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Cameron Diaz was working as a model when she was asked to audition for The Mask, a film that transformed the 21-year-old Californian into an instant star. She has since forged an intriguing path with her career, balancing big-budget extravaganzas (Charlie’s Angels, There’s Something About Mary) with oddball independent films (Being John Malkovich, Feeling Minnesota). She’s currently dating pop singer .
With only one film in release, 2005 was a slower year than we’ve come to expect from Cameron. In Her Shoes, based on the novel by Jennifer Weiner, cast Cameron as a self-loathing party girl opposite Shirley MacLaine and Toni Collette and garnered the actress some of the best notices of her career. She was all over the small screen with appearances on talk shows like The Daily Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and even popped up on an episode of Inside The Actors Studio, where she revealed that her favorite word is “unity.” Sure.
Expect to see even less of Cameron in 2006, as the actress currently has only one film scheduled for release. Holiday, written and directed by Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want), revolves around an American (played by Diaz) who befriends a British woman () while on vacation in the United Kingdom. Cameron is also hard at work on the next installment of the Shrek series, along with Mike Myers and .