Cameron Diaz

Contents:

1. Introduction…………………3

2. The aim of Project Work…………….4

3. The Project Work “Cameron Diaz”………….5

a) Who’s Cameron Diaz?…………..5

b) Career………………….5

c) Her projects……………….8

d) Leisure time………………8

e) Love…………………9

f) Extraordinary facts……………..9

g) Did you know?……………..10

h) Interwiew with Cameron………….10

I) 100 degrees wins CSOTD award……….11

j) Awarded Veronica’s Choice Award………11

k) Something About Mary Video $90+……….11

l) Cameron a hit at New York Film Critics Circle Awards.12

m) MTV’s Fanatic Features 100 Degrees……..12

n) Cameron co-stars in “Very Bad Things”…….12

o) POLL: Cameron for Presidential Aide………12

p) Cameron DDiaz & Peter Makebisch an Item?……12

r) Cameron Diaz to Host Season Premiere of SNL….13

s) 100 Degrees Awarded Coolsite…………13

t) Cameron Diaz Caught Frolicking Topless……..13

u) 100 Degrees Cameron Diaz, Debuts on Internet….13

4. Conclusions…………………14

Introduction:

CAMERON DIAZ is the most luminescent newcomer to silver screen in the 1990’s. At age 21 and only with her modeling experience under the hood, Diaz landed a potentially sky-rocketing role opposite rising superstar comedian Jim Carrey in The Mask. With her foot well in tthe door of Hollywood films, she was next afforded the chance to kick Hollywood ass in the feature film version of Mortal Kombat. For this role, Diaz would require martial arts training. But luck would send Diaz down a different rroad after she injured her wrist karate-chopping her trainer’s head. Diaz instead returned to some high-paying modeling jobs and found smaller, low-paying roles in independent films. Cameron states, „I think that definitely your chances of coming across material in independent films–material that is more interesting and more challenging–is more likely than in big-studio films. You always have to leave your doors open to independent films so you have that opportunity.“

The Aim of the Project Work

In the world there are a lot of good, beautiful, clever and talented actors. Some of them are very famous in all over the world, but some are not well known for people. Although they are very good actors like others.

I like aa lot of actors. But I have my favourite ones. One of them is Cameron Diaz. One time I saw her in magazine. There she was so beautiful and I began read everything about her. Now I have all kind of stuff about my favourite actress Cameron Diaz!

Some other actors that I like very much are Jenifer Aniston, Brad Pitt.

But when I get a task ( to do a project about one of favourite actors) I decide to write aabout Cameron Diaz, not about for example jenifer aniston. I do not know why, maybe I like her more then others actors. Because I wante to know something new about this actress.

I think that it will be good for my teacher and my classfriends because they will scent out o lot of interesting things about Cameron Diaz. Being not so famous like Jenifer Aniston or Bradd Pitt.

I’m very happy that I decided to write about her!

Cameron Diaz

Who’s Cameron Diaz?

So how did this „wonder“ come to grace the planet Earth? The facts go like this: Daughter of a Cuban-American father and German-native American mother, Cameron was born some 25 (on August 30 1972) years ago and grew up in Long Beach, California. (She says her father planned on naming her Menachem El Genio or Seb Emilo, but gave up the plan when he realized he had a baby girl on his hands.)

Needless to say, she was a cute kid and an even cuter teenager. It wasn’t until she was the ripe old age of 16, however, before she was plucked from a Hollywood party and firmly planted on the road to fame. <

She started as a successful fashion model when she was 16. Having a contract with the Elite Modeling Agency, she posed for such magazines

as Mademoiselle and Seventeen, and appeared in

ads for Calvin Klein, Levi’s, and Coca-Cola.

But after 6 years she changed to an actress when

she discovered that acting was even more fun than

traveling, well paid around the world.

Career

Her patience and discipline in her acting career

shows how Cameron had matured through her

modeling career. Diaz was sixteen at the time, and

she happened to be at the right place at the right

time. at a Hollywood party! There she hooked up with a photographer who, within a week, helped her land a modeling contract with the Elite Modeling Agency. She talked her father (a Cuban-American foreman) and her mother (a German, Native American, and English broker) into letting her expand her career in Japan, accompanied only by another fifteen-year-old fellow model. Her parents were rather easy-going, taking their head-banging party-going kid everywhere. „I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.“ Her mother even accompanied hher to first Van Halen concert. So in the end, Cameron was off to Japan. Diaz advises, „Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.“ So the next five years were spent traveling from continent to continent, country to country. „Australia, Morocco, Paris, Mexico, here, there, everywhere,“ before settling in her Hollywood apartment with Carlos de La Torre, a video producer and her companion for five years.

Posing for Mademoiselle and Seventeen and appearing in ads for Calvin Klein, Levi’s, and Coca Cola is no small accomplishment for a 21-year-old woman. Just barely a woman, Cameron felt modeling angst. There was more to her life, and she knew it. As a suggestion from her agent, Diaz tried going down the well-traveled road of modeling to acting. Who would believe after twelve auditions, this fresh actress–born from modeling–would land a small role in Jim Carrey’s film, The Mask? Cameron wanted in, and she had the perfect opportunity. „Anything the filmmakers wanted, I would do. But it got to the point where I said, ‘You know what? I’m not doing it anymore. 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.’“ Director Charles Russell caught wind of Cameron’s feelings and went to the producers at New Line Cinema, and convinced them to award her the female lead. At the time, Cameron didn’t fully understand the scope of what she was getting into. „This is kind of a big film, isn’t it?“ Diaz asked a month into production. Yes, iit was! She got ulcer. Cameron then realized the heavy weight on her shoulders, the responsibility for the success of the film

