Cameron Diaz used a special Los Angeles screening of There's Something About Mary on Wednesday (01Oct08) to pay tribute to her late father, who made a cameo appearance in the comedy.

The actress laughed as she remembered her dad Emilio - who died from complications with pneumonia in April (08) - and his high-spirited performance in the 1998 movie.

She told the audience at the Arclight Cinema, "My daddy's in this movie for two seconds. My father just passed away recently.

He's the dude when Ben Stiller is leaving the jail and all the guys run afterwards. My dad has the long black-silver hair... who's hamming it up in the front.

"That's my dad, so would you all just say hi to him, because it's one of the few moments that we have of him immortalised on film." (c) WENN