Flaxen-haired beauty Cameron Diaz first wowed us nearly a decade ago as the voluptuous bombshell who held her own opposite Jim Carrey in 1994’s The Mask, but the tall, lanky actress with the generous mouth and cornflower-blue eyes has proven she’s just as game to play ugly (Being John Malkovich) as she is to play beautiful (Charlie’s Angels) as she is to play just plain slapsticky (There’s Something About Mary).
Nearly a decade (and cool $20 mil per movie) later, it’s that combination of beauty, down-to-earth good-naturedness and comic timing that have kept us watching her on the big screen, while her whimsical personal style has kept moviegoers, stylewatchers and fashionista wannabes alike watching her off it.
From her sweet ingenue air of the early and mid 1990s, to her disco diva getups of Charlie’s Angels in 2000 to her glammed-up hippie chic at this year’s Oscars, Diaz isn’t afraid to buck tradition and let her individual taste will out. She can go high style, she can go retro, she can go trendy…hell, she can go in jeans, and we’ll still be caught asking ourselves, “How does she do it?”
Back in 1996 Diaz told Rolling Stone, “Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.” Well, that was then–this is now. Take a look back with us at the many looks of Ms. Diaz by clicking the link below.
