The Mask is on ITV tonight and reminds us why we love the gorgeous and funny actress so much. A film about cursed mask actually introduced the world to one of the most beautiful faces in Hollywood.
Since then, Diaz has dazzled in films from Charlie’s Angels and There’s Something About Mary to the outrageous Sex Tape.
We look at her raunchiest roles on the big screen.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT
Sex Tape really is, as the name suggests, a film about making a sex tape.
Diaz and Segel play a foolish couple who make the explicit home movie to liven up their marriage but it goes missing.
Unusually for Hollywood, it’s not their fault. After all, entire celebrity careers have been launched in exactly this way…
Diaz displayed her ability to be red hot, hilarious and utterly unlike any other female sex symbol in 2002’s all-girl comedy The Sweetest Thing.
Alongside Selma Blair and Christina Applegate, she played a gorgeous girl who doesn’t play by any of the girlish rules.
From a provocative scene masturbating to simulating oral sex for a passing biker, it is one of her moss outrageous roles.
More all-girl action in the two Charlie’s Angels movies with Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
Diaz spent much of the time flaunting her killer curves and even strips on stage in one memorable sequence. She was almost upstaged, however, by Demi Moore’s big screen comeback in the second movie, Full Throttle.
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Many teenagers probably wished they had a schoolmistress like Diaz.
Her shocking turn in 2011’s Bad Teacher with Justin Timberlake may not have raised educational standards anywhere, but she showed how to raise buckets of cash in the memorable car-wash scene.
The blonde bombshell also rasied temperatures in the panned Ridley Scott 2013 thriller The Counselor, when she provoked and teased a noticably flushed Penelope Cruz after a naked swim.
It is fitting to end with her iconic role in There’s Something About Mary, her ultimate fusion of raunchy and ridiculous.
Diaz made cinema history in 1998 with the legendary scene where she styles her hair with a very unfortunate substance.
She also demonstrated how to drive a peeping Tom crazy with ease.
This is one star who is always willing to face anything head on, no mask required.