Charlize Theron

Known for ActingBorn 1975-08-07 (age 50)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.Read more

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Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Hot Ones Versus

The Boys

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

Bambi

MINDHUNTER

The Grand Tour

Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Studio

Arrested Development

The Orville

Mad Max: Fury Road

Kubo and the Two Strings

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

RuPaul's Drag Race

Inside the Actors Studio

Men of Honor

Rove

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

The Devil's Advocate

The Old Guard

North Country

The Graham Norton Show

The School for Good and Evil

Hot Ones

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

Fast X

Monster

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

F9

Hyperdrive

Brain on Fire

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

The Addams Family 2

The Road

It’s a Mad Max World

The Cider House Rules

The Fate of the Furious

Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road

The Colbert Report

A Private War

Bombshell

Tully

Apex

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York