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Charlize Theron born August 7, 1975) is a South African actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She became an American citizen in 2007.

She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young, The Devil's Advocate, and The Cider House Rules. She received critical acclaim and an Academy Award for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster, for which she became the first African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for her performance in North Country.

At the age of 16, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local competition. She went to New York with Pauline's Model Management. She decided to remain after her contract ended, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career path when Theron was 19.

Unable to dance, Theron flew to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket her mother bought her. During her early months there, she went to a bank to cash a check her mother had sent her to help with the rent. When the teller refused to cash it, Theron immediately started a shouting match with her. Afterwards, a talent agent in line behind her handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to some casting agents and also an acting school. She later fired him as her manager after he kept sending her scripts for films similar to Showgirls and Species.After eight months in the city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III (1995). Larger roles in widely released Hollywood films followed, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She glossed the cover of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus".

After appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004,as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award.She is the first African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.The Oscar win pushed her to The Hollywood Reporter's 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood; earning $10,000,000 for both her subsequent films, North Country and Æon Flux, she ranked seventh, behind Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicole Kidman.

On September 30, 2005, Theron received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux.Additionally, Theron received Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her lead performance in the drama North Country. Ms. magazine also honored her for this performance with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue.

In 2005, Theron portrayed Rita, Michael Bluth's (Jason Bateman) love interest, on the third season of Fox's critically-acclaimed television series Arrested Development.She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role of Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

In 2007, Esquire named her the Sexiest Woman Alive.

In 2008, Theron was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year. That year she also starred with Will Smith in Hancock, a movie that grossed $227.9M in the U.S.A. and $396.4M internationally,and in late 2008 she was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

On November 10, 2008, TV Guide reported that Theron will star in the film adaptation of The Danish Girl alongside Nicole Kidman. Theron will play Gerda Wegener, wife of Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe (Kidman), the world's first known person to undergo sex reassignment surgery.In October 2009, Theron was cast to star in a sequel to the Mad Max films, titled Mad Max: Road Fury, which will start filming in Aust 2010.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes

1995 Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest Young Woman Uncredited

1996 2 Days in the Valley Helga Svelgen

That Thing You Do! Tina Powers

1997 Hollywood Confidential Sally TV film

Trial and Error Billie Tyler

The Devil's Advocate Mary Ann Lomax

1998 Celebrity Supermodel

Mighty Joe Young Jill Young Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

1999 The Astronaut's Wife Jillian Armacost

The Cider House Rules Candy Kendall Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Movie

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

2000 Reindeer Games Ashley Mercer

The Yards Erica Stoltz

The Legend of Bagger Vance Adele Invergordon

Men of Honor Gwen Sunday

2001 Sweet November Sara Deever

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Laura Kensington

15 Minutes Rose Heam

2002 Trapped Karen Jennings

Waking Up in Reno Candy Kirkendall

2003 The Italian Job Stella Bridger

Monster Aileen Wuornos Academy Award for Best Actress

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature

Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture

Silver Bear for Best Actress (tied with Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria full of Grace)

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Irish Film & Television Award for Best International Actress

2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Britt Ekland Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Head in the Clouds Gilda Bessé

2005 North Country Josey Aimes Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture

Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Æon Flux Æon Flux

2007 In the Valley of Elah Det. Emily Sanders

2008 Sleepwalking Joleen Also producer

Hancock Mary

Battle in Seattle Ella Stuart Townsend directing

2009 The Burning Plain Sylvia Also producer

The Road Wife Post-production

Astro Boy Narrator 'Our Friends'