laughed every day I went to work. I got to kick ass. I got to drive fast cars and fast boats. I got to laugh my ass off. I got to dance my ass off. And I got paid to do it," she tells tells Harper's Bazaar. They all return for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003, which features Demi Moore and grosses more than $100 million.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz6
Cameron Diaz and Timberlake officially confirm they ended their nearly four-year relationship. "We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship, and have done so mutually and as friends, with continued love and respect for one another," they say in a joint statement. In June, the exes reunite to promote Shrek the Third, in which they both star.
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Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic female celebrity, ranking number 60 among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz was cast as the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of The Smurfs, and as well as voicing Princess Fiona for the movie Shrek Forever After, also reunited with her Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise in the action/comedy Knight and Day, and on January 14, she played "Lenore Case", the journalist in the remake of the 1940's film, The Green Hornet.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz2
Cameron Diaz heads to Hawaii to surf with champion surfer Kelly Slater, an old friend who she met while filming Trippin'. But Slater isn't the only man keeping Diaz occupied, by summer, the actress is linked to magician Criss Angel and musician John Mayer.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz3
Cameron Diaz began her career as a fashion model, contracted with modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years, she worked around the world for contracts with major companies, modeling for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was 17 years old, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of the magazine Seventeen.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz4
Cameron Diaz auditioned for the movie The Mask,[10] 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, earned Diaz nominations for several awards and launched her as a sex symbol.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz5
Cameron 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.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz6
Cameron 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. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box.
Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz1
Cameron Diaz began her career as a fashion model, contracted with modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years, she worked around the world for contracts with major companies, modeling for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was 17 years old, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of the magazine Seventeen.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz2
Cameron Diaz auditioned for the movie The Mask,[10] 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, earned Diaz nominations for several awards and launched her as a sex symbol.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz3
Cameron 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.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz4
Cameron 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. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box.Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz5
Cameron Diaz and Timberlake officially confirm they ended their nearly four-year relationship. "We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship, and have done so mutually and as friends, with continued love and respect for one another," they say in a joint statement. In June, the exes reunite to promote Shrek the Third, in which they both star. Celebrity Style Face Cameron Diaz6
Cameron Diaz heads to Hawaii to surf with champion surfer Kelly Slater, an old friend who she met while filming Trippin'. But Slater isn't the only man keeping Diaz occupied, by summer, the actress is linked to magician Criss Angel and musician John Mayer.
