Charlize Theron
Known for: Acting
Born: August 6, 1975 in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZ THERR-ən; Afrikaans: [ʃarˈlis ˈtrɔn]; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018) and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), for which she received her third Academy Award nomination. Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlize Theron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Fast X
Cipher
Monster
Aileen Wuornos
Reindeer Games
Ashley Mercer
The Cider House Rules
Candy Kendall
The Devil's Advocate
Mary Ann Lomax
Angels in Exile
Narrator
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Britt Ekland
Sweet November
Sara Deever
15 Minutes
Rose Hearn
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Laura Kensington
The Astronaut's Wife
Jillian Armacost
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Adele Invergordon
Waking Up in Reno
Candy Kirkendall
The Road
Mother
In the Valley of Elah
Detective Emily Sanders
Æon Flux
Æon Flux
Men of Honor
Gwen Sunday
Hancock
Mary
Trapped
Karen
Celebrity
Supermodel
That Thing You Do!
Tina
Mighty Joe Young
Jill Young
The Italian Job
Stella Bridger
2 Days in the Valley
Helga Svelgen