Born:
August 30th, 1972
Born in San Diago, California, Cameron Diaz grew up in the
typical fashion of any all-American girl. Except of course, she was an
exceptional
beauty.
Cameron's dad, Emilio,
a Cuban American, was a foreman at a California Oil Company. Her mom,
Billie, who's German, English, and Native American, was an import-export
broker. Cameron was raised in Long Beach alongside her sister Chimene.
As she was growing
up, Cameron was like most girls, listening to lots of modern music and
acting wild. But by her mid-teens, Cameron began attending Hollywood parties
and staying out until the wee hours of the morning. It was during this
party phase of her life that Cameron ended up meeting a well connected
man who would change her whole life.
That man was Jeff
Dunas, a photography, who was introduced to Cameron, only 16 years old,
at a Hollywood party, and within a week she had signed a contract with
the Elite Modeling Agency. Diaz spent the next five years touring the
globe and eventually settled into a Hollywood apartment with video
producer
Carlos de La Torre with whom she carried on a five year relationship.
But modeling was not enough for Cameron. She debuted in 1994's "The
Mask" opposite Jim Carrey. The movie received a lot of attention
and many wondered what the beautiful blue-eyed blonde would do next.
Her next movie was
set to be Mortal Kombat but Diaz injured her wrist karate-chopping her
trainer's head in preparation for the role and had to back out of the
movie. Diaz ran off with her brother-in-law, played by Keanu Reeves, in
Feeling Minnesota; she slept with brothers Edward Burns and Mike McGlone
in She's the One; and perhaps most difficult of all to believe, she played
Harvey Keitel's wife in Head Above Water. The National Association of
Theater Owners acknowledged her string of indie triumphs by naming her
the N.A.T.O./ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow.
Diaz returned to the
big studio movies in My Best Friend's Wedding, opposite Julia Roberts.
Rave reviews followed and it appeared that Diaz had made the transition
from model to actress. Her next movie, "Life Less Ordinary"
was not as well received. Diaz's seemed to corner the Hollywood market
on beauties with, "There's Something About Mary". Critics and
audiences agreed that the movie was a hit, and Diaz was the shining star.
Diaz and Matt Dillon, her boyfriend of nearly three years, have recently
split.
More recently, Cameron
starred opposite Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday, with John Cusack in Being
John Malkovich (in which she's hardly recognizable), and most recently,
she starring in Charlie's Angels with fellow beauties Drew Barrymore and
Lucy Liu.
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