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Cameron Diaz

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Date of Birth: 08/30/1972
Birth Place: San Diego, CA, USA
Famous For: Popular movies including "There's Something About Mary" and "Charlie's Angels" along with her modelling career.
Cameron Diaz started out as a model who left home to live in Japan after she landed a contract with the Elite Modeling Agency. Soon she was modeling all over the world, from Mexico to Australia, from Paris to Morocco, continuing to build her modeling career and earn a great living. Cameron appeared in advertisements for large companies such as Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola, and Levi's.

Cameron Diaz then shot to stardom at the tender age of 21 when she landed a potentially sky-rocketing role opposite rising superstar comedian Jim Carrey in The Mask. With her foot well in the door of Hollywood films, she was next afforded the chance to kick Hollywood butt in the feature film version of Mortal Kombat. For this role, Diaz would require martial arts training. But luck would send Diaz down a different road after she injured her wrist karate-chopping her trainer's head. Cameron Diaz instead returned to some high-paying modeling jobs and found smaller, low-paying roles in independent films.

Cameron played a character named Jude in The Last Supper (1995) - "I did the Last Supper simply to get the opportunity to work with other actors. I never had any other experience acting other than The Mask." It was during this year (1995) that Cameron ended her longstanding, 5-year relationship with Carlos de La Torre. In Feeling Minnesota (1996), she runs off with her brother-in-law (Keanu Reeves). In She's the One (1996), Cameron sleeps with bros. Ed Burns and Mike McGlone. Strangely, many of Cameron's acting roles involved playing vulnerable females, often tied-up; Cameron also displays her well-shaped body in these movies with swimsuits and several swimming scenes.

Returning to the big-studio films, Cameron's task was to star side-by-side with Hollywood cutie Julia Roberts who was also making somewhat of a return in My Best Friend's Wedding. The summer romantic comedy scored well among critics. Cameron then went on to A Life Less Ordinary by Danny Boyle with kidnapper Ewan McGregor.

Cameron has starred in her two biggest movies yet - the Faralley brothers' There's Something About Mary with her ex-beau and costar Matt Dillon, and Charlie's Angels.

Filmography

Fun with Dick and Jane - 2005
Shrek 2 - 2004
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - 2003
Gangs of New York - 2002
The Sweetest Thing - 2002
The Invisible Circus - 2001
Shrek - 2001
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her - 2001
Vanilla Sky - 2001
Charlie's Angels - 2000
The Way of the Gun - 2000
Any Given Sunday - 1999
Being John Malkovich - 1999
Very Bad Things - 1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 1998
There's Something About Mary - 1998
My Best Friend's Wedding - 1997
A Life Less Ordinary - 1997
Keys to Tulsa - 1997
Head Above Water - 1996
She's the One - 1996
Feeling Minnesota - 1996
The Last Supper - 1995
The Mask - 1994