Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 7, 1975
Place of Birth:
Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
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Charlize Theron
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Odyssey | |
| 2025 | The Old Guard 2 | Andromache of Scythia / Andy |
| 2024 | High & Low – John Galliano | Self |
| 2023 | Fast X | Cipher |
| 2023 | Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love | Self - Guest |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Clea |
| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Clea (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | The School for Good and Evil | Lady Lesso |
| 2021 | F9 | Cipher |
| 2021 | The Addams Family 2 | Morticia Addams (voice) |
| 2020 | The Old Guard | Andromache of Scythia / Andy |
| 2019 | Long Shot | Charlotte Field |
| 2019 | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly |
| 2019 | The Addams Family | Morticia Addams (voice) |
| 2018 | Gringo | Elaine Markinson |
| 2018 | Tully | Marlo Moreau |
| 2017 | The Last Face | Dr. Wren Petersen |
| 2017 | Atomic Blonde | Lorraine Broughton |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Cipher |
| 2017 | Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road | Self |
| 2016 | Angels in Exile | Narrator |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Queen Ravenna |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Monkey / Mother (voice) |
| 2015 | Dark Places | Libby Day |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Imperator Furiosa |
| 2015 | Take Flight | Self - Performer |
| 2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Anna |
| 2014 | Nelson Mandela Redrawn | Self |
| 2012 | Prometheus | Meredith Vickers |
| 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Queen Ravenna |
| 2012 | The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus | Self |
| 2011 | Young Adult | Mavis Gary |
| 2010 | Wikus and Charlize | Self (voice) |
| 2009 | The Road | Mother |
| 2009 | Astro Boy | "Our Friends" Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Hancock | Mary |
| 2008 | Sleepwalking | Joleen |
| 2008 | The Burning Plain | Sylvia / Mariana |
| 2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Detective Emily Sanders |
| 2007 | Battle in Seattle | Ella |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self |
| 2005 | Æon Flux | Æon Flux |
| 2005 | North Country | Josey Aimes |
| 2005 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self |
| 2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Britt Ekland |
| 2004 | Head in the Clouds | Gilda Bessé |
| 2003 | Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| 2003 | The Italian Job | Stella Bridger |
| 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | Candy Kirkendall |
| 2002 | Trapped | Karen Jennings |
| 2001 | Sweet November | Sara Deever |
| 2001 | 15 Minutes | Rose Hearn |
| 2001 | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Laura Kensington |
| 2001 | Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Reindeer Games | Ashley Mercer |
| 2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Adele Invergordon |
| 2000 | Men of Honor | Gwen Sunday |
| 2000 | The Yards | Erica Soltz |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | Candy Kendall |
| 1999 | The Astronaut's Wife | Jillian Armacost |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Supermodel |
| 1998 | Mighty Joe Young | Jill Young |
| 1997 | The Devil's Advocate | Mary Ann Lomax |
| 1997 | Trial and Error | Billie Tyler |
| 1997 | Hollywood Confidential | Sally |
| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | Tina |
| 1996 | 2 Days in the Valley | Helga Svelgen |
| 1995 | Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest | Eli's Follower (uncredited) |
| Fast X: Part 2 | Cipher | |
| Jane | Jane | |
| Two for the Money | ||
| Apex |