What's Not to Love About Cameron Diaz and Her Iconic Rom-Coms

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There is thing about Cameron Diaz. Especially now that she's coming retired of retirement!

Though the histrion stopped acting 8 (!!) years ago successful 2014, she's yet coming backmost to our screens acknowledgment to Netflix's Back successful Action. Literally, she's backmost successful action.

And we already cognize it'll be another enactment of creation connected her resume that's worthy celebrating. After all, implicit 2 decades, the ma to girl Raddix transformed into Lotte Schwartz successful 1999's Being John Malkovich, Natalie Cook successful the 2000's Charlie's Angels and voiced Fiona successful each of the Shrek movies. Truly, what can't she do? We don't know. 

And arsenic overmuch arsenic we loved her successful those iconic roles, we simply must highlight her illustrious romanticist drama history, successful which she has played characters who ranged from saccharine to spicy (and situation we adjacent accidental raunchy?) and made her co-stars look conscionable arsenic obsessed with her arsenic we ever are. 

The database of our favourite rom-coms our favourite heroine has starred successful seems endless, but we are going to springiness it our champion changeable and applaud them all.

So, successful grant of her 50th day Aug. 30, keep scrolling...

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1994: The Mask

At conscionable 21, Cameron Diaz made her acting debut successful the less-than-conventional romanticist comedy The Mask. She played Tina Carlyle, the emotion involvement of Jim Carrey's character Stanley Ipkiss, who besides had a bizarre disguise persona. This out-of-the-box flick enactment Diaz connected the way to superstardom.

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1996: She's The One

Focusing much connected the dynamics of brotherhood, She's The One follows brothers Mickey (Edward Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone). Mickey, a taxi driver, marries a pistillate helium had picked up conscionable a fewer days before. Meanwhile, Francis is disquieted astir being unfair to his mistress, Heather (Diaz), who is the ex-fiancée of Mickey. You could accidental it's complicated.

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1997: My Best Friend's Wedding

When Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) finds retired her champion person (Dermot Mulroney) is astir to wed Kim (Diaz), she has the abrupt realization that she wants to beryllium with him. And that tin lone mean 1 thing: drama. Despite each of Julianne's efforts, Kim seems to beryllium perfect—and successful the end, Julianne learns that sometimes friends aren't expected to beryllium thing much than conscionable friends.

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1998: There's Something About Mary

Mary (Diaz) has an allure that nary antheral successful this movie tin look to resist. So overmuch truthful that a pizza feline pretends to beryllium an English designer who needs crutches to get her attention. But tin you blasted them?

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2002: The Sweetest Thing

The Sweetest Thing may beryllium a romanticist comedy, but the emotion betwixt friends comes first. This raunchy movie follows Christina (Diaz) connected her quest for Mr. Right Now, not Mr. Right. Once she meets Peter, she changes her mindset and takes a roadworthy travel with her person Courtney (Christina Applegate) to find him. The duo acquisition maggots, glory holes and an iconic duet of the Piña Colada Song to lone find retired Peter is getting joined that day.

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2006: The Holiday

This 2006 classical is simply a Christmas favourite with a star-studded cast. Signing up to bash a location swap, Amanda (Diaz) and Iris (Kate Winslet) find emotion successful each other's homes. This movie is simply a must-watch erstwhile you privation to get into the vacation spirit.

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2008: What Happens successful Vegas

What happened successful Vegas doesn't enactment successful Vegas for the newlyweds Joy (Diaz) and Jack (Ashton Kutcher), who cannot hold connected who a 3 cardinal jackpot belongs to. Agreeing to effort to beryllium a existent joined mates for six months, they walk their clip scheming instead. But volition their forced proximity marque them autumn successful emotion contempt their devious tricks?

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2011: Bad Teacher

Dumped by her affluent fiancée, Ms. Halsey (Diaz) sets her sights connected substitute teacher Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), particularly erstwhile she finds retired helium comes from a affluent family. On a ngo to triumph a bonus to money a boob occupation to impressment him, she begins a rivalry with chap teacher Ms. Squirrel (Lucy Punch).

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2014: Sex Tape

Spicing up your emotion beingness tin pb to disaster. Just inquire Jay and Annie (Jason Segel and Diaz, respectively). When they recognize their enactment portion has been uploaded to iPads they person talented to friends, they spell connected a ngo to cod them back.

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2014: The Other Woman

What happens erstwhile 1 mistress meets the wife, and past different mistress? The movie The Other Woman. Carly (Diaz), Kate (Leslie Mann) and Amber (Kate Upton) signifier an improbable relationship to instrumentality down their shared, cheating spouse Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

A mentation of this communicative was archetypal published connected Monday, August 30, 2021 astatine 3 a.m. PT.

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