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, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, model, producer |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Benji Madden (m. 2015) |
Diaz has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Being John Malkovich (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), and There's Something About Mary (1998) for which she also won the New York Film Critics Best Lead Actress Award. In 2013, Diaz was named the highest-paid actress over 40 in Hollywood.[1]
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Early life
Diaz was born in San Diego, California.[2][3] Her mother, Billie, was an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz, worked for the California oil company Unocal as a foreman.[4][5][6] Diaz has an elder sister, Chimene.[5] Her father's family is Cuban, and Diaz's ancestors had originally moved from Spain to Cuba. Later they settled in Ybor City, Tampa, before moving to California, where Emilio was born.[7][8] Her mother has English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry.[9][10][11] Diaz grew up in Long Beach[3][6] and attended Los Cerritos Elementary School, and then Long Beach Polytechnic High School.[2]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 months, she worked all over the world on contracts for companies including Calvin Klein and Levi's.[3] When she was age 17, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen.[12] Diaz also modeled for 2–3 months in Australia and shot a commercial for Coca-Cola in Sydney in 1991.[13][14][15]
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,[citation needed] Diaz avoided major film studio films[citation needed] for the next three years and took roles in the independent films The Last Supper (1996), 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.[20] 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.[3]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.[3] 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,[3] for which she earned $10 million. In 2003 she starred in Gangs of New York.
2005–2009
Diaz at the Shrek the Third London premiere in June 2007
Diaz's only film of 2007 was Shrek the Third, the third installment in the Shrek franchise. Although the film was met with mixed reviews from critics,[25] it grossed $798 million worldwide.[26] The same year, Diaz also voiced Princess Fiona in a thirty-minute Christmas special, directed by Gary Trousdale.[27] Diaz earned an estimated $50 million during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in the Shrek sequel and her next film What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher.[28][29] A romantic comedy by Tom Vaughan, Diaz and Kutcher portrayed two strangers who awaken together to discover they have gotten married following a night in which they won a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. While audiences reacted positively to the film, reviews were negative.[30]
In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box. Based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name,[31] My Sister's Keeper was released to mixed reviews in June 2009.[32] In the drama, Diaz plays a former lawyer and mother of two, one of whom is dying of leukemia. A moderate commercial success, it grossed $95 million worldwide, mostly from its domestic run.[33] 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.[34] Critical response towards the psychological horror film was mixed,[35] and, though having grossed its budget back, was considered a financial disappointment.[36]
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 from critics, who called it an "overblown, interminable and unfunny update",[42] the film ended its theatrical run on April 21, 2011, with a worldwide gross total of $228 million.[41] 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, and 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."[43] A commercial hit however, the R-rated comedy grossed $216 million worldwide.[44] Also in 2011, Diaz was listed among CEOWorld magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[45]
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.[52]
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.[53] While The Other Woman received mostly negative reviews from critics, who felt that it settled for cheap laughs,[54] it opened atop the US weekend box office with earnings of $24.7 million across the three days.[55] Also in 2014, Diaz starred in the comedy Sex Tape, with Jason Segel, and co-starred in another adaptation of the musical, Annie, playing Miss Hannigan.[56]
In late 2013, she published a health book, The Body Book: Feed, Move, Understand and Love Your Amazing Body, co-written with Sandra Bark.[57] It was no. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list in March 2014.[58]
Personal life
Diaz has had long-term relationships with video producer Carlos de la Torre,[59][60] actor Matt Dillon,[2] actor/singer Jared Leto,[61][62] singer/actor Justin Timberlake,[2][63] and New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez.[64] She married musician Benji Madden at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2015, after a 17-day engagement,[65] having been introduced seven months earlier by her close friend and now sister-in-law, Nicole Richie.[66] The marriage came as a reversal for Diaz, who had previously referred to the custom as a "dying institution" that doesn't "suit our world any longer".[67]Diaz received substantial defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after the National Enquirer posted an article and pictures with the headline “Cameron Caught Cheating” on their website in May 2005.[68] The photos claimed to show Diaz cheating on her boyfriend of the time, Justin Timberlake, with the married MTV producer of her show Trippin', Shane Nickerson.[68][69] After Diaz complained, the article and pictures were removed from the web and the hard copy did not contain any of the content. The magazine apologized to Diaz, Timberlake, Nickerson and his wife for the distress caused and said the story was untrue and the picture showed no more than a goodbye hug between friends.[68]
She endorsed Al Gore publicly during the United States presidential election, 2000. Known for her environmental activism, she is an early adopter of the Prius electric car and worked to promote Gore's Live Earth campaign, raising awareness of climate change.[70] 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.[71]
Diaz has publicly revealed that she suffers from ADHD, which prevents her from directing movies.[72]
Diaz has 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.[73] Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time article as saying she was germophobic,[74] in 2009, Diaz specifically stated that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public-bathroom doorknobs was distorted.[75]
On April 15, 2008, Diaz's father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.[76]
In February 2015, Diaz spoke of the effect of practicing Transcendental Meditation, saying, "To have that tool now and to be able to go inside to the deepest part of myself and to access that and to recharge my battery internally, within myself, I feel so badass. I really do. I think it's so awesome. I feel so empowered that I actually possess that."[77][78]
As of 2010, Diaz lives in Los Angeles, California.[79]
Filmography
Diaz in June 2009
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Herself | Episode: Surprise |
| 1998 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Cameron Diaz/The Smashing Pumpkins" |
| 2002 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Cameron Diaz/Jimmy Eat World" |
| 2005 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Cameron Diaz/Green Day" |
| 2005 | Trippin' | Herself (host)[81] | 10 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2009 | Sesame Street | Herself | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Top Gear | Herself | Episode: "15.5" |
| 2014 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Cameron Diaz/Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars" |
As producer
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2014 | Bad Teacher | 13 episodes[82] |
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