The studios weren’t too confident or keen in hiring Cameron after the ulcer during Mask production and her injury during Kombat pre-production. So Diaz trotted down the road of independent films, scoring several roles. She played a character named Jude in The Last Supper (1995), directed by Stacy Title. „I did the Last Supper simply to get the oopportunity to work with other actors. I never had any other experience acting other than The Mask.“ It was during this year (1995) that Cameron ended her longstanding, 5-year relationship with Carlos de La Torre. In Feeling Minnesota (1996), she rruns off with her brother-in-law (Keanu Reeves). In She’s the One (1996), Cameron sleeps with bros. Ed Burns and Mike McGlone. Strangely, many of Cameron’s acting roles involved playing vulnerable females, often tied-up; Cameron also displays her well-shaped body in these movies with swimsuits and several swimming scenes. As the wife of a prominent judge (Harvey Keitel) more than twice her age, she finds herself in a terrible mess after discovering a dead body in Head Above Water (1996). That same year, Cameron was named the N.A.T.O./ShowWest Female Star of Tomorrow by the National Association of Theater Owners. She now had several films under her belt, award recognition, and a small following of fans.

Returning to the big-studio films, Cameron’s task wwas to star side-by-side with Hollywood cutie Julia Roberts who was also making somewhat of a return in My Best Friend’s Wedding. The summer romantic comedy scored well among critics, not to mention Cameron’s performance aside Julia. Cameron then went on to A Live Less Ordinary by Danny Boyle with kidnapper Ewan McGregor. Cameron recently starred in the Faralley brothers’ There’s Something About Mary with her ex-beau and costar Matt Dillon. This box-office smash earned Cameron her biggest Hollywood boost yyet. She followed her comedy shasher with an independent film Very Bad Things (1998) as Laura Garrety. Cameron Diaz’s upcoming films include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) as a blonde TV reporter, and On Any given Sunday (1999).

Shrek (2000) (voice)

Her first stint in the glamour industry involved working the runways as an Elite model, during which time she earned a „comfortable, if not hugely successful living“ (poor thing probably made under seven figures). Some five years later, the rocket ship took off when she landed the part of Tina Carlyle in The Mask. The movie sent Jim Carrey’s eyes popping out of their sockets, while many members of the audience experienced a similar phenomenon, albeit one related with a body part situated a good deal lower on the anatomy.

Mask, as we all know was a phenomenal success, as was My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), in which Cameron, in the role of crowd-shy Kimi, managed to steal Julia Roberts’ one true love – an accomplishment that would have been unthinkable if not for the fact that Diaz is so incredibly stunning she could probably steal the moon from the sky should she so desire.

At tthis point Cameron’s acting skills and breathtaking beauty has been well recognized by the press and public alike. Film critic Rogert Ebert has given her a solid thumbs up, labeling her „a genuine sex bomb with a gorgeous face“ (Roger doesn’t get the big bucks for nothing.)

Instead of earlier reports on this page, Bill Murray does play Charlie in the new Columbia Pictures movie Charlie’s Angels. And as proven in many other movies, no movie can not be funny without this former Saturdaynight Live comedy-star. The Angels Cameron Diaz, Lucy Alexis Liu and Drew Barrymore are ready to crime-fight international espionage using intelligent disguises, powerful schemes and their famous high-kicks. I saw it all happen in a fantastic trailer on apple.com. I sincerely advise you to check it out. I also found a teaser. Now all we have to wait for is the movie itself.

Her projects

On Any Given Sunday (1999)

There’s Something About Mary (1998)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Being John Malkovich (1998)

Very Bad Things (1998)

Life Less Ordinary, A (1997)

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

Keys to Tulsa (1997)

Head Above Water (1996)

Feeling Minnesota (1996)

She’s the One (1996)

Last Supper, The (1995)

Mask, The (1994)

Vanilla Sky (2001)

Leisure time

Party time. Cameron loves to party. Going out, dancing and laughing is what she likes most to do with her boy friend Jared Leto. She has a mind of her own and does not hesitate to speak it. For Cameron exciting means car racing at 100 m/h. And for the sex: „real loud music and plenty of action. I don’t like soft“.

Cameron Diaz must be a cheap date. She loves French fries and Egg McMuffins, and is a self-confessed „burger whore.“ One can’t help but wonder, however, after witnessing her exquisite five-foot-nine frame, if she isn’t being a tad disingenuous. Although she claims to flinch at the mention of the word „salad,“ I suspect there’s probably a decent flow of health food being pumped into the immaculate wonder that is Cameron Diaz.

Love

It is said that she’s a real heartbreaker. She’s now dating Jared Leto (actor). Her last relationship with Matt Dillon lasted for two years. As far as we know, Cameron broke up because Matt was foolin’ around with Mariah Carey. Altough they looked very happy at the start, now Cameron wishes she never met him.

Before Dillon there was video producer Carlos de La

Torre; their relationship held strong for five years.

Further more my resources do tell me that she is really beautiful even without the make-up, but that she also has a very weird laugh. It seems to be a mixture between Beavis&Butthead and a air-raid-alarm. About her beauty she claims that her mother and two of her friends are more prettier than she (how modest). And what about drugs? She’s very liberal on this subject: „It’s all a matter of personal choice aand everybody reacts different on it. I haven’t tried everything and I would never start with heroine, but a good joint or XTC-pill can’t hurt.“ (VARA Magazine 1997/43)

Extraordinary facts

More extraordinary facts: She hates Mariah Carey music (probably even more after the Dillon-affair.) and finds her self lazy enough to stay in bed all day. She almost died of alcohol-poisoning in Australia when she was a model and she loves Japan. So far she hasn’t shown any affection for aa singing career (thank God, after you’ve seen „My best friends wedding“). Since „She’s the one“ she started to change ...