Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer who was born on August 7, 1975. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world and has won numerous honors, such as an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was listed among the top 100 important people in the world by Time magazine in 2016.
The role of the main lady in the Hollywood movies The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999) propelled Theron to international fame in the 1990s. She won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress in 2003's Monster for her depiction of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, which won her critical acclaim and made her the first South African to win an acting Oscar. In the drama North Country (2005), she was nominated for an additional Academy Award for her performance as a victim of sexual assault seeking retribution.
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), and F9 (2021) are just a few of the action movies in which Theron has starred. She was praised for her roles as damaged women in the comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018) by Jason Reitman as well as her portrayal of Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), for which she received a third Academy Award nomination.
Theron has dabbled in film production since the early 2000s with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced a large number of movies, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019), many of which she starred in. In 2007, Theron obtained American citizenship while keeping her South African one. A movie star honoring her has been added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Early Years
Theron was born on August 7, 1975, in Benoni, Transvaal Province (Gauteng Province since 1994), South Africa. She is the only child of road builders Gerda (née Maritz): 16–18 and Charles Theron (27 November 1947–21 June 1991).: 16–18, 34 The Second Boer War general Danie Theron was her great-granduncle.: 14 She comes from an Afrikaner family and has Dutch, French, and German ancestry. Her French ancestors were among the first Huguenots to settle in South Africa. "Theron" is an Occitan last name that was originally spelled Théron and is pronounced as in Afrikaans.
She was raised on the family farm in Benoni, a city close to Johannesburg. On June 21, 1991, Theron's drunken father physically assaulted her mother and pointed a gun at both of them as he threatened teenage Charlize and her mother. Theron's mother pulled out her own firearm, fired at him, killing him. Her mother did not face charges since the shooting was ruled to have been in self-defense by the law.
Theron has stated that she struggled to "fit in" when attending Putfontein Primary School (Laerskool Putfontein). She suffered from jaundice frequently as a kid, and the medicines she was given caused her upper incisor milk teeth to decay (requiring surgical removal); also, her teeth did not begin to erupt until she was almost ten years old. Theron started her education at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg when she was 13 and was sent to boarding school. She has expressed the following about her early years in her native South Africa: "I grew up as an only child there, and although there was strife in my family, the surroundings were so wonderful. There were no Game Boys, laptops, or concerts because we had sanctions, so I spent much of my time barefoot on the dirt. You had to find ways to amuse yourself as a result.
Theron is fluent in English, but Afrikaans is her native tongue.
Career
Initial works (1991–1996)
Despite considering herself a dancer, Theron moved with her mother to Milan, Italy, when she was 16 after winning a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in Salerno. Theron and her mother went to Miami and New York City after Theron spent a year modeling throughout Europe. She trained as a ballet dancer at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York until a knee injury stopped this career path. In 2008, Theron recalled:
I traveled to New York for three days to model, and then I stayed there for the winter in a friend's basement apartment without any windows. My knees gave out while I was taking a class at the Joffrey Ballet and I was broke. When I accepted that I couldn't dance any longer, I experienced a severe depression. "Either you figure out what to do next or you come home, because you can sulk in South Africa," my mother stated when she arrived from there.
In order to work in the film industry, Theron traveled to Los Angeles in 1994 on a one-way ticket that her mother had purchased for her. She stayed in a motel for her first few months there on the $300 budget her mother had given her; she continued to get checks from New York and lived "from paycheck to paycheck" to the point where she had to steal bread from a restaurant basket to survive. She attempted to cash a couple checks at a bank on Hollywood Boulevard one day, including one her mother had sent to help with the rent, but it was declined since it was from out-of-state and she was not an American citizen. Theron begged and pleaded with the bank teller until the next customer behind her, talent agent John Crosby, cashed it and gave her his business card.
Theron attended an acting school thanks to Crosby, and in the 1995 horror movie Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, she had her first silent part. Although 2 Days in the Valley (1996) received mixed reviews, Charlize Theron's first speaking role was that of Helga Svelgen, the hitwoman. Despite this, Theron attracted attention for her beauty and the fight scene she had with Teri Hatcher's character. Playing the same role repeatedly doesn't give you any longevity, and I knew it would be harder for me, because of how I look, to branch out to different kinds of roles. Theron feared being typecast as characters similar to Helga and recalled being asked to repeat her performance in the film during auditions.
J was introduced to Theron when she went to the Showgirls audition. Johanna Ray, the co-casting director, casts J. Harris. She referred to Harris as her mentor and remembers being taken aback by how much faith Harris had in her abilities. Harris pushed Theron to pursue a career in producing by helping her uncover scripts and movies in many genres. She would serve as Theron's agent up until Harris's passing for more than 15 years.
Innovate (1997–2002)
By the end of the 1990s, her career had grown and she was playing bigger parts in widely seen Hollywood movies. Theron co-starred with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino in the horror drama The Devil's Advocate (1997), widely regarded as her breakthrough movie, as the troubled spouse of an eerily successful lawyer. She then played a buddy and protector of a large mountain gorilla in the action movie Mighty Joe Young (1998) and a lady seeking an abortion in pre-World War II Maine in the drama The Cider House Rules (1999). The Devil's Advocate and The Cider House Rules were commercial successes whilst Mighty Joe Young performed poorly. She appeared as the "White Hot Venus" on the cover of Vanity Fair's January 1999 issue. Theron unsuccessfully sued Playboy magazine for using her images on the cover of the May 1999 issue; they were taken when she was an unknown model and published years earlier.
Early in the new millennium, Theron kept steadily taking on parts in movies like Reindeer Games (2000), The Yards (2000), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Men of Honor (2000), Sweet November (2001), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), and Trapped (2002), all of which, despite having only modest commercial success, contributed to her development as an actress. Theron reflected on this time in her career, saying, "I kept finding myself in a place where directors would back me but studios didn't. [I began] a love affair with directors, the ones I really, truly admired. I found myself making really bad movies, too. Reindeer Games was not a good movie, but I did it because I loved [director] John Frankenheimer."
Success in the media and recognition on a global scale (2003–2008)
In the 2003 heist movie The Italian Job, which was an American homage/remake of the 1969 British film of the same name, directed by F. Gary Gray, Theron played a safe and vault technician. Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, and Donald Sutherland co-star with Gary Gray. With a global box office take of US$176 million, the movie was a hit.
Theron played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 film Monster. The former prostitute was executed in Florida in 2002 after killing six men (she was never charged with a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s; according to Roger Ebert, Theron gave "one of the greatest performances in the history of cinema." She received the Best Actress Academy Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe Award for her performance at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004. She became the first South African to win the Best Actress Oscar. She ranked eighth on The Hollywood Reporter's 2006 list of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, earning up to US$10 million for a single movie as a result of her Oscar victory. She was ranked as the most desirable lady of 2003 by AskMen.
Theron received nominations for both the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. On Fox's television show Arrested Development's third season, she played Rita, Michael Bluth's (Jason Bateman) mentally challenged love interest. She also starred in the commercially unsuccessful science fiction thriller On Flux, for which she won a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female.
Theron portrayed an iron mine worker who was being sexually harassed and a single mother in the critically acclaimed film North Country (2005). Although the difficulties of following a career-redefining Oscar role have stymied actresses, Charlize Theron segues from Monster to a performance that is in many ways more accomplished. The strength of both the performance and the character anchor the movie firmly in the tradition of other dramas about working-class women leading the fight against industrial workplace issues, such as Norma Rae or Silence. She was recognized for this performance in the Fall 2005 issue of Ms. magazine with a feature article. Theron received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 30, 2005.
Theron appeared as a police detective in the highly regarded crime thriller In the Valley of Elah in 2007. She also produced and co-starred with Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb in the drama Sleepwalking as a careless, slatternly mother. The latter movie was acclaimed by The Christian Science Monitor, which said that "Sleepwalking has a core of feeling" despite its flaws and the insufficient screen time given to Theron (who is pretty good). Theron appeared in the drama The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga, opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger, and she also co-starred with Will Smith in the superhero movie Hancock as the ex-wife of an alcoholic superhero. The Burning Plain only had a small domestic theatrical run, but it made $5,267,917 abroad. Hancock earned $624,3 million globally. Also in 2008, Theron received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year award and a request from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve as a UN Messenger of Peace.
