Cameron Diaz
American actress (born 1972)
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- broke her nose in a surfing accident in Hawaii on her birthday in 2003.
- Cameron Diaz broke her nose in a surfing accident in Hawaii on her birthday in 2003.
- Cameron Diaz, a self-proclaimed "technophoboic", said she doesn't know how to turn on a computer. "I think technology is a really terrifying thing," she told the Houston Chronicle, "and it is going to cause a lot of problems for our society, socially."
- Cameron Diaz's mega-curves in her first movie, The Mask, were courtesy of a $36 Frederick's of Hollywood padded bra.
- A heavy-metal fan, Cameron Diaz went to her first Van Halen concert as a teenager with her mother. "I banged my head quite a bit," she told Harper's Bazaar. "I liked everything from Iron Maiden to Ozzy to AC/DC."
- If she'd been a boy, Cameron Diaz said her parents would have named her Menachem El Genio or Sebastian Emilio. "Luckily, I was a girl," she told PEOPLE in 1994.
- Julia Roberts taught Cameron Diaz to knit on the set of their romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding.
- December 2007 - According to Forbes, for each dollar she got paid, Cameron Diaz's movies averaged $9 of gross income.
- Best friends with Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu since Charlie's Angels (2000). Both Drew and Cameron are huge fans of the rock group Ratt.
- Her name is mentioned in the lyric of Brian Wilson's 1998 song "South America".
- Robbie Williams mentions her in his song "I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen".
- Named #23 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
- Attended Jordan High School in North Long Beach, California.
- Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#13). (1995)
- Her father is Cuban. Her mother is Anglo with partial Cherokee ancestry.
- Voted the 11th "Sexiest Female Movie Star" in the Australian Empire Magazine. (September 2002)
- Ranked #19 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Named #13 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
- Named by People Magazine as one of the the "50 Most Beautiful People" in the world. (2002)
- 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.
- Christophe Gans originally wanted her to play the part of Cybil Bennett in Silent Hill (2006).
- Voted as #8 on the "Top 100 Sexiest Women" in FHM (DK). (2004)
- She graduated from Long Beach, California's Polytech High School (Class of 1990). As a member of that school's "Polyettes" dance-drill team, Cameron performed during half-time at football games.
- Ranked #1 in the "Worst Hollywood Signers 2006" list by "Autograph Collector" magazine (May 2006).