Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer.
66 Facts About Charlize Theron
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Charlize Theron received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar.
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Charlize Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job, Hancock, Snow White and the Huntsman, Prometheus, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Fate of the Furious, Atomic Blonde, The Old Guard and F9.
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Charlize Theron received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult and Tully, and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell, receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the lattermost.
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Since the early 2000s, Charlize Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions.
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Charlize Theron has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain, Dark Places, and Long Shot.
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Charlize Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship.
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Charlize Theron has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, in Transvaal Province of South Africa on 7 August 1975.
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Charlize Theron is the only child of road constructionists Gerda and Charles Theron.
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The Second Boer War military leader Danie Charlize Theron was her great-grand-uncle.
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Charlize Theron is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German.
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Charlize Theron grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg.
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Charlize Theron's mother retrieved her own handgun, shot back and killed him.
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Charlize Theron attended Putfontein Primary School, a period during which she has said she was not "fitting in".
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Charlize Theron was frequently unwell with jaundice throughout childhood and the antibiotics she was administered made her upper incisor milk teeth rot and teeth did not grow until she was roughly ten years old.
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At 13, Charlize Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg.
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In 1994, Charlize Theron flew to Los Angeles, on a one-way ticket her mother bought for her, intending to work in the film industry.
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Charlize Theron argued and pleaded with the bank teller until talent agent John Crosby, who was the next customer behind her, cashed it for her and gave her his business card.
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Charlize Theron's first speaking role was Helga Svelgen the hitwoman in 2 Days in the Valley, but despite the film's mixed reviews, attention drew to Theron due to her beauty and the scene where she fought Teri Hatcher's character.
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Charlize Theron recalled being surprised at how much faith Harris had in her potential and referred to Harris as her mentor.
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Charlize Theron would be Theron's agent for over 15 years until Harris's death.
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Charlize Theron subsequently starred in the adventure film Mighty Joe Young as the friend and protector of a giant mountain gorilla, and in the drama The Cider House Rules, as a woman who seeks an abortion in World War II-era Maine.
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Charlize Theron was on the cover of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus".
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In Monster, Charlize Theron portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men in the late 1980s and early 1990s; film critic Roger Ebert felt that Charlize Theron gave "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema".
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Charlize Theron is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
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On 30 September 2005, Charlize Theron received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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In 2007, Charlize Theron played a police detective in the critically acclaimed crime film In the Valley of Elah, and produced and starred as a reckless, slatternly mother in the drama film Sleepwalking, alongside Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb.
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The Christian Science Monitor praised the latter film, commenting that "Despite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen time allotted to Charlize Theron, Sleepwalking has a core of feeling".
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In 2008, Charlize Theron starred as a woman who faced a traumatic childhood in the drama The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga and opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger, and played the ex-wife of an alcoholic superhero alongside Will Smith in the superhero film Hancock.
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Also in 2008, Charlize Theron was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year, and was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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On 4 December 2009, Charlize Theron co-presented the draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of South African nationality or ancestry.
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Richard Roeper awarded the film an A grade, stating "Charlize Theron delivers one of the most impressive performances of the year".
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Charlize Theron was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and several other awards.
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In 2019, Charlize Theron spoke about her method of working on roles.
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In 2012, Charlize Theron took on the role of villain in two big-budgeted films.
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Charlize Theron played Evil Queen Ravenna, Snow White's evil stepmother, in Snow White and the Huntsman, opposite Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, and appeared as a crew member with a hidden agenda in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
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On 10 May 2014, Charlize Theron hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC.
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In 2015, Charlize Theron played the sole survivor of the massacre of her family in the film adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel Dark Places, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, in which she had a producer credit, and starred as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, opposite Tom Hardy.
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Charlize Theron next reprised her role as Queen Ravenna in the 2016 film The Huntsman: Winter's War, a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, which was a critical and commercial failure.
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In 2016, Charlize Theron starred as a physician and activist working in West Africa in the little-seen romantic drama The Last Face, with Sean Penn, provided her voice for the 3D stop-motion fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings, and produced the independent drama Brain on Fire.
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In 2017, Charlize Theron starred in The Fate of the Furious as the cyberterrorist Cipher, the main antagonist of the entire franchise, and played a spy on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in Atomic Blonde, an adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City, directed by David Leitch.
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Charlize Theron played the president of a pharmaceutical in the crime film Gringo and produced the biographical war drama film A Private War, both released in 2018.
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In 2019, Charlize Theron produced and starred in the romantic comedy film Long Shot, opposite Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, portraying a US Secretary of State who reconnects with a journalist she used to babysit.
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Charlize Theron next starred as Megyn Kelly in the drama Bombshell, which she co-produced.
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Charlize Theron played Lady Lesso in the fantasy Netflix film The School for Good and Evil.
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In 2008, Charlize Theron was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
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Charlize Theron is a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended a march and rally to support that in Fresno, California, on 30 May 2009.
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Charlize Theron further elaborated on her stance in a June 2011 interview on Piers Morgan Tonight.
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Charlize Theron was an honoured guest along with Halle Berry and keynote speaker James Cameron.
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In 2015, Charlize Theron signed an open letter which One Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.
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Since 2008, Charlize Theron has been named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
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From October 2005 to December 2006, Charlize Theron earned US$3 million for the use of her image in a worldwide print media advertising campaign for Raymond Weil watches.
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In 2018, Charlize Theron joined Brad Pitt, Daniel Wu and Adam Driver as brand ambassadors for Breitling, dubbed the Breitling Cinema Squad.
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In 2007, Charlize Theron became a naturalised citizen of the United States, while retaining her South African citizenship.
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Charlize Theron has adopted two children: a daughter in March 2012 and another daughter in July 2015.
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Charlize Theron has been interested in adoption since childhood, when she became aware of orphanages and the overflowing numbers of children in them.
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Charlize Theron said of her daughters, "They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide".
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Charlize Theron is inspired by actresses Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver.
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Charlize Theron has described her admiration for Tom Hanks as a "love affair" and watched many of his films throughout her youth.
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Charlize Theron later presented him his Cecil B DeMille Award in 2020, in which Hanks revealed that he had a mutual admiration for Theron's career since the day he met her.
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Charlize Theron said in 2018 that she went to therapy in her thirties because of anger, discovering that it was due to her frustration growing up during South Africa's apartheid, which ended when she was 15.
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Charlize Theron is a longtime fan of the English band Depeche Mode, and was the presenter for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2020.
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Charlize Theron was in a three-year relationship with singer Stephan Jenkins until October 2001.
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Charlize Theron began a relationship with Irish actor Stuart Townsend in 2001 after meeting him on the set of Trapped.
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In December 2013, Charlize Theron began dating American actor Sean Penn.