Careervolatility and a break (2009–2016)
In 2009, she had two movies come out: the animated movie Astro Boy, in which she provided a character's voice, and the post-apocalyptic drama The Road, in which she has a brief cameo appearance in flashbacks. Along with several other famous people of South African descent, Theron co-presented the 2010 FIFA World Cup draw in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 4, 2009. She drew an Ireland ball during practice in place of a France ball as a joke on FIFA, alluding to the Thierry Henry handball issue in the France vs. Ireland play-off match. FIFA was sufficiently disturbed by the prank to worry that she would repeat it in front of a live international audience.
Theron returned to the spotlight in 2011 with the dark comedy Young Adult after a two-year absence from the big screen. The Jason Reitman-directed movie received favorable reviews, especially for her portrayal of a miserable, divorced, and alcoholic 37-year-old ghostwriter. "Charlize Theron delivers one of the most impressive performances of the year," said Richard Roeper, who gave the movie an A. Several awards, including the Golden Globe, were nominated for her. She was hailed as one of the top actors in the business by Roger Ebert.
Theron discussed her approach to preparing for roles in 2019. It's a case-by-case thing, but there is, to me, this beautiful thing that happens when you can get both sides: the exterior and the interior. It's a really powerful dynamic. Creating a physical identity together with the emotional part of the character is, in her words, "a great tool set that adds on to everything else you were already doing as an actor." In order to prepare for a role, "I almost treat it like studying. I will find space where I am alone, where I can be focused, where there's nobody in my house, and I can really just sit down and study and play and look at my face and hear my voice and walk around and be a fucking idiot and my dogs are the only ones seeing that."
Theron played the bad guy in two big-budget movies in 2012. In Snow White and the Huntsman, she co-starred with Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth as Evil Queen Ravenna, Snow White's evil stepmother, and in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, she played a crew member with a secret motive. While Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised Charlize Theron for her performance as the truly evil queen in Prometheus, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described Snow White and the Huntsman as a "slow, boring film that has no charm and is highlighted only by a handful of special effects and Charlize Theron's truly evil queen." Both movies were huge successes at the box office, taking in about $400 million apiece globally. The actress was ranked as the 68th Most Valuable Star in Hollywood by Vulture/NYMag the year after, with the publication noting that "any actress who's got that kind of skill, beauty, and ferocity ought to have a permanent place in Hollywood." Theron presided over Saturday Night Live on NBC on May 10. Theron played the wife of a notorious criminal in Seth MacFarlane's western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), which received mixed reviews and average box office receipts.
Theron starred as the lone survivor of her family's massacre in the Gilles Paquet-Brenner-directed Dark Places adaptation in 2015, for which she also received a producer credit, and she co-starred with Tom Hardy as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. Widespread accolades from critics for Mad Max included compliments for Charlize Theron's portrayal of the character's domineering personality. The movie brought around $378.4 million USD globally. She then played Queen Ravenna once more in the critically and financially unsuccessful 2016 sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, The Huntsman: Winter's War. In 2016, Theron co-starred alongside Sean Penn in the underrated romantic drama The Last Face as a doctor and activist working in West Africa. She also performed the voice of Kubo in the 3D stop-motion fantasy picture Kubo and the Two Strings and produced the indie drama Brain on Fire. She was included on the Time 100 list of the world's most important people that same year.
Resurrection (as of 2017)
Theron plays the major enemy of the entire franchise, the cyberterrorist Cipher, in The Fate of the Furious in 2017. She also portrayed a spy on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in David Leitch's Atomic Blonde, a film version of the graphic novel The Coldest City. The global box office receipts for The Fate of the Furious were US$1.2 billion. and Atomic Blonde was called "a slick vehicle for the magnetic, badass charms of Charlize Theron, who is now officially an A-list action star on the strength of this film and Mad Max: Fury Road" by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times. Theron portrayed a stressed-out mother of three in the 2018 black comedy Tully, which was written and directed by Jason Reitman. The movie received positive reviews from critics, who noted that Charlize Theron gave an amazing performance as she "dives into the modern parenthood experience with an admirably deft blend of humor and raw honesty." In the crime thriller Gringo and the biographical war drama A Private War, both of which were released in 2018, she produced and portrayed the president of a pharmaceutical company.
