Charlize Theron, Actress, - Biography
Actress, model,
Height: 5 ft 11
Weight
135 Pounds
born August 7, 1975 Benoni, South Africa
Charlize
Theron is an Academy Award winning South African actress and former fashion model.
She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster (2004).
She
was first featured in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), starring alongside such actors
and actresses as Danny Aiello and Teri Hatcher.
Theron was born in Benoni,
Gauteng, South Africa. Her father, Charles Theron, was a construction company
owner of French Huguenot descent; her mother, Gerda, is of German descent and
took over her husband's business after his death. Theron's first language is Afrikaans.
She is also fluent in English and speaks some Xhosa, as well as having varying
levels of fluency in around thirty other African languages and dialects, learned
from neighbors and employees on her parents' farm. In the United States, both
in her films and while being interviewed, etc., Theron speaks with a typical American
accent and style of speech, leading most people to assume she is American.
"Theron" is a French surname pronounced in Afrikaans as "Tronn," although she has said that she prefers the pronunciation "Thrown." The pronunciation commonly used in the United States involves two syllables, with stress on the first.
Theron grew up as the only child on her parents' farm near Johannesburg
(Benoni). At the age of thirteen, Charlize was sent to boarding school and began
her studies at the National School Of The Arts in Johannesburg. At fifteen, Theron
witnessed the death of her father, an abusive alcoholic; her mother shot him in
self-defense when he attacked her. No charges were pressed.
Charlize Theron
at the premiere of North Country at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, photo by Tony
ShekAt the age of sixteen, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling
contract, after winning a local competition. Her contract ended while she was
in New York City, and she decided to remain there, attending the Joffrey Ballet
School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career
path when she was 18.
Unable to dance, she bought a ticket to Los Angeles. After eight months in the city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III. She followed this with larger roles in widely released Hollywood films, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s, with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, and Mighty Joe Young.
The May 1999 issue of Playboy published nude photos of Theron, taken during the early years of her modeling career. Claiming they had been "for private use", Theron ended up suing photographer Guido Argentini.
After appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema" , for which Theron won the Best Actress Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Having signed a deal with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik in the J'ADORE advertisements by Christian Dior; she is the current spokeswoman for Dior perfume. On September 30, 2005, she received her own bronze star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux and was given positive reviews. Additionally, she received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for her lead performance in the drama North Country. Ms. Magazine honored her for this performance as well with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue. She had also been nominated for an Oscar as a lead actress for the role, although she did not win; this was her second nomination.
In 2005, Theron also portrayed Rita, Michael Bluth's (Jason Bateman) love interest on the third season of FOX's critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development.
She
also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in the HBO movie
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
After her Oscar win for Monster, she earned
$10,000,000 for both North Country and Aeon Flux. According to The Hollywood Reporter's
2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, she ranked 7th, behind Halle
Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon,
and Nicole Kidman.
Theron dated the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, Stephan
Jenkins, from January 1998 to July 2001. They broke up after Jenkins failed to
take her requests of marriage seriously. Theron now resides in Los Angeles with
her long-time boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, with whom she starred in the 2004 film
Head in the Clouds, as well as in the 2002 film Trapped; she has said that they
will not marry until same-sex couples are able to have their marriages recognized.
In October 2005, her mother, Gerda, was married in California. The media thought
that Charlize was the one getting married (to Townsend) and the paparazzi got
as close as they could for the photos.
While filming Æon Flux in Berlin, Germany, Theron had surgery on a herniated disc in her neck, the result of an injury incurred on the set during a stunt.
In May 2006, Maxim magazine named Theron #25 in its annual Hot 100 issue.
Theron is also involved in women's rights organizations.
In 2006, Theron won GLAAD's Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for increasing "visibility and understanding in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community."
Theron is a supporter of animal rights and active member of PETA. She recently appeared in a PETA ad for their anti-fur campaign.
filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
1996 2 Days in the Valley Helga Svelgen 1997 Trial and Error Billie Tyler 1997
The Devil's Advocate Mary Ann Lomax 1998 Celebrity Supermodel 1998 Mighty Joe
Young Jill Young 1999 The Astronaut's Wife Jillian Armacost 1999 The Cider House
Rules Candy Kendall 2000 Reindeer Games Ashley Mercer 2000 The Yards Erica Stoltz
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance Adele Invergordon 2000 Men of Honor Gwen Sunday
2001 Sweet November Sara Deever Razzie Award Nomination for Worst Actress
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Laura Kensington 2002 Trapped Karen Jennings
2002 Waking Up in Reno Candy Kirkendall 2003 The Italian Job Stella Bridger 2003
Monster Aileen Wuornos Academy Award for Best Actress 2004 The Life and Death
of Peter Sellers Britt Ekland 2004 Head in the Clouds Gilda Bessé limited
release 2005 North Country Josey Aimes Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress
2005 Æon Flux Æon Flux 2007 Ice at the Bottom of the World Pre-production
2007 Ferris Wheel (film) Filming
2007 Jinx In talks 2008 The Brazilian Job
Stella Bridger Pre-production
Pictures of Charlize Theron
A picture of her at a award ceremony
On the floor, very interesting, how nice
Just imagine her as your housewife, as she is here how amazing,
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