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Name : Cameron Diaz
Birth Name : Cameron Michelle Diaz
Birth Date : 08/30/1972
Birth Place : San Diego, California, USA
Height : 5' 9"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress, model
Father : Emilio Diaz
Mother : Billie
Relation : Carlos De La Torre (1990-1995), Matt Dillon (1996 to
1998), Jared Leto (1999-2003), Justin Timberlake
Claim Fame : As Tina Carlyle in "The Mask" (1994)
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American film
actress.
Diaz was born and raised in San Diego, California. Her father is
from Cuba. After pursuing a modeling career, she was cast in the
commercially successful 1994 Jim Carrey film The Mask. Her role was
minimal and essentially embodied the stereotypical "pretty blonde
girl" that is oft to be found in cinema.
However, she subsequently took roles in films with more substantial
subject matter such as Feeling Minnesota. She stood out as a
"perfect" fiancée in the romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding
(1997) and many consider her role in the crude comedy There's
Something About Mary (1998) to be her real break-through
performance.
Diaz then veered away from mainstream cinema into independent film
with the quirky Being John Malkovich (1999) and Oliver Stone took
risks when he gave her a role in Any Given Sunday (1999). Both films
enjoyed critical and commercial success and critics heralded Diaz's
performances.
Diaz is widely considered to be an extremely attractive woman, and
as such has been listed in "sexiest" and "most beautiful" lists in
various periodicals including FHM and People.
In 2004 an old S&M video, where Diaz appeared when she was 19 years
old, was leaked out on the Internet. The video was a recording of a
S&M photo session with Diaz and another girl torturing a man. Diaz
has filed a suit against the Russian Internet site distributing the
video, but this has attracted enough attention to this obscure video
to temporarily make it very popular on the Net. The file is now
distributed by many porn sites and can be downloaded from any major
Peer-to-peer (P2P) network.
In September of 2004, Diaz created some controversy after her
appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The show in question,
concerned celebrities encouraging young people to vote in the
upcoming Presidential election.
While Diaz was sitting next to her Charlie's Angels co-star Drew
Barrymore, singer Christina Aguilera, and hip-hop mogul Sean "P.
Diddy" Combs, Diaz gave the ominous warning " If you think rape
should be legal then don't vote!"
Several pundits like conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham
alleged that Diaz was cleverly trying to disguise her scare
tactic-like statement as another way of saying that if you didn't
vote for Democratic challenger John Kerry, a victorious President
George W. Bush would try to ban the right to have a legal abortion.
It should be noted that Cameron Diaz was very vocal of her support
for Al Gore in 2000. Diaz went as far as sporting a t-shirt that
read I WON'T VOTE FOR A SON OF A BUSH! while making publicity for
Charlie's Angels.
Diaz got in even further controversy about a month later when she
was caught attacking a tabloid photographer. Diaz and her boyfriend,
Justin Timberlake snatched away a photographer's camera when he and
another man surprised them outside the ritzy Chateau Marmont hotel.
Representatives for Diaz and Timberlake claimed that they were
"ambushed by two men, who jumped out of a concealed hiding place on
a dark, deserted street late at night." They added that "any actions
by Diaz and Timberlake were merely taken in self-defense." The
pictures of Diaz snatching the camera soon appeared in "Us Weekly."
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