Cameron Diaz Net Worth

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Cameron Diaz Net Worth, How did the American model and actress attain her wealth? Find out more interesting facts about Cameron Diaz Net Worth and her career.

Cameron Diaz Early life 

Cameron Diaz is a California-born model and actress. She first rose to fame in 1994 after appearing in ‘The Mask’. She has maintained an A-list presence ever since, appearing in dozens of movies and earning hundreds of millions of dollars from acting salaries alone.

She has characterized her upbringing as frugal. Her family collected soda cans to turn in for extra money because that $20 meant something to them.

Cameron got married to Good Charlotte founder Benji Madden in 2015. They were introduced by Nicole Richie who has been married to Benji’s brother Joel in 2010.

She signed with Elite Model Management at 16 and quickly began modeling professionally.

Cameron Diaz Career

Cameron Michelle Diaz was born in San Diego, California U.S. on August 30, 1972. She was raised in Long Beach, California, and she attended Long Beach Polytechnic where she was classmates with Snoop Dogg.

During her first five years of modeling, she landed many high-profile fashion campaigns and print work while living abroad in places such as Japan, Australia and Paris.

At age 21, Diaz returned home to Southern California and, despite having no acting experience, auditioned for and won the female lead role opposite Jim Carrey in the 1994 film ‘The Mask’. She took her first acting class after landing the role which was a huge hit, grossing more than $340 million worldwide, and turned Cameron into an instant star.

More film work rolled in over the next few years including 1997’s ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. A year later, Cameron’s career would jump yet another level after she starred in the titular role in the comedy, there’s Something About Mary. That movie grossed $369 million worldwide and garnered Diaz her first Golden Globe nomination. 

Further award nominations shortly followed for her role in ‘Being John Malkovich’, which was an instantaneous critical success. Diaz was featured in other successful films, such as ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (grossing $264 million worldwide), ‘Vanilla Sky’, for which Diaz also received four prestigious award nominations, and the Academy Award-winning film ‘Gangs of New York’.

Other Diaz films include ‘In Her Shoes’, ‘The Holiday’, ‘What Happens in Vegas’, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’, ‘Knight and Day’, ‘The Green Hornet’, ‘Bad Teacher’, ‘Sex Tape’, ‘Annie’, and more. She provided the voice of Princess Fiona in Shrek franchise, with the second film ‘Shrek 2’, grossing $919 million worldwide.

Diaz received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009. She stopped acting in 2014 and – so far – has stuck to that announcement. She has not appeared in a film or television project since the December 2014 release of ‘Annie’.

Cameron Diaz Net Worth 

Cameron Diaz Net Worth as of today is $140 Million. Cameron Diaz Net Worth was acquired from her career as an actress and model.

However, for the first ‘Shrek’ movie, she earned $3 million and for the 2004 sequel, she earned $10 million. With total box office ticket sales north of $7 billion, Cameron is currently the fifth highest-grossing U.S. actresses. 

During the peak of her career, 1998 to 2011, Cameron earned more than $160 million from base film salaries, while her minimum salary is $10 million for a starring role, and that number has reached as high as $20 million. She earned $2 million for ‘There’s Something About Mary’. 

She earned $12 million for ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and then $20 million for the sequel ‘Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle’. She was the third actress in history to crack the $20 million movie paycheck milestone. She earned $17.5 million for ‘Gangs of New York 

For 2011’s ‘Bad Teacher’, Cameron took a massive pay cut – $1 million up front – in exchange for a lucrative percentage of the film’s backend gross. 

The movie went on to earn more than $210 million worldwide and when it was all said and done, Cameron walked away with $42 million. That’s enough to be one of the 20 highest single-film paychecks ever earned by an actor.

Cameron owns and has owned a number of impressive properties around the US, primarily in New York and California. In 2001, she spent $1.34 million for a home above the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. 

She still owns this property but her primary residence is a much larger Beverly Hills compound that she picked up in 2010 for $9.5 million from fellow actress Candice Bergen. Nicole and Joel live a few houses down the block in a home that Nicole purchased for $6.7 million in 2015.

In New York, Cameron for many years owned a loft in Greenwich Village which she sold in 2015 for $4 million. But don’t worry, Cameron still has a place to rest her head in NYC thanks to the $9.3 million condo she picked up in 2013 in the Chelsea neighborhood.

Summary: 

Cameron Michelle Diaz is a California-born model and actress who rose to fame in 1994 after appearing in ‘The Mask’.

She has maintained an A-list presence ever since, appearing in dozens of movies and earning hundreds of millions of dollars from acting salaries alone.

As of 2020, Cameron Diaz’s net worth is $140 Million.