Keeping Out Of The Spotlight – These Hollywood Stars Walked Away

Published on February 24, 2020 By Leah Goldberg

9. Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz stepped onto the big screen in 1994’s The Mask, opposite Jim Carrey, as blonde bombshell Tina Carlyle. In 1997 she held her own against Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding. Hollywood didn’t really take her seriously, until she starred in 1999’s Being John Malkovich, a role which seriously downplayed her beauty and showed off her acting skills.

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In the years that followed, Cameron appeared in a number of box-office hits but hasn’t really been in the public’s eye of late. So, what has she been up to? In 2017, after the release of the movie Annie, Cameron stated that she was tired of all the traveling required for making films and confirmed in 2018 that she had retired from acting. Diaz is married to Benji Madden, backing vocalist for Good Charlotte, and their daughter, Raddix Madden, was born in December 2019.