Cameron Michelle Diaz, born in San Diego, California, USA on August 30, 1972, is a top actress in the film industry. Diaz’s Cuban-American oil company foreman father and Anglo-German mother were educated in a rather open-minded family and enabled her to leave home at 16 to begin modeling. Therefore, she later identified herself as a “adventurous, independent and a tough kid.” Owing to her popular modeling career, she toured Japan, Australia, Morocco and Paris for the next five years, although she also featured in such popular magazines as Medemoiselle and Seventeen and became the angel of Kalvin Klein, Coca-Cola and Levi’s.
“In 1994, in the hit action comedy, “The Mask,” Diaz returned to California and made her acting debut by effectively winning the female lead role of torch-singing gang moll, Tina Carlyle, performing alongside the then popular comedian Jim Carrey. The beauty played in several low-budget movies for the following three years, such as “The Last Supper” and “Feeling Minnesota,” with which she could then sharpen her acting abilities that won her a part in the romantic comedy movie “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997). Next tapped to star in the crude comedy “There’s Something about Mary” (1998), it was this flick that helped her to enter Hollywood as well as catapulted her acting career to the top as she was nominated at the 1999 Golden Globes for Best Actress category, putting her among Hollywood actresses. The following year, through her critically applauded role in “Being John Malkovich” which won her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards, this movie darling received her full fledged star status.
Later that year, in Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday,” co-starring Al Pacino and Dennis Quaid, she was challenged to star as the sexy, hard-nosed new owner of a professional football club. Diaz unexpectedly proceeded to star in comparatively low-budget indie films, including the thriller “Very Bad Things” (1998) and “Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her” with her popularity profile rocketing much higher than before (2000). It was not long until she won a spot in the 1970s television show’s hit big-screen revival, “Charlie’s Angels,” in the fall of 2000, portraying one of the three female investigators alongside Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. For her, this was such a major change that she could illustrate her softer side with a disarming turn, as well as kick ass as a faux action hero convincingly. Then again, in the 2001 cartoon smash “Shrek,” which also included the voices of Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, Diaz won a legion of youthful admirers for her supplying the voice for the lively Princess Fiona. Her supporting role in another hit “Vanilla Sky” movie that year won Diaz even more critical acclaim, winning her a third Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
That was quite an accomplishment, enough for Diaz to obtain further film deals, calling some of them “Slackers,” “The Sweetest Thing,” and “Gangs of New York” all of which reached theaters in 2002. With her return to the second of the Charlie’s Angels movie launches, “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” reuniting her with Barrymore and Liu, she experienced her instant breakthrough performance the next year, 2003. The action comedy, which premiered in the United States on June 27, was number one for the weekend at the box office and made a record of more than $252 million worldwide. The actress appeared in “Trippin'” (2005) between film appearances, a 10-episode MTV travel series in which she and fellow celebrities toured exotic destinations and embraced unconventional practices, riding elephants in Nepal, sandboarding in Chile, and testing the Yellowstone hot springs. Shrek 2″Shrek 2″In Her Shoes”In Her Shoes” The 2006 comedy drama, “The Holiday” and the widely awaited “Shrek the Third” which is about to reach worldwide theaters in May 2007, were next on her movie resume.
Diaz had once been interested off-screen in a long-term partnership with video creator Carlos de La Torre, which tragically ended in 1995. After that, from 1996 to 1998, she dated her “There’s Something About Mary” costar Matt Dillon and was later dating actor Jared Leto, with whom she once engaged but later separated in November 2000. Diaz teamed up with pop star Justin Timberlake in 2003, who was nine years her junior, giving the pair ever further popularity. “We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship, and have done so mutually and as friends, with continued love and respect for one another.”In fact, we have ended our romantic relationship, and have done so mutually and as mates, with continued love and respect for each other.