All About Cameron Diaz’s Parents, Mom Billie and Late Dad Emilio [Video]

Cameron Diaz‘s parents — Emilio and Billie Diaz — raised her in Long Beach, Calif., not too far from Hollywood, which she would eventually take by storm.

The There’s Something About Mary star’s father was Spanish-Cuban, and her mother is German-English. “I’m a true American because I’m a mutt,” Cameron said about her ancestry during an October 2020 interview on No Filter with Naomi.

Emilio and Billie were working-class parents, and they raised Cameron and her sister, Chimene Diaz, in a loving home. “I was really fortunate,” Cameron shared in the 2015 documentary, Human, calling the education she got from her dad and mom “really amazing.” She added, “They just gave us everything. There wasn’t a moment when my parents weren’t teaching us.”

Emilio tragically died from a severe case of pneumonia at 58 on April 15, 2008. In Human, the Back in Actionstar reflected on the sudden loss of …