Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and SAG-Award nominated American actress and former model. As of 2008, Forbes claims Diaz to have earned $50 million last year, after receiving this salary for What Happens in Vegas making her the highest paid actress and Hispanic in Hollywood.
Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and the late Emilio Diaz, who worked for UNOCAL a California oil company as a Field Gauger and in the pipeline department for twenty plus years until he retired in 1998.[5][6] Her father is a second-generation Cuban American and her mother is of English, German and Cherokee Native American ancestry.[7][8][9][10] She has one older sister, Chimene (born 1970). She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg.