Charlize Theron

Known for ActingBorn 1975-08-07 (age 51)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, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. 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 was nominated twice more for the Oscar for portraying a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005) and Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018). Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), and The Old Guard (2020), as well as several Fast & Furious installments: The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023). On television, she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Britt Ekland in the biographical film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, many in 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. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlize Theron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

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Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Hot Ones Versus

Burn

The Boys

Bambi

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

MINDHUNTER

The Odyssey

The Grand Tour

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Studio

Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter

Arrested Development

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Kubo and the Two Strings

The Orville

Mad Max: Fury Road

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

RuPaul's Drag Race

Men of Honor

Rove

The Devil's Advocate

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

The Graham Norton Show

North Country

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Hyperdrive

The Old Guard

Hot Ones

The School for Good and Evil

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Monster

Fast X

F9

Brain on Fire

Apex

The Addams Family 2

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

The Road

The Cider House Rules

Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road

It’s a Mad Max World

The Colbert Report

The Fate of the Furious

Bombshell

Tully

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York