Biography of Cameron Diaz

CAMERON DIAZ is the most luminescent newcomer to silver screen in the 1990's. At age 21 and only with her modeling experience under the hood, Cameron Diaz landed a potentially sky-rocketing role opposite rising superstar comedian Jim Carrey in The Mask. With her foot well in the door of Hollywood films, she was next afforded the chance to kick Hollywood ass in the feature film version of Mortal Kombat. For this role, Cameron Diaz would require martial arts training. But luck would send Cameron Diaz down a different road after she injured her wrist karate-chopping her trainer's head. Cameron Diaz instead returned to some high-paying modeling jobs and found smaller, low-paying roles in independent films. Cameron states, "I think that definitely your chances of coming across material in independent films--material that is more interesting and more challenging--is more likely than in big-studio films. You always have to leave your doors open to independent films so you have that opportunity."

Cameron Diaz patience and discipline in her acting career shows how Cameron Diaz had matured through her modeling career. Cameron Diaz was sixteen at the time, and she happened to be at the right place at the right time... at a Hollywood party! There she hooked up with a photographer who, within a week, helped her land a modeling contract with the Elite Modeling Agency. She talked her father (a Cuban-American foreman) and her mother (a German, Native American, and English broker) into letting her expand her career in Japan, accompanied only by another fifteen-year-old fellow model. Her parents were rather easy-going, taking their head-banging party-going kid everywhere. "I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair." Her mother even accompanied her to first Van Halen concert. So in the end, Cameron Diaz was off to Japan. Cameron Diaz advises, "Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home." So the next five years were spent traveling from continent to continent, country to country. "Australia, Morocco, Paris, Mexico, here, there, everywhere," before settling in her Hollywood apartment with Carlos de La Torre, a video producer and her companion for five years.

Posing for Mademoiselle and Seventeen and appearing in ads for Calvin Klein, Levi's, and Coca Cola is no small accomplishment for a 21-year-old woman. Just barely a woman, Cameron Diaz felt modeling angst. There was more to her life, and she knew it. As a suggestion from her agent, Cameron Diaz tried going down the well-traveled road of modeling to acting. Who would believe after twelve auditions, this fresh actress--born from modeling--would land a small role in Jim Carrey's film, The Mask? Cameron wanted in, and she had the perfect opportunity. "Anything the filmmakers wanted, I would do. But it got to the point where I said, 'You know what? I'm not doing it anymore. I'm not gonna go practice with the choreographer so that he knows the steps he's gonna teach the real girl who gets the job.'" Director Charles Russell caught wind of Cameron's feelings and went to the producers at New Line Cinema, and convinced them to award her the female lead. At the time, Cameron Diaz didn't fully understand the scope of what she was getting into. "This is kind of a big film, isn't it?" Cameron Diaz asked a month into production. Yes, it was! She got ulcer. Cameron then realized the heavy weight on her shoulders, the responsibility for the success of the film.

The studios weren't too confident or keen in hiring Cameron Diaz after the ulcer during Mask production and her injury during Kombat pre-production. So Diaz trotted down the road of independent films, scoring several roles. She played a character named Jude in The Last Supper (1995), directed by Stacy Title. "I did the Last Supper simply to get the opportunity to work with other actors. I never had any other experience acting other than The Mask." It was during this year (1995) that Cameron Diaz ended her longstanding, 5-year relationship with Carlos de La Torre. In Feeling Minnesota (1996), she runs off with her brother-in-law (Keanu Reeves). In She's the One (1996), Cameron Diaz sleeps with bros. Ed Burns and Mike McGlone. Strangely, many of Cameron Diaz acting roles involved playing vulnerable females, often tied-up; Cameron Diaz also displays her well-shaped body in these movies with swimsuits and several swimming scenes. As the wife of a prominent judge (Harvey Keitel) more than twice her age, she finds herself in a terrible mess after discovering a dead body in Head Above Water (1996). That same year, Cameron Diaz was named the N.A.T.O./ShowWest Female Star of Tomorrow by the National Association of Theater Owners. She now had several films under her belt, award recognition, and a small following of fans.

Returning to the big-studio films, Cameron Diaz task was to star side-by-side with Hollywood cutie Julia Roberts who was also making somewhat of a return in My Best Friend's Wedding. The summer romantic comedy scored well among critics, not to mention Cameron Diaz performance aside Julia. Cameron Diaz then went on to A Live Less Ordinary by Danny Boyle with kidnapper Ewan McGregor. Cameron Diaz recently starred in the Faralley brothers' There's Something About Mary with her ex-beau and costar Matt Dillon. This box-office smash earned Cameron Diaz her biggest Hollywood boost yet. She followed her comedy shasher with an independent film Very Bad Things (1998) as Laura Garrety. Cameron Diaz's upcoming films include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) as a blonde TV reporter, and On Any given Sunday (1999).

