A Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and SAG-Award nominated American actress and former model.
At the age of 21, she was working as a model when she auditioned for a big part in The Mask. Over the next 3 years, she honed her acting skills in such low budget independent films as The Last Supper; Feeling Minnesota; and Head Above Water. She returned to main stream films in My Best Friend's Wedding, in which she held her own against veteran actress Julia Roberts. She earned full fledged star status in 1998 for her performance in the box office smash There's Something About Mary.
During the 1999-2000 period, Diaz starred in many films, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, A Life Less Ordinary, Any Given Sunday, and the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels.
In 2001, she voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, and appeared in Shrek 2, In Her Shoes and The Holiday.
Diaz returned to the screen for Shrek the Third in 2007.
She will also appear in Shrek 4 and in the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, opposite Ashton Kutcher. She is also set to star in The Box, a horror thriller in 2008 co-starring James Marsden.
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