AKA Cameron Michelle Diaz

Born: 30-Aug-1972
Birthplace: San Diego, CA

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: There's Something About Mary

Diaz met a photographer at a party when she was 16, was signed as a model, and worked in Japan, Australia, Morocco, Paris, Mexico, until deciding she wanted to be an actress. Numerous try-outs led to no call-backs, until Diaz auditioned for a small role as a reporter in the 1994 adventure, The Mask. After several screen tests, they hired someone else to play the reporter, and Diaz was cast as Jim Carrey's love interest instead. Diaz has appeared in My Best Friend's Wedding, Charlie's Angels, and Gangs of New York. Some of her most memorable movies, though, have been smaller, independent films like There's Something About Mary and the cannibal comedy The Last Supper. In Being John Malkovich, she played John Cusack's unrecognisably plain, frumpy wife.

Diaz became briefly "controversial" in England in 2000, when she modeled for an ad for the British film magazine Hotdog. In the ad, Diaz has her hand inside her shorts and panties. "Diaz is fully clothed", said a spokesman for Hotdog, "and wearing knickers underneath her shorts. The shot is cheeky and innocent." But with the ad's tag line the pleasure's all mine, the Advertising Standards Authority banned the ads as an allusion to masturbation.

Father: Emilio Diaz (oil industry foreman, b. 1950, d. 2008)
Mother: Billie Early (businesswoman)
Sister: Chimene Diaz
Boyfriend: Carlos de La Torre (video producer; dated 1990-95)
Boyfriend: Matt Dillon (actor, dated 1996-98)
Boyfriend: Jared Leto (actor, dated 1999-2003)
Boyfriend: Robbie Williams (singer, dated 2003)
Boyfriend: Justin Timberlake (singer, dated 2003-06)

    High School: Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, CA (1989)

    Mugged Beverly Hills, CA (2003)
    Cuban Ancestry Paternal side
    English Ancestry Maternal side
    German Ancestry Maternal side
    Risk Factors: Smoking, Yoga

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    What Happens in Vegas... (22-Apr-2008)
    Shrek the Third (17-May-2007) [VOICE]
    The Holiday (5-Dec-2006)
    In Her Shoes (14-Sep-2005)
    Shrek 2 (15-May-2004) [VOICE]
    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (18-Jun-2003)
    Gangs of New York (9-Dec-2002)
    The Sweetest Thing (10-Apr-2002)
    Slackers (1-Feb-2002) Herself
    Vanilla Sky (10-Dec-2001)
    America: A Tribute to Heroes (21-Sep-2001) Herself
    Shrek (22-Apr-2001) [VOICE]
    The Invisible Circus (26-Jan-2001)
    Welcome to Hollywood (27-Oct-2000) Herself
    Charlie's Angels (22-Oct-2000)
    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (22-Jan-2000)
    Any Given Sunday (16-Dec-1999)
    Being John Malkovich (29-Oct-1999)
    Man Woman Film (29-Jan-1999)
    Very Bad Things (11-Sep-1998)
    There's Something About Mary (15-Jul-1998)
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (22-May-1998)
    A Life Less Ordinary (24-Oct-1997)
    My Best Friend's Wedding (20-Jun-1997)
    Keys to Tulsa (20-Mar-1997)
    Head Above Water (7-Nov-1996)
    Feeling Minnesota (13-Sep-1996)
    She's the One (23-Aug-1996)
    The Last Supper (8-Sep-1995)
    The Mask (29-Jul-1994)

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