DOB: 4 June, 1972 (Los Angeles, California, USA)
  Feild: Former Model / Actress
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Cameron Diaz was born in 1972, in San Diego, as the daughter of a Cuban-American father and an Anglo-German mother. She began her modeling career at the age of 16, when she hooked up with a photographer at a Hollywood party who helped her land a modeling contract with the Elite Modeling Agency. Persuading her parents into letting her fly to Japan with a friend to follow her modeling career was the first step, which then took her all over the globe for 5 years, landing her in such places as Mexico, Australia, Morocco and Paris. Cameron then settled down in her Hollywood apartment with Carlos de La Torre.
Her first step in an acting career came at 21. After 12 auditions Cameron landed a small role in The Mask (1994) without any previous acting experience. After complaining about her treatment as a minor role, stating that "I'm not gonna go practice with the choreographer so that he knows the steps he's gonna teach the real girl who gets the job", the director Charles Russell then convinced the producers to hand over the female lead. The stress of the role came as a shock to her, during production she fell victim to ulcers but the movie still went ahead. After this, she was offered a role in Mortal Kombat, but she got injured in marital arts training, injuring her wrist karate-chopping her trainer's head and lost the role.
Her two injuries deterred herself and the studios at further large production films, Cameron then returned to modeling, whilst side-lining it with small, independent films. She played Jude in The Last Supper (1995), and major roles in Feeling Minnesota (1996), She's the One (1996) and Head Above Water (1996).
She returned to major roles when she obtained a part in My Best Friends Wedding (1997) as the best friend of Julia Roberts. She then starred as the kidnappee in A Life Less Ordinary (1997) by director Danny Boyle alongside kidnapper Ewan McGregor. Her second most noted role would be in the Faralley Brothers' There's Something About Mary (1998), with her first being as one of the angels in the 2000 big screen production of Charlie's Angels.
On her plate now are both sequels to Charlie's Angels and Shrek (2001) due out in 2003 and 2004 respectively, of which, Cameron Diaz is entering the $20 Million Club, second actress to Julia Roberts in Charlie's Angels 2.