The Cameron Diaz Handbook - Everything you need to know about Cameron Diaz

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Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model.

She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary.

Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona for the Shrek series and Bad Teacher.

Diaz received Golden Globe award nominations for her performances in the movies There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.

This book is your ultimate resource for Cameron Diaz. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Cameron Diaz, The Last Supper (1995 film), She's the One, Feeling Minnesota, Head Above Water, Keys to Tulsa, My Best Friend's Wedding, A Life Less Ordinary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), There's Something About Mary, Very Bad Things, Being John Malkovich, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, The Invisible Circus (film), Any Given Sunday, Charlie's Angels (film), Shrek, Vanilla Sky, The Sweetest Thing, Gangs of New York, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Shrek 2, In Her Shoes (film), The Holiday, Shrek the Third, What Happens in Vegas, My Sister's Keeper (film), The Box (2009 film), Shrek Forever After, Knight and Day, The Green Hornet (2011 film), Bad Teacher, Gambit (2012 film), What to Expect When You're Expecting (film), Trippin', Shrek the Halls, Scared Shrekless.

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• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781743382837
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Contents

Articles Cameron Diaz The Last Supper (1995 film) She's the One Feeling Minnesota Head Above Water

Keys to Tulsa

My Best Friend's Wedding A Life Less Ordinary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) There's Something About Mary Very Bad Things Being John Malkovich Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her The Invisible Circus (film) Any Given Sunday Charlie's Angels (film) Shrek Vanilla Sky The Sweetest Thing Gangs of New York Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Shrek 2 In Her Shoes (film) The Holiday Shrek the Third What Happens in Vegas My Sister's Keeper (film) The Box (2009 film) Shrek Forever After Knight and Day The Green Hornet (2011 film) Bad Teacher Gambit (2012 film) What to Expect When You're Expecting (film)

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101 104 110 117 121 126 131 139 151 159 163 165

Trippin' Shrek the Halls Scared Shrekless

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Article Licenses License

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Born

Occupation

Years active

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz, July 2010

Cameron Michelle Diaz August 30, 1972 San Diego, California, U.S.

Actress, model

1988–93 (model) 1993–present (actress)

Cameron Michelle Diaz(born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the moviesThe Mask,My Best Friend's Wedding, andThere's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the twoCharlie's Angelsfilms, voicing the character Princess Fiona for theShrek series andBad Teacher. Diaz received Golden Globe award nominations for her performances in the moviesThere's Something About Mary,Being John Malkovich,Vanilla Sky, andGangs of New York.

Early life Diaz was born in San Diego, California. Her mother, Billie (n e Early), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field [1] [2] [3] gauger. She has an older sister, Chimene. Her father's family came from Spain via Cuba (her Spanish paternal [4] [5] grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City and her father was born in Los Angeles County). Her mother is of [6] [7] [8] English, German, Native American, and Dutch descent. Diaz was raised in Long Beach, California and [3] [9] attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

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Career

Modeling At age sixteen, she began her career as a fashion model, contracted with modeling agency Elite Model [3] Management. For the next few years, she worked around the world for contracts with major companies, modeling [3] for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was 17 years old, she was featured on the front cover of [10] the July 1990 issue of the magazineSeventeen.

Acting

Diaz at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for the movieGangs of New York.

Tom Cruise and Diaz at the MTV Movie Awards, June 6, 2010

[11] At age 21, Diaz auditioned for the movieThe Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female main actress. Having no previous acting experience, [12] she started acting lessons after being cast.The Maskbecame one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994, [13] [14] [15] earned Diaz nominations for several awards and launched her as a sex symbol.

During the next three years, she had roles in the low-budget independent filmsThe Last Supper(1995),Feeling Minnesota(1996),She's the One(1996),Keys to Tulsa(1996), andA Life Less Ordinary(1997), preferring to feel her way effectively into the business. She was scheduled to feature in the filmMortal Kombat, but had to resign after [16] breaking her hand while training for the role. She returned to mainstream films with the major movie successesMy Best Friend's Wedding(1997) andThere's Something About Mary(1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category ofBest

