Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron was born on Aug 07, 1975 in South Africa. Charlize Theron's big-screen debut came with Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest directed by James D.R. Hickox in 1995. Charlize Theron is known for Kubo and the Two Strings directed by Travis Knight, Art Parkinson stars as Kubo and Charlize Theron as Mother. Charlize Theron has got 69 awards and 147 nominations so far. The most recent award Charlize Theron achieved is Costume Designers Guild Awards. The upcoming new movie Charlize Theron plays is Fast X which will be released on May 19, 2023.

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle.Theron received an education as a ballet dancer and has danced both the "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker". There was not much work for a young actress or dancer in South Africa, so she soon traveled to Europe and the United States, where she got a job at the Joffrey Ballet in New York. She was also able to work as a photo model. However, an injured knee put a halt to her dancing career.In 1994, her mother bought her a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, and Charlize started visiting all of the agents on Hollywood Boulevard, but without any luck. She went to a bank to cash a check for $500 she received from her mother, and became furious when she learned that the bank would not cash it because it was an out-of-state check. She made a scene and an agent gave her his card, in exchange for learning American English, which she did by watching soap operas on television.Her first role was in the B-film Les démons du maïs 3 (1995), a non-speaking part with three seconds of screen time. Her next role was as Helga Svelgen in 2 jours à Los Angeles (1996), which landed her the role of Tina Powers in That Thing You Do! (1996). Since then, she has starred in movies like L'associé du diable (1997), Mon ami Joe (1998), L'oeuvre de Dieu, la part du diable (1999), La légende de Bagger Vance (2000) and Braquage à l'italienne (2003). On February 29, 2004, she won her first Academy Award, a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Monster (2003).