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Charlize Theron

1975-08-07

The Biography

Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZTHERR-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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Fast X

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Mad Max: Fury Road

7.617 average rating
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

7.279 average rating
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Fast X: Part 2

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The Fate of the Furious

6.871 average rating
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Prometheus

6.572 average rating
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The Devil's Advocate

7.467 average rating
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The School for Good and Evil

7.052 average rating
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The Addams Family

6.611 average rating
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F9

7.07 average rating
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Snow White and the Huntsman

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Kubo and the Two Strings

7.635 average rating
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The Huntsman: Winter's War

6.285 average rating
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Hancock

6.3 average rating
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The Addams Family 2

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The Italian Job

6.775 average rating
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Monster

7.217 average rating
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Atomic Blonde

6.428 average rating
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A Million Ways to Die in the West

6.043 average rating
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The Old Guard

7.135 average rating