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Profile: Cameron Diaz

Born August 30, 1972 in San Diego, California, Cameron is a sucessful model and star actress. She is the daughter of a second-generation Cuban-American father, and a mother who is of Native American, Italian, and German decent. Cameron started modeling when she was 16 years old, and her successful modeling career took her to Japan, Australia, Morocco, and Paris. Her talent landed her in such magazines as Mademoiselle and Seventeen, and in advertising campaigns for such companies as Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola, and Levi's. In 1994, Cameron won her first film role in the blockbuster action-comedy "The Mask", starring rubber-faced comic Jim Carrey. With no previous acting experience, she originally auditioned for a supporting character in the film. Twelve callbacks later, however, she was hired to play Tina Carlyle, the female lead. After the success of "The Mask", Diaz was touted as the next big thing in Hollywood and was wooed by a number of prominent filmmakers to appear in their projects. While training to star in the live-action film version of the popular martial-arts video game "Mortal Kombat", Cameron sustained a wrist injury, which caused her to back out of the film. Instead, she made a string of smaller, independent films, including "The Last Supper" (1995); "Feeling Minnesota" (1996), co-starring Keanu Reeves; "She's the One" (1996), co-starring Ed Burns and Jennifer Aniston; and "Head Above Water" (1996), co-starring Harvey Keitel. In 1997, Cameron won rave reviews for her portrayal of a sweet bride-to-be opposite Julia Roberts in the playful comedy hit "My Best Friend's Wedding". Despite her undeniable box office appeal, Cameron continued to appear in relatively low-budget independent films, including "Very Bad Things", "Malkovich", and "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her". In the fall of 2000, she starred alongside Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu as one of the three female detectives at the heart of the hit big-screen remake of Aaron Spelling's "Charlie's Angels". Her upcoming projects include Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York", co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla Sky", co-starring Tom Cruise.