Cameroon Diaz

Born in San Diego, CA, on August 30, 1972, Diaz left school at 16 to become a model. For the next five years, she traveled the globe, working in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris.
As a model for the Elite Agency, she did commercial work for such products as Coke, Nivea, and L.A. Gear.
She returned to California at the age of 21 and was unknown in the film industry when cast in her breakthrough role as the target of Jim Carrey’s hyper-animated lust in The Mask.
Following the hoopla surrounding her performance — or, more specifically, her physical appearance — in the film, Diaz opted to take acting lessons and appear in a series of small, independent films, including The Last Supper (1995), She’s the One (1996), and Feeling Minnesota (1996).
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 the 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 road 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.

Filmography

•Shrek (2000) (voice)
•Any Given Sunday (1999) …. Manager
… aka The League (1998) (USA: working title)
… aka Any Given Sunday (1998) (USA: working title)
… aka Gridiron (1998) (USA: working title)
… aka Monday Night (1998) (USA: working title)
… aka On Any Given Sunday (1998) (USA: working title)
… aka Playing Hurt (1998) (USA: working title)

•Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) …. Blonde TV Reporter
•Being John Malkovich (1998) …. Lotte Schwartz
•Very Bad Things (1998) …. Laura Garrety
•There’s Something About Mary (1998) …. Mary Jensen Matthews
•Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) …. Celine
•My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) …. Kimmy Wallace
•Keys to Tulsa (1997) …. Trudy
•Head Above Water (1996) …. Nathalie
•Feeling Minnesota (1996) …. Freddie
•She’s the One (1996) …. Heather
•Last Supper, The (1995) …. Jude
•Mask, The (1994) …. Tina Carlyl