Theron produced and acted in the romantic comedy Long Shot, which was directed by Jonathan Levine and starring Seth Rogen and her as a U.S. Secretary of State who rekindles her friendship with a former journalist she babysat. The movie made its global premiere in March 2019 at South by Southwest and was released on May 3 to rave reviews from reviewers. After that, Theron co-produced and starred as Megyn Kelly in the drama Bombshell. The movie, which was directed by Jay Roach, is focused on the claims of sexual harassment made against Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News, by former female employees. Theron was nominated for several awards for her performance in the movie, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. With a yearly salary of $23 million, Forbes placed her as the ninth highest-paid actress in the world in that year. She co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred with KiKi Layne in Gina Prince-Bythewood's 2020 film The Old Guard. She returned to the role of Cipher in F9, which was originally scheduled for release on May 22nd, 2020, but was postponed until June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Theron would play the role of Clea in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), commencing with her debut in the mid-credits scene of the superhero movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it was disclosed at the time the movie was released in May 2022. In the fantasy Netflix movie The School for Good and Evil (2022), she portrayed Lady Lesso. The actress guest-stars as an actor playing Stormfront in The Boys' Season 3 premiere.
Other Businesses
Activism
Theron founded the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) in 2007 to aid African youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The following year, Theron was appointed a UN Messenger of Peace. The project is dedicated on assisting neighborhood-based groups that focus on the main causes of the disease. Although Sub-Saharan Africa is covered by CTAOP's geographic scope, Charlize's native South Africa has received the majority of the attention. A total of more than $6.3 million had been raised by CTAOP by November 2017 to aid African groups on the ground.
Theron was selected as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2008. "You have consistently dedicated yourself to improving the lives of women and children in South Africa, as well as to preventing and stopping violence against women and girls," Ban Ki-Moon said of Theron in his commendation. As a part of their Stop Rape Now campaign, she recorded a PSA in 2014.
Toms Shoes and CTAOP teamed up to produce a limited-edition unisex shoe in December 2009. The African baobab tree, whose silhouette was embroidered on blue and orange canvas, served as the inspiration for the shoe, which was created from vegan ingredients. 10,000 pairs were donated to underprivileged kids, and a percentage of the money went to CTAOP.
In order to empower women to be assertive, CTAOP and Parfums Christian Dior joined up to launch Dior Stands With Women in 2020. The project features Cara Delevingne, Yalitza Aparicio, Leona Bloom, Paloma Elsesser, and others.
Theron has participated in pro-choice marches and is active in organizations that support women's rights.
Theron, who supports same-sex unions, participated in a march and rally in favor of it on May 30, 2009, in Fresno, California. "I don't want to get married because right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I think it would be exactly the same if we were married, but for me to go through that kind of ceremony, because I have so many friends who are gay and lesbian who would so desperately want to get married," she said in a public statement. In an interview with Piers Morgan Tonight from June 2011, Theron went into more detail about her position. "I do have a problem with the fact that our government hasn't stepped up enough to make this federal, to make [gay marriage] legal. I think everyone has that right," she said.
The 86th Academy Awards' Fame and Philanthropy fundraising event included CTAOP among the charities that benefited in March 2014. Along with Halle Berry and the keynote speaker James Cameron, Theron was a special guest.
As the leader of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa, respectively, Theron signed an open letter in 2015 that One Campaign had been gathering signatures for. The letter urged them to prioritize women as they start to set the priorities in development funding before a major UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation. She traveled to South Africa in August 2017 with Trevor Noah and gave to the local charity Life Choices. She spoke on AIDS prevention in 2018 at the International AIDS Society's 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam.
Theron has held the title of UN Messenger of Peace ever since 2008.
Theron and Sheryl Lee Ralph received the Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS Award for their dedication to bringing attention to HIV at the Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS fundraiser gala, it was announced on June 22, 2022.
Endorsements
Theron took up the role of Christian Dior's J'Adore ambassador from Estonian model Tiiu Kuik after signing a contract with John Galliano in 2004. She made her appearance in a brand-new Dior J'adore advertisement in 2018. Theron made US$3 million between October 2005 and December 2006 through the use of her likeness in a global print media advertising campaign for Raymond Weil timepieces. She and her production business were sued by Weil for contract breach in February 2006. On November 4, 2008, the case was resolved. Theron joined the Breitling Cinema Squad, also made up of Brad Pitt, Daniel Wu, and Adam Driver, as brand ambassadors in 2018.
