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6 Celebrities You Probably Didn't Know Were Latina-Rita Hayworth, Cameron Diaz, Joan Baez

Left to right: Rita Hayworth, Cameron Diaz, Joan Baez (Armando Gallo/Retna Ltd.)

CAMERON DIAZ
The star of the Charlie’s Angels films and There’s Something About Mary has a little Cuban in her. Her father was Emilio Diaz, a second generation Cuban-American who worked as a foreman for an oil company in California. Diaz grew up in a non-Hispanic culture in Southern California, and never learned to speak Spanish fluently, though she can manage simple conversation.

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