Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress and producer. She is the first South African to win an Oscar in an acting category. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil’s Advocate and Mighty Joe Young. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress and producer. She is the first South African to win an Oscar in an acting category. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil’s Advocate and Mighty Joe Young. She has since starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job, Hancock, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Mad Max: Fury Road. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.Theron’s father, an alcoholic, threatened both teenaged Charlize and her mother while drunk, physically attacking her mother and firing a gun at both of them. Her mother retrieved her own handgun, shot back and killed him. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense, and Theron’s mother faced no charges. She was born in Benoni, in the then Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of road constructionists Gerda and Charles Theron. Her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German; her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. She became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. Although she is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans. Her last name is an Occitan surname pronounced in Afrikaan as. She grew up on her parents’ farm in benoni, near Johannesburg. She attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path.
In 1994, Theron flew to Los Angeles, intending to work in the film industry. During the initial months there, she lived with her mother in a motel with the USD 300 budget that her mother had given her. One day, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard restaurant to bank a few cheques, including one for rent, but it was rejected because it was out-of-state. She lived from paycheck to paycheck to the point of stealing bread from a basket in a restaurant to survive. 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, such as The Burning Plain, Dark Places, and Long Shot. She has been honored with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She also received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman’s comedy-dramas Young Adult and Tully, and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell, receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last. She won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for The Cider House Rules. Theron became a U.S. citizen in 2009, but retained her South Africa citizenship. In 2010, she moved to Miami to live with her mom.
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