Charlize Theron

Acting · 11.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: August 7, 1975
From: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
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Biography

Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZ THERR-ən; Afrikaans: [ʃarˈlis ˈtrɔn]; born August 7, 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.

Works

77 films

The Odyssey

20268.0

Apex

20266.9

Mad Max: Fury Road

20157.6

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

20227.2

Fast X

20237.0

Prometheus

20126.6

The Devil's Advocate

19977.5

The Italian Job

20036.8

The Fate of the Furious

20176.9

Atomic Blonde

20176.4

The Road

20097.0

20217.0

Snow White and the Huntsman

20126.0

The Old Guard 2

20255.9

Æon Flux

20055.6

The Huntsman: Winter's War

20166.3

Long Shot

20196.7

The Old Guard

20207.1

The Addams Family

20196.6

A Million Ways to Die in the West

20146.1

Astro Boy

20096.3

Hancock

20086.4

Kubo and the Two Strings

20167.6

Men of Honor

20007.5

The School for Good and Evil

20227.0

The Cider House Rules

19997.1

The Yards

20006.2

15 Minutes

20015.9

Sweet November

20016.9

Bombshell

20196.8

Young Adult

20115.8

The Addams Family 2

20216.9

That Thing You Do!

19966.9

Dark Places

20155.9

Monster

20037.2

Mighty Joe Young

19986.3

Celebrity

19986.0

The Astronaut's Wife

19995.6

North Country

20057.3

Tully

20186.8

Reindeer Games

20005.7

In the Valley of Elah

20076.8

Trapped

20026.2

The Legend of Bagger Vance

20006.6

The Odyssey: The Making of an Epic

20266.5

Gringo

20185.9

2 Days in the Valley

19966.2

Head in the Clouds

20045.9

The Burning Plain

20086.6

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

20016.6

The Last Face

20175.5

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

19954.8

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

20046.6

Waking Up in Reno

20025.1

It’s a Mad Max World

20256.8

Battle in Seattle

20076.3

High & Low – John Galliano

20246.2

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

20227.1

Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road

20176.9

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

20127.0

Hollywood Confidential

19974.4

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

20238.3

Trial and Error

19975.5

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

201410.0

Sleepwalking

20086.1

Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony

20266.5

Jane

2026

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

20066.5

Tyrant

2026

Grace Kelly: The Missing Millions

20225.5

Dance Parents

2026

Wikus and Charlize

20106.0

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

20015.0

Mysteria

2026

Angels in Exile

20166.0

Six Clean Kills

2026