Cameron Diaz
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| Cameron Diaz | |
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Diaz at a press conference for Knight and Day, July 2010
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| Born | Cameron Michelle Diaz August 30, 1972 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1][2] |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Diaz has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in the movies, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, Gangs of New York, and There's Something About Mary for which she also won the New York Film Critics Best Lead Actress Award. She is also a BAFTA Nominee. In 2013, Diaz was named the highest paid actress over 40 in Hollywood.[3]
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Early life
Cameron Diaz was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie Joann (née Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Luis Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger.[4][5] Diaz has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family was of Cuban descent, and settled in Tampa's Ybor City, later moving to California, where Emilio was born.[6][7] Her mother has English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.[8][9][10] Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California, and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.[11][12]Career
Early work
She began her career as a fashion model at age 16, and contracted with a modeling agency, Elite Model Management. For the next few years she worked around the world on contracts for companies such as Calvin Klein and Levi's.[13] When she was age 17 she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.[14] Diaz also modeled for 2-3 months in Australia and shot a commercial for Coca-Cola in Sydney in 1991.[15][16][17]
Diaz at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for the movie Gangs of New York
1995–2004
Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, Diaz avoided large studio films for the next three years and took roles in the independent films The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), She's the One (1996), and Head Above Water (1996). She was scheduled to perform in the film Mortal Kombat, but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role.[22] Diaz returned to mainstream films with My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary, both released in 1997. The following year, she played the title role in the smash hit 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.[13]She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Awards. Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz was featured in many movies, such as Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, and the successful adaptation of Charlie's Angels.[13] In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek,[13] for which she earned $10 million.
2005–2009
In 2005, Diaz played opposite Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine in In Her Shoes (2005), a comedy-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Jennifer Weiner, which focuses on the relationship between two sisters and their grandmother. The film received generally positive reviews from critics,[23] and Diaz garnered acclaim for her performance of a dyslexic wild child engaged in a love-hate struggle with her plain, sensible sister (Collette), with USA Today calling it "her best work" then.[24] She followed In Her Shoes with a role in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday, also starring Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. In it she played Amanda, an American movie trailer producer who temporarily exchanges homes with an British woman (Winslet). Released to a mixed reception by critics,[25] the film became on the biggest commercial successes of the year, grossing more than $205 million worldwide.[26]
Diaz at the Shrek the Third London premiere in June 2007
In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box. Based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name,[34] My Sister's Keeper was released to mixed reviews in June 2009.[35] In the drama, Diaz plays a former lawyer and mother of two, one of who is dying of leukemia. A moderate commercial, it grossed $95 million worldwide, mostly from its domestic run.[36] Set in 1976, The Box, written and directed by Richard Kelly, stars Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man who offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed within the dome on top of a box, knowing that someone, somewhere, will die from it.[37] Critical response towards the psychological horror film was mixed,[38] and, though having grossed its budget back, is was considered a financial disappointment.[39]
2010–present
In 2011, she played Lenore Case, a journalist, in the remake of the 1940s film The Green Hornet. Directed by Michel Gondry, Diaz starred alongside Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and Christoph Waltz in the superhero action comedy film. Released to mixed to negative reviews form critics, who called it an "overblown, interminable and unfunny update",[45] the film ended its theatrical run on April 21, 2011, with a worldwide gross total of $228 million.[44] The same year, she played opposite Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel in Jake Kasdan's adult comedy Bad Teacher. In the film, Diaz plays an immoral, gold-digging Chicago-area middle school teacher at the fictional John Adams Middle School who curses at her students, drinks heavily, smokes marijuana. Again, it received mostly negative reviews from critics who felt that "in spite of a promising concept and a charmingly brazen performance from Diaz, Bad Teacher is never as funny as it should be."[46] A commercial hit however, the R-rated comedy grossed $216 million worldwide.[47] Also in 2011, Diaz was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[48]
