Charlize Theron
Born August 07, 1975 (Age: 50)
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Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
High & Low – John Galliano
2024
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as Self
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Age: 48
Fast X
2023
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as Cipher
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Age: 47
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
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as Clea
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Age: 46
The Addams Family 2
2021
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as Morticia Addams (voice)
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Age: 46
F9
2021
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as Cipher
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Age: 45
Bombshell
2019
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as Megyn Kelly
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Age: 44
The Addams Family
2019
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as Morticia Addams (voice)
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Age: 44
Tully
2018
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as Marlo Moreau
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Age: 42
Gringo
2018
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as Elaine Markinson
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Age: 42
Atomic Blonde
2017
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as Lorraine Broughton
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Age: 41
The Fate of the Furious
2017
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as Cipher
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Age: 41
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
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as Monkey / Mother (voice)
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Age: 41
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
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as Queen Ravenna
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Age: 40
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015
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as Imperator Furiosa
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Age: 39
Dark Places
2015
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as Libby Day
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Age: 39
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
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as Anna
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Age: 38
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012
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as Queen Ravenna
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Age: 36
Prometheus
2012
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as Meredith Vickers
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Age: 36
Young Adult
2011
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as Mavis Gary
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Age: 36
The Road
2009
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as Mother
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Age: 34
Astro Boy
2009
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as "Our Friends" Narrator (voice)
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Age: 34
The Burning Plain
2008
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as Sylvia / Mariana
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Age: 33
Hancock
2008
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as Mary
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Age: 32
Sleepwalking
2008
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as Joleen
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Age: 32
In the Valley of Elah
2007
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as Detective Emily Sanders
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Age: 32
Battle in Seattle
2007
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as Ella
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Age: 32
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
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as Self
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Age: 30
Æon Flux
2005
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as Æon Flux
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Age: 30
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 29
North Country
2005
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as Josey Aimes
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Age: 29
Monster
2003
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as Aileen Wuornos
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Age: 28
The Italian Job
2003
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as Stella Bridger
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Age: 27
Waking Up in Reno
2002
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as Candy Kirkendall
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Age: 27
Trapped
2002
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as Karen
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Age: 27
15 Minutes
2001
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as Rose Hearn
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Age: 25
Sweet November
2001
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as Sara Deever
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Age: 25
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
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as Adele Invergordon
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Age: 25
Men of Honor
2000
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as Gwen Sunday
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Age: 25
The Yards
2000
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as Erica Soltz
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Age: 24
Reindeer Games
2000
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as Ashley Mercer
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Age: 24
The Cider House Rules
1999
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as Candy Kendall
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Age: 24
The Astronaut's Wife
1999
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as Jillian Armacost
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Age: 24
Celebrity
1998
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as Supermodel
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Age: 23
The Devil's Advocate
1997
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as Mary Ann Lomax
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Age: 22
Trial and Error
1997
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as Billie Tyler
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Age: 21
That Thing You Do!
1996
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as Tina
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Age: 21
2 Days in the Valley
1996
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as Helga Svelgen
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Age: 21