Cameron Diaz Profile and Biography

Cameron Diaz was born in San Diego, California (CA), United State of America (USA), the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger, and in the pipeline department, until he retired in 1998. Cameron Diaz’s father, who was born in Los Angeles County, was a second-generation Cuban American (her grandparents settled in Tampa’s Ybor City) and her mother is of English, German and Cherokee ancestry. Cameron Diaz has one older sister, Chimene Diaz. Cameron Diaz attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg.

In the modeling career, Cameron Diaz start her career as a fashion model on 1988. Cameron Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. After graduating from high school, Cameron Diaz went to work in Japan and met video director Carlos de la Torre. Cameron Diaz return to the United State (U.S.) at 1989. For the next few years after 1993, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. Cameron Diaz modeled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi’s. Cameron Diaz was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.



In the acting career, Cameron Diaz auditioned for The Mask on 1993, 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 lead. After obtaining the lead female role, Cameron Diaz immediately started acting lessons. Over the next three years, Cameron Diaz won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She’s the One, preferring to feel her way effectively into the business. Her breakthrough began with her roles in My Best Friend’s Wedding and There’s Something About Mary, a film for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress — Musical or Comedy. Cameron Diaz won critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards, and the SAG Awards. During 1990–2000, Diaz starred in many films, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, A Life Less Ordinary, Any Given Sunday, and the hit adaptation of Charlie’s Angels. Cameron Diaz on 2001 won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, for which she earned $10 million. Cameron Diaz on 2003 received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese’s epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Her next film performances were in Shrek 2, In Her Shoes, and The Holiday. During 2004 and early 2005, Cameron Diaz explored some of the planet’s environmentally unique locations while discovering ways to help preserve them for the 10-episode MTV series Trippin’ which featured numerous celebrities and friends of Cameron Diaz, such as Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Mark Hoppus, Eva Mendes, and Justin Timberlake.

Cameron Diaz returned to the screen for Shrek the Third in 2007, in which she co-starred with her then boyfriend Justin Timberlake. Cameron Diaz was set to team up again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey in the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. Cameron Diaz also appeared in the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, opposite Ashton Kutcher. Cameron Diaz will again voice Princess Fiona in Shrek 4 and starred in The Box, a horror thriller released November 6, 2009, co-starring James Marsden.

Cameron Diaz on July 7, 2007 participated at Live Earth in New York (NY) by introducing Bon Jovi and The Police. Cameron Diaz on 2007, People ranked her as the Best Dressed Female Celebrity. In August 2008, Forbes Magazine listed Cameron Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood. Cameron Diaz reportedly earned $50 million in the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas and the Shrek films. Cameron Diaz made an uncredited guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on February 14, 2009 with guest star Alec Baldwin on a skit called “The Cougars’ Den”.

(Cameron Diaz Profile and Biography source: Wikipedia.Org)