Charlize Theron, American model and actress, born 7 August 1975 in Gauteng, South Africa.
Biography and life story of celebrity in English.
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Name in English: Charlize Theron
Nationality: South Africa – United States
Language: English
Religion: Judaism
Date of birth: 7 August 1975
Place of birth: Gauteng, South Africa
Age: 47 years (in 2022)
Astrological Sign: Leo
Profession: Actress, Model, Film Producer
Genre: Hollywood Movies
Years of activity: 1995 – present
Sons: 1
Father: Charles Jacob Theron
Mother: Gerda Jacob Alita
Biography, Life story
Charlize Theron (“Charlize Theron”) was born on August 7, 1975, in the city of Peone in the South African province of Transvaal. The only child in her family, her father Charles Jacob Theron (1947-1991), was from French and Dutch roots, and her mother, Gerda Jacob Alita (1953), was from German roots. Theron’s parents owned a farm and a road construction company, Theron’s childhood was at her parents’ factory in Benoni, near Johannesburg, where she studied at primary school and was communicating with workers at her parents’ factory from various African peoples. You master 26 local languages and dialects and you master English like Mother African. The plant is located in the wild, which has had a significant impact on its decision to become an animal rights activist. At the age of 6, she began attending worn lessons. At the age of 13, she was sent to boarding school and started training at the National School of Art in Johannesburg. At the age of 15, she witnessed the death of her father, who had been an alcoholic, forcing her mother to shoot him for self-defence. Later Charlize confirmed during a press meeting that her father had died in a car accident.
Charlize Theron was published at the end of 1990, thanks to her acting in films (Two Days in the Valley, Joe Yang Forces, Devil’s Lawyer, the Laws of Sider’s Home). She played the Ripper in the 2003 film Monster. At the age of 16, Charlize Theron participated in a modelling competition and managed to win. She later participated in a global fashion show competition in Busitano, Italy, and signed an annual contract with a modeling agency in Milan. During this year, Charles traveled all over Europe, after being sent to New York, she finally decided to settle down, and after her contract expired she joined the Joffrey School of Ballet Dancing, and in her spare time away from school she worked as a model. However, because of her knee injury at the age of 19, she had to give up the dance career that was her biggest dream. She went to Los Angeles with a one-way ticket, which her mother bought her. She spent the first few months at the Zaheed Hotel. Charlize’s life changed when she went to the bank to cash a check sent to her by her mother in the amount of US $500, thereby paying for her house rent, but failed to do so as the local teller refused to pay a check from outside the United States because of caution. Theron responded by causing scandal, vigorously expressing her indignation and resentment in both English and African, standing in the same class as John Crosby as an undertaker representing the interests of some celebrities who cared about her unexpectedly, later presenting him to several casting agencies, and also a acting school where she was eventually able to get rid of South Africa’s accent. A few years later Theron had a fight with Crosby, always showing her scripts with trivial content such as Show Girls. She later took part in the TV film Hollywood Confidential as Sally Bowen, who works undercover in a strip club at which time she made a reputation as one of the promising young actresses. She first played a dangerous role in the crime film 2 Days in the Valley. Her second role in That Thing You Do was directed by Tom Hanks. She acted in another artwork, Trial and Error.
Charlize Theron’s first major act was her role in Devil’s Lawyer in front of stars Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. She performed a big role for me as a popular model who suffered from a rare illness in Woody Allen’s “Fame” opposite Kenneth Branah. She later starred in the film Mighty Joe Young, which was filmed at the Walt Disney Company. In 1999, the actress starred in the film “The Astronaut’s Wife”, embodied by actor Johnny Depp. Her next role was in Lasse Hallstrom’s Sider House Laws. And then I acted in Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck. She played a drug addict in The Yards. She played the wife of an alcoholic in the film Men of Honor. She received an offer to star as the daughter of a man on the brink of collapse because all his money was invested in building a golf club in Robert Redford’s Bagger Vance. As a cancer patient in the 2001 film “Sweet November” with Keanu Reeves.
List of works – Filmography
Films
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995), 2 Days in the Valley, That Thing You Do! (1996), Trial and Error, The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Celebrity, Mighty Joe Young (1998), The Astronaut’s Wife, The Cider House Rules (1999), Reindeer Games, The Yards, Men of Honor, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Sweet November, 15 Minutes, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Trapped, Waking Up in Reno (2002), The Italian Job, Monster (2003), Head in the Clouds (2004), North Country, Æon Flux (2005), East of Havana (2006), In the Valley of Elah, Battle in Seattle (2007), Sleepwalking, Hancock, The Burning Plain (2008), The Road, Astro Boy (2009), Young Adult (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman, Prometheus (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), Dark Places, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Huntsman: Winter’s War, The Last Face, Kubo and the Two Strings, Brain on Fire (2016), Fast 8, The Coldest City (2017).
Television
Hollywood Confidential (1997), Saturday Night Live (2000), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Arrested Development (2005), Robot Chicken (2006), Hatfields & McCoys (2013), Saturday Night Live (2014).
Awards and Honors
Charles Theron ran for several prestigious awards and won some of them:
– Nominated for the Oscar several times (2003, 2006).
– Won the Best Lead Actress Oscar in 2003 for Monster. She is the first African-born artist to receive an Oscar for performing key roles.
– Nominated for Golden Globe multiple times (2004, 2005, 2006).
– Won the Golden Globe in the 2004 Best Actress category for Monster.
