Charlize Theron
South African-American actress and Academy Award-winning producer whose career spans three decades of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films.
Charlize Theron - Personal Information
- Date of Birth: August 7, 1975
- Place of Birth: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Producer, Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Creator
Biography
Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZ THERR-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.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Charlize Theron's most recent and notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Fast Forever (2028) as Cipher
- The Odyssey (2026) as Circe
- APEX (2026)
- Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony (2026)
- The Old Guard 2 (2025) as Andromache of Scythia / Andy
- It's a Mad Max World (2025) as Self
- The Studio (TV - 2025) as Charlize Theron
- High & Low – John Galliano (2024) as Self
- Hot Ones Versus (TV - 2024) as Self
- Fast X (2023) as Cipher
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