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Trivia
Birth name: Cameron Michelle Diaz
Date of birth: 30 August 1972
Place of birth: San Diego,
California, USA
Nickname: Cami
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the
"100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#13). [1995]
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the
"50 Most Beautiful" people in the world. [1998]
Started working as a model when was 16.
Has a reputation for being late.
Auditioned for the film Things to Do in
Denver When You're Dead (1995) but lost the role to Gabrielle Anwar.
Was set to play Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat
(1995) but broke her wrist prior to filming and was replaced by
Bridgette Wilson.
Got alcohol poisoning in Australia at age
18.
Very superstitious.
Father, Emilio Diaz, had a small role in
There's Something About Mary (1998) as a 'Jailbird'.
Graduated High School from Long Beach Poly
Class of 1990 in Long Beach California
Was a member of the Polyettes at Long Beach
Polytechnic High School, which was the school's dance team that
performed during half-time at football games.
Police caught an airline security guard at
Los Angeles International Airport stealing items from Diaz. Diaz
reported her passport and a large sum of cash missing. [December 1999]
Engaged to actor Jared Leto. [November 2000]
Auditioned for the film Waking the Dead
(2000/I) but lost the role to Jennifer Connelly.
Cameron's parents allowed the then-16-year
old to spend five years traveling the world to pursue her modeling
career beginning in Japan, where she was accompanied only by a 15 year
old fellow model.
Was discovered by a photographer at a
Hollywood party who, within a week, helped her land a contract with the
Elite Modeling Agency.
Lived with video producer Carlos De La Torre
for five years.
Her father is Cuban.
Will ONLY wash her face in Evian spring
water!
Became only the second actress to join the
coveted $20 Million Club (after Julia
Roberts), when she signed for that amount to do Charlie's Angels:
Full Throttle (2003) in January 2002.
Named by People Magazine as one of the the
"50 Most Beautiful People" in the world. [2002]
Has an older sister named Chimene.
Her mother, Billie, is of Native American,
Italian and German descent.
Voted the 11th "Sexiest Female Movie
Star" in the Australian Empire Magazine. [September 2002]
Measurements: 34B-23-36 (on set of The Mask
(1994)) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Broke off her engagment to Jared Leto.
30 August 2003 - Broke her nose in a surfing
accident in Hawaii on her birthday.
Photographer John Rutter was ordered to
stand trial for attempted extortion, attempted grand theft, perjury, and
forgery after trying to blackmail her with topless shots he had of her
from a 1992 shoot. [20 November 2003]
Voted as #8 on the" Top 100 Sexiest
Women" in FHM [DK]. [2004]
Ranked #3 in Stuff magazine's "102
Sexiest Women in the World." [2002]
During her interview on Inside The Actors
Studo, said that she doesn't read scripts and wishes movies were filmed
from start to finish because sometimes she doesn't understand them.
Her name is mentioned in the lyric of Brian
Wilson's 1998 song "South America".
Good friends with Drew
Barrymore and Lucy
Liu since Charlie's Angels (2000)
Is portrayed in Sofia Coppola's Lost in
Translation (2003) by Anna
Faris. Although Faris' movie character is named Kelly and Coppola
denied connections to Diaz in an Entertainment Weekly interview, the
similarities between Kelly and Diaz are obvious.
Lived with Matt Dillon for some years in the
90s
Named #11 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of
2005 list.
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