Private life
While keeping her South African citizenship, Theron naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 2007.
Theron adopted two girls, the first in March 2012 and the second in July 2015. Since she was a little child, when she first learned about orphanages and the overwhelming number of kids living there, she has been interested in adoption. Theron disclosed that Jackson, who was seven years old at the time, is a transgender girl in April 2019. "They were born who they are," she remarked of her girls, "and where exactly they both find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide."
The actors Sigourney Weaver and Susan Sarandon serve as her role models. She has referred to her affection for Tom Hanks as a "love affair" and has seen many of his movies since she was a young girl. She did not know how well-known he was until she arrived to the United States because Hollywood celebrities were not often featured in South African periodicals, which has been cited as a contributing factor to her "down-to-earth" approach to fame. following That Thing You Do!'s filming! Theron obtained Hanks' signature on her completed script. She later gave him the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020, and Hanks mentioned that he has admired Theron's career ever since they first met.
Theron claimed in 2018 that she sought therapy for rage in her thirties and learned that it was a result of her displeasure with growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era, which ended when she was fifteen.
Theron, a lifelong admirer of the English band Depeche Mode, served as the presenter for the group's 2020 entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Relationships
Theron's first known relationship lasted from 1995 to 1997 with actor Craig Bierko.
Up until October 2001, Theron had been dating singer Stephan Jenkins for three years. Jenkins' feelings following their split are explored in part of Third Eye Blind's third album, Out of the Vein.
After meeting Stuart Townsend on the Trapped set in 2001, Theron started dating the Irish actor. The pair shared residences in Ireland and Los Angeles. Late in 2009, the couple divorced.
Theron started dating American actor Sean Penn in December 2013. The union broke apart in June 2015.
Health issues
Theron frequently jokes that she gets hurt more on sets for non-action movies, but when filming Flux in Berlin, Theron ruptured a disc in her neck after falling while performing a series of back handsprings. She had to use a neck brace for a month as a result. Her thumb snagged in another actor's jacket during a fight scene in The Old Guard, causing her thumb ligament to tear. This necessitated three operations and six months in a thumb brace. No serious accidents occurred when Atomic Blonde was being filmed, but she underwent dental surgery to remove broken teeth from her clenched jaw: "I had the removal and I had to put a donor bone in there to heal until I came back, and then I had another surgery to put a metal screw in there."
Outside of action movies, she suffered from a herniated disk in her lower back and experienced depression-like symptoms while filming Tully, which she believed was caused by the processed foods she had to consume for her character's post-natal body. She was diagnosed with a severe stomach illness in July 2009, which was likely acquired while traveling. Theron suffered vocal cord damage while filming The Road's labor scream scenes. She admitted that she laughed so hard at Borat that her neck locked for five days when she was advertising Long Shot. She continued by saying that while filming Long Shot, while putting on knee protectors, she "ended up in the ER" after hitting her head against a bench in the background.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1995 | Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest | Eli's Follower | Uncredited; |
1996 | 2 Days in the Valley | Helga Svelgen | |
1996 | That Thing You Do! | Tina Powers | |
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 | Men of Honor | Gwen Sunday | |
2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Adele Invergordon | |
2001 | Sweet November | Sara Deever | |
2001 | 15 Minutes | Rose Hearn | |
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 | Also producer |
2004 | Head in the Clouds | Gilda Bessé | |
2005 | North Country | Josey Aimes | |
2005 | Æon Flux | Æon Flux | |
2006 | East of Havana | — | Documentary; producer only |
2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Det. Emily Sanders | |
2007 | Battle in Seattle | Ella | |
2008 | Sleepwalking | Joleen Reedy | Also producer |
2008 | Hancock | Mary Embrey | |
2008 | The Burning Plain | Sylvia | Also executive producer |
2009 | The Road | Wife | |
2009 | Astro Boy | Narrator (voice) | |
2011 | Young Adult | Mavis Gary | |
2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Queen Ravenna | |
2012 | Prometheus | Meredith Vickers | |
2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Anna | |
2015 | Dark Places | Libby Day | Also producer |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Imperator Furiosa | |
2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Queen Ravenna | |
2016 | The Last Face | Wren Petersen | |
2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Monkey (voice) | |
2016 | Brain on Fire | — | Producer only |
2017 | Atomic Blonde | Lorraine Broughton | Also producer |
2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Cipher | |
2018 | Tully | Marlo | Also producer |
2018 | Gringo | Elaine Markinson | Also producer |
2019 | Long Shot | Charlotte Field | Also producer |
2019 | Murder Mystery | — | Executive producer only |
2019 | The Addams Family | Morticia Addams (voice) | Also executive producer |
2019 | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly | Also producer |
