SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT CUBAN ARTISTS: CAMERON DÍAZ.
Cameron Díaz was born August 30, in San Diego, California as Cameron Michelle ‘Cami’ Diaz to Billie Joann (Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz, who worked for an oil company.
Her mother has English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry, and her father was from a Cuban family (of Spanish origin). Self-described as “adventurous, independent and a tough kid.”
Height 5′ 8½” (1.74 m)
Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when her agency secured her an audition for the female lead in The Mask (1994) opposite rising comedian Jim Carrey.
Despite having no previous acting experience, she got the role and was launched into stardom virtually overnight as the film became one of 1994’s biggest hits. Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, she turned down subsequent high-profile roles and spent the next 3 years honing her acting skills in such character-driven independent films as The Last Supper (1995); Feeling Minnesota (1996); and Head Above Water (1996).
She returned to main stream films in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), where she held her own against Julia Roberts. By 1998, she’d earned full fledged star status for her performance in the box office smash There’s Something About Mary (1998).
With her name near the top on virtually every list of Hollywood’s sexiest actresses, and firmly established as one of filmdom’s hottest properties and most sought after actresses, Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.
Diaz has had long-term relationships with video producer Carlos de la Torre, actor Matt Dillon, actor/singer Jared Leto, singer/actor Justin Timberlake, and New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez. She married musician Benji Madden at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2015, after a 17-day engagement, having been introduced seven months earlier by her close friend and now sister-in-law, Nicole Richie. The marriage came as a reversal for Diaz, who had previously referred to the custom as a “dying institution” that doesn’t “suit our world any longer”.
As of 2010, Diaz lives in Los Angeles, California.
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