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Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American
film actress. She is the star of a new MTV show called
"Trippin'".
Diaz was born and raised in San Diego, California. Her
father is from Cuba. After pursuing a modelling 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 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 into 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.
In March of 2005, Diaz was discovered unconscious and
bleeding from the head by Justin Timberlake. She was rushed
to the hospital where she received 19 stitches. Diaz was
reportedly standing atop a chest of drawers to reach the
top of a wardrobe when she slipped. Diaz was diagnosed
with back strain, which presumably resulted in a momentary
loss of her ability to move when she fell.
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