Cameron Diaz

Actor

Date Of Birth:

30 August 1971

Place Of Birth:

Long Beach, California

An athletic blonde with wide-set blue eyes, Cameron Diaz made a conspicuous movie debut opposite Jim Carrey in the wacky 1994 fantasy The Mask. Then she became a superstar by appearing in more than a dozen movies in just six years. In both independent and mainstream movies, Diaz played hot babes ( She’s the One, 1996), nice girls ( There’s Something About Mary, 1998), and even frumpy, neurotic types ( Being John Malkovich, 1999). There’s Something About Mary was a particular hit for Diaz, a raucous comedy featuring her as the beautiful and kindhearted object of desire for an eternally clumsy Ben Stiller. Her other films include Charlie’s Angels (2000) and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003, both with Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu), Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the CGI comedy series Shrek (2001-07, with Mike Myers). Diaz then took a break from the movies to appear on MTV in her own non-fiction adventure series, Trippin’. She returned to the big screen in the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday, co-starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, and also co-starred in What Happens in Vegas (2008, with Ashton Kutcher) and My Sister’s Keeper (2009, starring Abigail Breslin).

Extra Credit:

Diaz’s father is Cuban-American; her mother is a German, English, and native American mix… Diaz dates singer Justin Timberlake.