Filmography of Cameron Diaz

1. W.A.S.P.S. (2005) (in production)
2. Shrek 3 (2006) (pre-production) (voice) Cameron Diaz plays Princess Fiona
3. In Her Shoes (2005) (post-production) Cameron Diaz plays Maggie
4. Shrek 2 (2004) (voice) Cameron Diaz plays Princess Fiona
5. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) Cameron Diaz plays Natalie Cook - The Angels--Natalie, Dylan, and Alex--prepare to strike without warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver ban
6. Shrek 4-D (2003) (voice) Cameron Diaz plays Princess Fiona
   ... aka Shrek 3-D (2003) (USA: DVD title)
7. Gangs of New York (2002) Cameron Diaz plays Jenny Everdeane
8. Minority Report (2002) (uncredited) Cameron Diaz plays Woman on Metro
9. Sweetest Thing, The (2002) Cameron Diaz plays Christina Walters - To ease their roommate (Selma Blair) through a relationship-induced depression, Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate take her out on the town. During their attempts to find her "Mr. Right Now",
10. Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (2001) (V) (voice) Cameron Diaz plays Princess Fiona
11. Vanilla Sky (2001) Cameron Diaz plays Julie Gianni
12. Shrek (2001) (voice) Cameron Diaz plays Princess Fiona
13. Invisible Circus, The (2001) Cameron Diaz plays Faith
14. Charlie's Angels (2000) Cameron Diaz plays Natalie Cook - Three beautiful private detectives who work for a suave playboy boss are called in to rescue soon-to-be billionaire software mogul Eric Knox
    ... aka 3 Engel für Charlie (2000) (Germany)
15. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) Cameron Diaz plays Carol (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")
16. Any Given Sunday (1999) Cameron Diaz plays Christina Pagniacci
17. Being John Malkovich (1999) Cameron Diaz plays Lotte Schwartz
18. Man Woman Film (1999) Cameron Diaz plays Random Celebrity
19. Very Bad Things (1998) Cameron Diaz plays Laura Garrity - A group of friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party.. only things go wrong and a woman is killed. Soon, the bodies are piling up and the friends find themselves turning against one another as the coverup builds.
20. There's Something About Mary (1998) .... Mary Jensen
    ... aka There's Something More About Mary (1998) (USA: DVD title)
21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Cameron Diaz plays Blonde TV Reporter
22. Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) Cameron Diaz plays Celine Naville
23. My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) Cameron Diaz plays Kimberly Wallace
24. Keys to Tulsa (1997) Cameron Diaz plays Trudy
25. Head Above Water (1996) Cameron Diaz plays Nathalie
26. Feeling Minnesota (1996) Cameron Diaz plays Freddie Clayton
27. She's the One (1996) Cameron Diaz plays Heather Davis
28. Last Supper, The (1995) Cameron Diaz plays Jude
29. Mask, The (1994) Cameron Diaz plays Tina Carlyle

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News, Gossip and Trivia Cameron Diaz

Justin Timberlake is cheating on Cameron Diaz

Even as pop icon Justin Timberlake and his actress girlfriend Cameron Diaz are reportedly planning to tie the knot around Christmas, this year, rumours have surfaced that Justin Timberlake has been cheating on Cameron Diaz with a 26-year old brunette, Monica.

Although the "Senorita" singer's spokesperson has rubbished the rumours, Monica has been claiming that she is secretly dating Justin Timberlake.

"Monica is telling everyone they are secretly dating, Cameron Diaz has no idea. They met because he has been hanging out with this crew from UCLA that she is friends with," the New York Post quoted an insider as saying.

Cameron Diaz News Oct 2004

Cameron Diaz burst into tears recently on Oprah Winfrey's show.

Though weeping on Oprah might not sound unusual, the reason for the blubbering was. Cameron Diaz was apparently beside herself about the apathy of American citizens.

Sounds as if she could have used a blue-state blanky and a voter hanky.

The actress Cameron Diaz graced Oprah's stage along with Drew Barrymore, P Diddy and Christina Aguilera. The joint appearance was an effort to encourage Americans to vote in November.

As if the soggy display were not enough to motivate, Cameron Diaz had a slogan she evidently thought might help. Cameron Diaz said, "If you think rape should be legal, then don't vote."

Cameron Diaz sobbed that "apathy did not create this country, but it's going to destroy it. I'm really scared. We're really alone, where we used to be the strongest in the world, we're alone."

Some understands that Cameron Diaz has been hanging out with Justin Timberlake, so she must've been having a "mouth malfunction."

Cameron Diaz and her popstar boyfriend Justin Timberlake grabbed a photographer's camera after he and a partner surprised them outside a ritzy hotel.

Representatives for the stars told that they were "ambushed by two men who jumped out of a concealed hiding place on a dark, deserted street late at night."

The statement says the actions by Charlie's Angels star Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake were taken in self-defense.

After a brief fight with the photographer outside the famed Chateau Marmont, Cameron Diaz broke free and left with the camera.

The publicists say she took it hoping it could be used to identify the men to authorities.