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[3] Actress–Musical or Comedyreceived critical acclaim for her performance in. She Being John Malkovich(1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards). Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz featured in many movies, such asThings You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her,Very Bad Things,Any Given Sunday, [3] and the successful adaptation ofCharlie's Angels. During 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 [3] Awards forVanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movieShrek, for which she earned $10amillion. During 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's 2002 epicGangs of New York, and became the third actress (afterWeddingcostar Julia Roberts) to earn $20amillion for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next movies wereIn Her Shoes(2005) andThe Holiday(2006). She was preparing to work again withThe Maskco-star Jim Carrey for the filmFun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature inIn Her Shoes. Diaz reportedly earned $50amillion during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her [17] [18] [19] roles inWhat Happens in Vegasopposite Ashton Kutcher, and theShreksequels. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's KeeperandThe Box. During 2010, Forbes Magazine ranked Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic femalecelebrity, ranking number 60 [20] [21] among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz was cast as the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of The Smurfs, and as well as voicing Princess Fiona for the movieShrek Forever After, also reunited with herVanilla Skyco-star Tom Cruise in the action/comedyKnight and Day, and on January 14, 2011, she played "Lenore Case", the journalist in the remake of the 1940s film,The Green Hornet. She was listed among [22] CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers. In June of that same year, she appeared alongside Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel in Bad Teacher.

Personal life Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, afterThe National [23] Enquirerhad claimed she was cheating on then-paramour Justin Timberlake. She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Diaz wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while [24] making publicity visits forCharlie's Angels. Diaz has also 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. [25] Although she was quoted by a 1997Timemagazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition ofReal Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 [26] years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion. [27] On April 15, 2008, her father, Emilio Diaz, died of pneumonia, aged 58.

Relationships During 1995, she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon, with whom she co-starred inThere's Something About [28] Mary; the relationship ended during 1998. [29] She began dating Jared Leto in 1999 and the couple became engaged in 2000. In 2003, they ended their four-year [30] relationship. [28] Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006. During October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared inUs Weekly. Representatives for the pair [31] claimed that they were acting a scene on a set.

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The Invisible Circus

Any Given Sunday

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1995

1994

1996

Christina Pagniacci

Faith

Tina Carlyle

Heather

Jude

ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress–Drama

Title

Year

The Last Supper

She's the One

Celine Naville

Nathalie

Blonde TV Reporter

Mary Jensen

American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Blockbuster Award for Favorite Actress–Comedy MTV Movie Award for Best Performance New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated–ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Blockbuster Award for Favorite Supporting Actress–Comedy Nominated–Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture

The Mask

1999

Very Bad Things

Laura Garrety

Random Celebrity

cameo

Nominated–American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture Nominated–Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Being John Malkovich

Carol Faber

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Feeling Minnesota

Films

Freddie Clayton

Role

Notes

Man Woman Film

Lotte Schwartz

A Life Less Ordinary

My Best Friend's Wedding

There's Something About Mary

Diaz was in a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez from July 2010 to [32] September 2011.

Kimberly Wallace

Trudy

Head Above Water

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1997

1998

Keys to Tulsa

What To Expect When You're Expecting

Norma Lewis

Knight and Day

Voice Nominated–Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production

Princess Fiona

Jules

P. J. Puznowski

Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress in a Comedy Nominated–ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress–Musical or Comedy

What Happens in Vegas

Shrek the Third

Nominateda—Razzie Award for Worst Actress

Nominateda—Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress

Princess Fiona

Shrek

Cameron Diaz

[33] Filming complete

In Her Shoes

2006

The Holiday

Natalie Cook

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

2003

Shrek 2

2005

2007

2004

2008

2000

2001

Charlie's Angels

2009

Voice

Gambit

2012 (scheduled)

2011

The Green Hornet

Shrek Forever After

The Box

Bad Teacher

2010

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Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated–MTV Movie Awards for Best Line (For "I signed the release, so you can stick anything you want in my slot!".)

2002

My Sister's Keeper

Sara Fitzgerald

The Sweetest Thing

Amanda Woods

Natalie Cook

Princess Fiona

Jenny Everdeane

Christina Walters

Elizabeth Halsey

Filming

Lenore Case

Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie Star: Female

Julie Gianni

Vanilla Sky

Nominated–ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress–Motion Picture Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie Star: Female

June Havens

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–AFI Award for Best Actress Nominated–ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated–Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture Nominated–Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Maggie Feller

Voice

Gangs of New York

Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture Nominated–Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble

Princess Fiona

Voice

Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress in a Comedy Nominated–Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with Ashton Kutcher) and for Worst Actress

Joy McNally

Cameron Diaz

Television

Year

2005

2007

2008–2009

2009

2010

2010

2011

Title

[34] Trippin'

Shrek the Halls

Saturday Night Live

Sesame Street

Top Gear

Scared Shrekless

The X Factor (French edition)

References

Herself

Role

Princess Fiona

Kiki Deamore

Herself

Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car

Princess Fiona

Herself, as a guest judge

MTV–Travel Documentary

Voice Made for television

3 episodes

Notes

Series 15, Episode 5–appeared alongside Tom Cruise

Voice Made for television

Invited by M6 for the semi final of the competition to judge the contestants' performances

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