Cameron Diaz made her feature film debut at age 21, captivating moviegoers as femme fatale Tina Carlyle in The Mask. In addition to becoming one of Jim Carrey’s biggest hits, The Mask gained distinction as the film that launched Cameron Diaz’s career in motion pictures.
As a follow-up to The Mask, Cameron chose a small, independent film called The Last Supper with a first-time feature director. The black comedy, released by Sony Pictures Entertainment, gave Cameron the chance to play a condescending, liberal graduate student amongst a talented ensemble cast that included Annabeth Gish, Ron Eldard, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance. An art house hit, The Last Supper was the beginning of two years of non-stop work in feature films.
Her third feature was writer/director Steven Baigelman’s offbeat love story, Feeling Minnesota, in which Cameron co-starred with Keanu Reeves and Vincent D’Onofrio, playing a white trash bride who falls in love with her brother-in-law. She went on to play a cold, manipulative New Yorker in Edward Burns’ eagerly-anticipated follow-up to his critically-acclaimed The Brothers McMullen, a working-class romantic comedy called She’s the One, which, once again, Burns wrote, directed and starred in. Next, she starred opposite Harvey Keitel and Craig Sheffer in Head Above Water, a thriller about a respectable judge, his wife, her ex-lover, their neighbor and a dead body that won’t go away.
In 1996, Cameron was named ShoWest’s Female Star of Tomorrow by the National Association of Theatre Owners (a title previously held by such actresses as Winona Ryder, Nicole Kidman and Julia Ormond). Cameron’s first studio film since The Mask, My Best Friend’s Wedding became one of the biggest hits of the summer of 1997 and one of the 10 top-grossing films of the year.
Starring opposite Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney and Rupert Everett as a sweet debutante on the eve of her nuptials, My Best Friend’s Wedding gave Cameron an opportunity to show yet another side of her many talents, capturing the hearts of critics and moviegoers in the process. Her performance earned her the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress in a Comedy, voted on by more than 11 million customers of Blockbuster Video internationally.
In A Life Less Ordinary -- from yet another talented young filmmaker, director Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire fame -- Cameron starred opposite Ewan McGregor, playing a spoiled, unhappy rich girl who falls in love with the janitor who accidentally kidnaps her.
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July 02, 2010
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise has achieved extraordinary success as an actor, producer, and philanthropist in a career spanning over two decades. He is a three-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Golden Globe Award winner whose films have earned in excess of six billion dollars worldwide—an incomparable accomplishment.
In the 28 years since becoming an actor, Cruise’s versatility is evidenced by the varied films and roles he chooses. He has made 37 films and has worked with a remarkable list of acclaimed film directors, including Francis Ford Coppola. Paul Brickman, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Sydney Pollack, Neil Jordan, Brian de Palma, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Woo, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, J.J. Abrams, Robert Redford, Bryan Singer and most recently James Mangold.
Cruise will next be seen starring with Cameron Diaz in the romantic-action-comedy Knight and Day, opening June 25, 2010. This summer he will begin shooting Mission: Impossible IV. This franchise has grossed over two billion dollars worldwide since Cruise began producing the films at Paramount, and starring as the legendary spy Ethan Hunt. Mission: Impossible was Paramount’s highest grossing film of 1996. Cruise is producing Mission: Impossible IV with J.J. Abrams.
In 2008, Cruise played German officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the critically acclaimed, worldwide hit Valkyrie, the historical thriller about the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler during World War II. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film grossed nearly $200 million internationally, making it the fifth highest grossing WWII-set film. Cruise also appeared in Ben Stiller’s comedy smash Tropic Thunder as the hip hopping foul-mouthed Hollywood movie mogul Les Grossman.
In the 28 years since becoming an actor, Cruise’s versatility is evidenced by the varied films and roles he chooses. He has made 37 films and has worked with a remarkable list of acclaimed film directors, including Francis Ford Coppola. Paul Brickman, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Sydney Pollack, Neil Jordan, Brian de Palma, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Woo, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, J.J. Abrams, Robert Redford, Bryan Singer and most recently James Mangold.
Cruise will next be seen starring with Cameron Diaz in the romantic-action-comedy Knight and Day, opening June 25, 2010. This summer he will begin shooting Mission: Impossible IV. This franchise has grossed over two billion dollars worldwide since Cruise began producing the films at Paramount, and starring as the legendary spy Ethan Hunt. Mission: Impossible was Paramount’s highest grossing film of 1996. Cruise is producing Mission: Impossible IV with J.J. Abrams.
In 2008, Cruise played German officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the critically acclaimed, worldwide hit Valkyrie, the historical thriller about the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler during World War II. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film grossed nearly $200 million internationally, making it the fifth highest grossing WWII-set film. Cruise also appeared in Ben Stiller’s comedy smash Tropic Thunder as the hip hopping foul-mouthed Hollywood movie mogul Les Grossman.
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