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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

Birthday: 1975-08-07 | Place of Birth: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa

Charlize Theron (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, a Screen Actors Guild 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 Oscar in an acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). Theron has since 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), and The Old Guard (2020). She also 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), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last. 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Mad Max: Fury Road

as    Imperator Furiosa

2021
The Addams Family 2

as    Morticia Addams (voice)

2020
The Old Guard

as    Andromache of Scythia / Andy

2019
Long Shot

as    Charlotte Field

2019
Bombshell

as    Megyn Kelly

2019
The Addams Family

as    Morticia Addams (voice)

2018
Gringo

as    Elaine Markinson

2018
Tully

as    Marlo Moreau

2017
The Fate of the Furious

as    Cipher

2017
The Last Face

as    Dr. Wren Petersen

2017
Atomic Blonde

as    Lorraine Broughton

2016
Kubo and the Two Strings

as    Monkey / Mother (voice)

2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War

as    Queen Ravenna

2015
Dark Places

as    Libby Day

2014
2012
Prometheus

as    Meredith Vickers

2012
Snow White and the Huntsman

as    Queen Ravenna

2011
Young Adult

as    Mavis Gary

2009
The Road

as    Mother

2009
The Burning Plain

as    Sylvia / Mariana

2008
Battle in Seattle

as    Ella

2008
Sleepwalking

as    Joleen

2008
Hancock

as    Mary Embrey

2007
In the Valley of Elah

as    Detective Emily Sanders

2005
North Country

as    Josey Aimes

2005
Æon Flux

as    Æon Flux