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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz became the second of only three actresses to join the $20 million dollar club after receiving this fee for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

Hollywood star returns to her American sweetheart blonde hair in June 2007.

Name Cameron Diaz

Birth name Cameron Michelle Diaz

Date of birth 30 August 1972

Star sign Virgo

Birthplace San Diego, California, USA

Height 5ft 81/2in

Eye colour Blue

Marriages None

Children None

Biography

Blonde bombshell Cameron Diaz is best known for her roles in Hollywood blockbusters There’s Something About Mary and Charlie’s Angels – as well as high-profile beaus including Justin Timberlake.

Born in San Diego, California, Cameron started out as a fashion model, working for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi’s and gracing the cover of Seventeen magazine.

Despite having no previous acting experience, she won the part as the female lead in Jim Carrey’s 1994 comedy, The Mask. After several roles in independent films, she achieved further mainstream success, starring opposite Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), the gross-out hit, There’s Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe. Cameron teamed up with Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore for Charlie’s Angels and the trio all returned for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle in 2003 – a sequel that netted Cameron a cool $20 million.

After relationships with actors Matt Dillon and Jared Leto, Cameron hooked up with music megastar Justin Timberlake – eight years her junior – in 2003. The pair split in 2007 but reunited to promote Shrek The Third, in which they both starred. She has since been linked with singer John Mayer and magician Criss Angel.

Despite her screen success, Cameron suffered a personal trauma in 2008 while promoting rom-com What Happens In Vegas… – her father, Emilio, died suddenly from pneumonia, aged just 58.

Quotes

‘… it’s nobody’s business how much money I make. It’s so intrusive and rude. Who cares?’ (New York Daily News, 18 May 2004)

‘I went to clubs every weekend and guys were always trying to get me to go to bed with them. You get fed up with that attitude after a while and you just want to chat with your girlfriends and not deal with guys just looking for a quick lay.’ (Sunday Mirror, 23 July 2000)

‘My life is no different than anyone else’s life. Some days I have it all figured out, and some days I’m like, “What the hell is going on?”’ (Chicago Tribune, 8 December 2006)

‘Age is just a state of mind and I’m a 14-year-old boy!’ (News of the World,10 December 2006)

‘I find confidence sexy in a man, like real confidence, not a machismo kind of “fluffing of feather” confidence.’ (Total Film, 1 July 2007)