Diaz at the 2012 premiere What to Expect When You're Expecting in New York
In Ridley Scott's The Counselor, Diaz's only film project of 2013, a thriller film about greed, death, the primal instincts of humans and their consequences, she starred along with Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Brad Pitt. Diaz plays a pathological liar and a sociopath, an immigrant who is now living the high-life after escaping a sordid past as an exotic dancer. While Diaz earned positive reviews for her performance, the film was largely panned by critics.[55]
Diaz's first film of 2014 was the romantic revenge comedy The Other Woman opposite Leslie Mann and Kate Upton. Primarily filmed in Downtown Manhattan, New York City, it depicts Diaz as a successful, strong-minded lawyer, who discovers her boyfriend is married only to bond with his wife and another woman she discovers he has been cheating with.[56] While The Other Woman received mostly negative reviews from critics, who felt that it settled for cheap laughs,[57] it opened atop the US weekend box office with earnings of $24.7 million across the three days.[58] Diaz next appeared in the comedy Sex Tape, with Jason Segel, and will co-star in a new film adaptation of the musical, Annie, playing Miss Hannigan.[59]
Personal life
Diaz has had long-term relationships with video producer Carlos de la Torre (1990–1995),[60][61] actor Matt Dillon (1995–1998),[62] actor/singer Jared Leto (1999–2003),[63][64] singer/actor Justin Timberlake (2003–2006),[62][65] and New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez (2010–2011).[66] Diaz is unmarried and has no children. On why she has never married, Diaz told Esquire magazine in October 2012, "It just wasn't the thing I was drawn to."[67]Diaz received substantial defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on Justin Timberlake.[68] She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Diaz wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity visits for Charlie's Angels.[69] 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.[70] Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic,[71] Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made twelve years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion.[72]
On April 15, 2008, Diaz's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.[73]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Mask | Tina Carlyle | |
| 1995 | The Last Supper | Jude | |
| 1996 | She's the One | Heather Davis | |
| 1996 | Feeling Minnesota | Freddie Clayton | |
| 1996 | Head Above Water | Nathalie | |
| 1997 | Keys to Tulsa | Trudy | |
| 1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding | Kimmy Wallace | |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Celine Naville | |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | TV reporter | |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Mary Jensen | |
| 1998 | Very Bad Things | Laura Garrety | |
| 1999 | Man Woman Film | Celebrity | Cameo |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Lotte Schwartz | |
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Christina Pagniacci | |
| 2000 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Carol Faber | |
| 2000 | Charlie's Angels | Natalie Cook | |
| 2001 | The Invisible Circus | Faith | |
| 2001 | Shrek | Princess Fiona | Voice |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Julie Gianni | |
| 2002 | The Sweetest Thing | Christina Walters | |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Jenny Everdeane | |
| 2003 | 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 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Halls | Princess Fiona | Voice |
| 2008 | What Happens in Vegas | Joy McNally | |
| 2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Sara Fitzgerald | |
| 2009 | The Box | Norma Lewis | |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Princess Fiona | Voice |
| 2010 | Scared Shrekless | Princess Fiona | Voice |
| 2010 | Knight and Day | June Havens | |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Lenore Case | |
| 2011 | Bad Teacher | Elizabeth Halsey | |
| 2012 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Jules | |
| 2012 | Gambit | PJ Puznowski | |
| 2012 | A Liar's Autobiography | Sigmund Freud | |
| 2013 | The Counselor | Malkina | |
| 2013 | The Unbelievers | Herself | |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | Carly | |
| 2014 | Sex Tape | Annie | |
| 2014 | Annie | Miss Hannigan[59] | Post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | |
| 2002 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | |
| 2005 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | |
| 2005 | Trippin' | Herself[74] | Documentary |
| 2006 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | Cameo |
| 2008–2009 | Saturday Night Live | Kiki Deamore | 3 episodes |
| 2009 | Sesame Street | Herself | |
| 2010 | Top Gear | Herself | Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car |
| 2011 | The X Factor | Herself | Guest judge |
| 2013 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | Episode: Adam Levine/Kendrick Lamar |
| 2014 | Bad Teacher | Producer[75] |
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