2020 | The Old Guard | Andy / Andromache of Scythia | Also producer |
2021 | F9 | Cipher | |
2021 | The Addams Family 2 | Morticia Addams (voice) | |
2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Clea | Cameo; post-credits scene |
2022 | The School for Good and Evil | Lady Lesso | |
2023 | Fast X | Cipher | Post-production |
2023 | The Old Guard 2 | Andy / Andromache of Scythia | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
1997 | Hollywood Confidential | Sally Bowen | Television film |
2000 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: "Charlize Theron / Paul Simon" |
2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Britt Ekland | Television film |
2005 | Arrested Development | Rita Leeds | 5 episodes |
2006 | Robot Chicken | Daniel's Mom / Mother / Waitress (voice) | Episode: "Book of Corrine" |
2013 | Hatfields & McCoys | — | Executive producer; television pilot |
2014 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: "Charlize Theron / The Black Keys" |
2017 | Girlboss | — | Executive producer; 13 episodes |
2017 | The Orville | Pria Lavesque | Episode: "Pria" |
2017–2019 | Mindhunter | — | Executive producer; 19 episodes |
2019 | Hyperdrive | — | Executive producer; 10 episodes |
2020 | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | Fezzik | Episode: "Have Fun Storming The Castle!" |
2022 | The Boys | Actress playing Stormfront | Episode: "Payback" |
Music videos
Year | Title | Role | Artist | |
2010 | Crossfire | Heroine | Brandon Flowers |
Video games
Year | Title | Voice role |
2005 | Æon Flux | Æon Flux |
Web
Year | Title | Role |
2009 | Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis | Herself |
2012 | Charlize Theron Got Hacked | Herself |
2017 | 10 Ways To Drive Him Wild (ft. Charlize Theron) | Herself |
Accolades
Organizations | Year | Work | Category | Result |
Academy Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
Academy Awards | 2006 | North Country | Best Actress | Nominated |
Academy Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Audie Awards | 2010 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Audiobook of the Year | Won |
Audie Awards | 2010 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Multi-Voiced Performance | Won |
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best International Lead Actress – Cinema | Nominated |
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Lead Actress – Cinema | Nominated |
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best International Lead Actress – Cinema | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards | 2005 | Monster | Best Film Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards | 2006 | North Country | Best Film Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Film Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
Bambi Award | 2000 | The Cider House Rules | Shooting Star: Female | Won |
Berlin International Film Festival | 2004 | Monster | Silver Bear for Best Actress | Won |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2014 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Movie Actress | Won |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2006 | North Country | Best Movie Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2012 | Young Adult | Best Movie Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Action Movie Actress | Won |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Movie Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2019 | Tully | Best Comedy Movie Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Movie Actress | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Movie Cast | Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2005 | North Country | Best Actress | Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2011 | Young Adult | Best Actress | Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Actress | Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards | 2011 | Young Adult | Best Actress | Nominated |
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Emmy Awards (Primetime) | 2005 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie | Nominated |
Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Female Lead | Won |
Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best First Feature Film Production | Won |
Florida Film Critics Circle Award | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Georgia Film Critics Association | 2011 | Young Adult | Best Actress | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Won |
Golden Globe Awards | 2005 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | 2006 | North Country | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | 2012 | Young Adult | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | 2019 | Tully | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Nominated |
Golden Raspberry Awards | 2002 | Sweet November | Worst Actress | Nominated |
Golden Raspberry Awards | 2015 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Worst Actress | Nominated |
Golden Raspberry Awards | 2015 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Worst Screen Combo (with Seth MacFarlane) | Nominated |
Hollywood Critics Association Award | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Hollywood Film Award | 2005 | North Country | Best Actress of the Year | Won |
Houston Film Critics Society Award | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
International Online Film Critics' Poll | 2010 | Monster | Best Actress of the Decade | Won |
