Cameron Diaz Biography

Cameron Diaz
Sign : Virgo
Height : 5' 9''
Hair : Blond
Eyes : Blue

Fan Mail : C/O Addis-Weschler & Associates
955 South Carrillo Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA

Family
Cameron was born on 30 August 1972 in San Diego, California, USA. Her father, Emilio Diaz, was a second generation Cuban American and worked as a foreman for an oil company. Her mother, who's German, English, and Native American, was an import-export broker. She has older sister, Chimene. The family Diaz moved up the coast when Cameron was young. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

Modeling
At the age of 16, when she was attending one Hollywood party, it was a typical Hollywood party where she met the photographer Jeff Dunas who suggested her to try modeling. She discussed it with her parents and close friends and she decided to go for it. Jeff put in a good word for Cameron at the Elite-modeling agency and less than a week after contacting him she had landed a modeling deal with Elite. It was her first deal. Finally after a few months she got a job doing a shoot for "Teen" magazine.

At the age of sixteen Cameron had the opportunity to travel to Japan. She was on her way to Asia for six months. After Japan Cameron began doing photo shoots all over the world. She filmed a Coca-Cola commercial in Australia and spent a lot of time flying between the US and Europe doing a lot of modeling for magazines. Despite all of this, Cameron also found time to get her high school degree.

Her talent landed her in such magazines as Mademoiselle and Seventeen, and in advertising campaigns for such companies as Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola, and Levi's. Her successful career took her to Japan, Australia, Morocco, and Paris. From being 16 to five years she toured the world modeling, Cameron returned to California at the age of 21.

The Mask - Big Break
He was her agent who suggested her that she try her hand at acting. Cameron stuck out twelve auditions before she finally got a part in the movie "The Mask" with Jim Carrey. It was her debut movie and which was big budget due to which many people were jealous on her, but also questions raised about her acting in that film.

My Best Friend's Wedding - First Big Hit
After that she appeared in many low budget and independent films like "The Last Supper" (1995), "She's the One" (1996), "Feeling Minnesota" (1996), Head Above Water (1996) and Keys to Tulsa (1997).

After doing Danny Boyle's "A Life Less Ordinary" (1997), she won rave reviews for her role of a perfect fiancée opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding" in 1997.

It was Farrelly brothers' "There's Something About Mary" in 1998, which gives her another big success. Diaz turned in an audience-pleasing performance in the cheerfully bawdy film, which proved to be one of the year's biggest box-office successes. Also she did "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and starred as Jon Favreau's unhinged fiancée in the black comedy "Very Bad Things" in the same year.

In 1999's "Being John Malkovich", in which she played puppeteer John Cusack's wife, and "Any Given Sunday", in which she played the president and co-owner of a football team in Oliver Stone's paean to American football.

2000's
In 2000 Diaz joined Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu in "Charlie's Angels", the much-hyped big-screen remake of the television classic.

The following year found Diaz endearing herself to younger audiences as the voice of Princess Fiona in the animated box-office smash "Shrek", as well as using her wide-eyed innocence to horrific effect in the Tom Cruise mindbender "Vanilla Sky".

The ill-fated comedy "The Next Best Thing" in 2002, Diaz would take a historical trip to the birthplace of America in director Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" before becoming the second (after Julia Roberts) actress to join the "$20 Million Club" with "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle".

Diaz further proved her box-office clout in 2004 when another sequel, "Shrek 2", became the third-highest grossing film of all-time.

Diaz switched gears in a big way in 2005, when she headed to the small-screen, hosting and producing the MTV reality show "Trippin".