Cameron Diaz

Birth Name

Cameron Michelle Diaz 

Nationality

American 

Date Of Birth

August 30, 1972

 Height

5’9″/175 cm.

Early life:
Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the younger daughter of Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger, and Billie (née Early), an import-export agent. Her father was born in Los Angeles County, and his family came from Spain via Cuba (her paternal grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City). Her mother is of English, German, Native American, and Dutch descent. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

Career:
Modeling:
At age 16, she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz contracted with modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years she worked around the world for contracts with major companies. She modeled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was seventeen years old she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of the magazine Seventeen.
Acting:
Diaz at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for the movie Gangs of New York.

Tom Cruise and Diaz at the MTV Movie Awards, June 6, 2010

At age 21, Diaz auditioned for the movie 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 main actress. After obtaining the main female role, she immediately started acting lessons. The Mask became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994, and earned Diaz nominations for several awards.

During the next three years, she had roles in low-budget independent films, such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), She's the One (1996), Keys to Tulsa (1996), and A Life Less Ordinary (1997), preferring to feel her way effectively into the business. She was scheduled to feature in the film Mortal Kombat, but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role.
She returned to mainstream films with the major movie successes My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category of Best Actress — Musical or Comedy.
During 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) 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. 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.
During 2010, Forbes Magazine ranked 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. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.

Relationships:
During 1995, she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon, with whom she co-starred in There's Something About Mary; the relationship ended during 1998. She then had a relationship with singer/actor Jared Leto from 1999 to 2003.
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. During an appearance on Graham Norton's BBC chatshow in June 2011, she confirmed they have remained good friends ("We've been broken up as long as we were ever together.") and this helped tremendously when filming the 'dry humping' scene in the 2011 comedy Bad Teacher.
As of July 2010, Diaz has been in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
Cameron Diaz Awards:

• Imagen Awards: Best Feature Actress, CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE (2004)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, VANILLA SKY (2002)
• MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Team, with Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu , CHARLIE'S ANGELS (2001)
• MTV Movie Awards: Best Dance Sequel, CHARLIE'S ANGELS (2001)
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actress, VANILLA SKY (2001)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Action Team (Internet Only), CHARLIE'S ANGELS (2001) - shared with Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu
• Blockbuster Entertainment Award: Favorite Actress - Drama, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (2000)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (2000)
• MTV Movie Awards: Best Female Performance, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARRY (1999)
• American Comedy Awards: Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role), THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1999)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Award: Favorite Actress - Comedy, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1999)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Crossover Role in a Feature Film, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (1998)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Award: Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (1998)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)
• ShoWest Award: Female Star of Tomorrow (1996)