Charlize Theron
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.
Filmography (58)
Apex
The Odyssey
The Old Guard 2
Fast X
Murder Mystery 2
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The School for Good and Evil
The Addams Family 2
F9
The Old Guard
The Addams Family
Long Shot
Bombshell
Murder Mystery
Tully
Gringo
A Private War
Atomic Blonde
The Fate of the Furious
The Last Face
Brain on Fire
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dark Places
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Snow White and the Huntsman
Prometheus
Young Adult
Astro Boy
The Road
Hancock
The Burning Plain
Sleepwalking
In the Valley of Elah
Battle in Seattle
Æon Flux
North Country
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Head in the Clouds
Monster
The Italian Job
Trapped
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
15 Minutes
Sweet November
Men of Honor
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Reindeer Games
The Yards
The Astronaut's Wife
The Cider House Rules
Mighty Joe Young
Celebrity
The Devil's Advocate
That Thing You Do!
2 Days in the Valley
