A 21-year-old Diaz in her breakthrough role as Tina Carlyle enters a New York bank. And while the 1994 film The Mask starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz isn’t of the most appropriate title given these times we’re living in, its heroine and her red dress are the post-quarantine aspiration we all need this week.
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She fared far better when she appeared alongside Toni Collette in the 2005 family dramedy In Her Shoes, a movie that showed some of Diaz's best acting and range to date.If there ever were a time to revisit your favorite movies from that glorious decade known as the 90s, it’s now with Netflix offering up temporary escapism from the stale existence that is staying inside. The actress also tried to recreate the gross-out magic of There's Something About Mary, but failed to do so with 2002's critically panned The Sweetest Thing. In addition to her blockbusters, Diaz teamed up with acclaimed directors Cameron Crowe and Martin Scorsese to mixed results with 2001's Vanilla Sky (audiences didn't warm to it, but it earned Diaz her third Globe nomination) and 2002's Gangs of New York (a hit that earned Diaz her fourth-career Globe nod), respectively. The original Shrek was released in 2000, won an Oscar, and had three follow-ups (2004's Shrek 2, 2007's Shrek the Third, and 2010's Shrek Forever After) which comined all totaled over $1 billion in box office receipts. Diaz also lent her voice as Princess Fiona to the animated juggernaut that was the Shrek saga. In 2000 the big screen Charlie's Angels reboot was a girl power powerhouse that spawned a 2003 sequel that brought in a combined $350 million in the U.S. The early 2000s were, without question, the most successful of Diaz's career. As Roger Ebert marveled in his glowing review of the film, "Cameron Diaz, one of the best-looking women in movies, who here looks so dowdy we hardly recognize her Diaz has fun with her talent by taking it incognito to strange places and making it work for a living." (Diaz earned Golden Globe nominations for her performances in both Being John Malkovich and There's Something About Mary.) While she was a natural at comedy, it was Spike Jonze that opened a new portal to Diaz's talents beyond being goofy and giggly. But Diaz's most daring transformation happened in 1999 when she played the frizzy, frazzled Lotte in the Oscar-nominated mind-bender Being John Malkovich. Because thanks to one shocking hairdo in one seriously un-PC, but hilarious Farrelly Brothers comedy, everyone knew Diaz could hold her own.ĭiaz played the titular, fawned-over Mary in There's Something About Mary, an R-rated comedy that would earn $176 million at the box office and proved that the fearless Diaz was just as funny, if not funnier, than the guys dominating the comedy scene in the '90s like Ben Stiller. While Diaz mostly played sidekicks or love interests, sometimes with good results ( My Best Friend's Wedding), but mostly with not-so-good results ( Very Bad Things, Feeling Minnesota, A Life Less Ordinary) none of that mattered by 1998. The movie, which went on to earn $119 million at the box office, launched Diaz's career and made her a household name in the '90s. Diaz skyrocketed to breakout star status when she played Carrey's va-va-voom love interest in the manic comedy The Mask. But leave it to Cameron Diaz to upstage him at the absolute height of his fame. In anticipation The Other Woman, the comedy which Diaz stars alongside with Leslie Mann and Kate Upton and opens in theaters this Thursday, we look back at the evolution of her screen career. While there have been, of course, some misfires ( The Box, Knight and Day, among others), Diaz has kept things interesting, not only for herself, but for audiences and critics alike. The model-turned-actress has a career that has exceeded many expectations, one that has included multi-million dollar franchises ( Shrek, Charlie's Angels), critically-praised performances ( Being John Malkovich, In Her Shoes), raunchy comedy hits ( There's Something About Mary, Bad Teacher), eye-raising indies ( Vanilla Sky, The Counselor), mainstream rom-coms ( My Best Friend's Wedding, What To Expect When You're Expecting), and even a Best Picture nominee ( The Gangs of New York). This year alone she has three major projects on her docket: two comedies, including The Other Woman and Sex Tape, as well as the remake of the musical Annie. At 41-years-old, and exactly 20 years since she burst on to the scene in the smash comedy The Mask, Diaz is still sitting pretty on the A-list. With no major awards to her name (yet) and a career that's sometimes been overshadowed by her off-screen romances or her headline-grabbing quotes, it's unfortunately too easy to brush aside Cameron Diaz's impressive, long-lasting, and unique resume in Hollywood.
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