Irish Film & Television Drama Academy | 2004 | Monster | Best Film International Actress | Nominated |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards | 2004 | Monster | Actress of the Year | Nominated |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards | 2019 | Bombshell | Actress of the Year | Nominated |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | 2nd place |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Kiss of the Year in a Movie | Nominated |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2004 | Monster | Best Performance of the Year in a Movie | Nominated |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Fight of the Year in a Movie | Nominated |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Hero of the Year in a Movie | Nominated |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Performance of the Year in a Movie | Won |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2018 | Atomic Blonde | Best Fight of the Year in a Movie | Nominated |
National Board of Review | 2003 | Monster | Best Breakthrough Performance | Won |
National Society of Film Critics | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
New York Film Critics Circle Award | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | 3rd place |
New York Film Critics Online | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2017 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Favorite Villain | Nominated |
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2017 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Favorite Frenemies (shared with Emily Blunt) | Nominated |
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2022 | The Addams Family 2 | Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie | Nominated |
Online Film Critics Society | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Nominated |
Online Film Critics Society | 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Actress | Nominated |
Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2006 | North Country | Desert Palm Achievement Award | Won |
Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2012 | Young Adult | Chairman's Vanguard Award | Won |
Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2020 | Bombshell | International Star Award | Won |
People's Choice Awards | 2013 | Prometheus | Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress | Nominated |
People's Choice Awards | 2013 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress | Nominated |
People's Choice Awards | 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Favorite Action Movie Actress | Nominated |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Satellite Awards | 2000 | The Cider House Rules | Best Supporting Actress in a Film | Nominated |
Satellite Awards | 2011 | Young Adult | Best Actress in a Film | Nominated |
Satellite Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Best Actress in a Film | Nominated |
Saturn Awards | 2010 | The Burning Plain | Best Film Lead Actress | Nominated |
Saturn Awards | 2013 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Best Film Supporting Actress | Nominated |
Saturn Awards | 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Film Lead Actress | Won |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2000 | The Cider House Rules | Outstanding Motion Picture Cast | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2004 | Monster | Outstanding Motion Picture Actress | Won |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2005 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Outstanding Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television Actress | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2006 | North Country | Outstanding Motion Picture Actress | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Outstanding Motion Picture Actress | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2020 | Bombshell | Outstanding Motion Picture Cast | Nominated |
Spike Video Game Award | 2005 | Aeon Flux | Best Performance by a Female | Won |
St. Louis Film Critics Association | 2018 | Tully | Best Actress | Nominated |
St. Louis Film Critics Association | 2019 | Bombshell | Best Actress | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Choice Movie: Hissy Fit | Won |
Teen Choice Awards | 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Choice Movie: Villain | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | 2012 | Prometheus | Choice Movie: Summer Actress | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actress | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Choice Movie: Villain | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Choice Movie: Villain | Nominated |
Vancouver Film Critics Circle | 2003 | Monster | Best Actress | Won |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | 2005 | North Country | Best Actress | Nominated |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Best Actress | Nominated |
Women Film Critics Circle | 2017 | Atomic Blonde | Courage in Acting | Nominated |
Award | Year |
Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2005 |
Indie Impact Award | 2012 |
American Cinematheque Award | 2019 |
Hollywood Career Achievement Award |
Quick Bio
Gender | Female |
Age | 47 years old (in 2023) |
Date of Birth | August 7, 1975 |
Full Name | Charlize Theron |
Profession | Actress, Producer, Animal Rights Activist |
Nationality | South African-American |
Birthplace | Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa |
Religion | Not Known |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
School | Joffrey Ballet School in New York City |
Profession | Actress, Producer, Animal Rights Activist |
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Height | 5 feet 8 inches (1.77 m) |
Weight | 55 kg (121 lbs) |
Waist | 24 inches |
Hair Color | Blonde |
Eye Color | Green |
Shoe Size | 5 |
Dress Size | 2 (US) |
Family & Relatives
Father | Charles Jacobus Theron |
Mother | Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz |
Marital Status | Divorced |
No. of Children | 2 |
Son | Jackson Theron (Adopted) |
Daughter | August Theron (Adopted) |
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