1975-08-07 ( 49 years old ) in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZTHERR-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.
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Movies
The Odyssey
2026-07-15
The Old Guard 2
2025-07-01
High & Low – John Galliano
2024-03-08
Fast X
2023-05-17
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023-04-26
The School for Good and Evil
2022-10-19
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022-05-04
The Addams Family 2
2021-10-01
F9
2021-05-19
The Old Guard
2020-07-10
Bombshell
2019-12-13
The Addams Family
2019-10-10
Long Shot
2019-05-02
Tully
2018-05-04
Gringo
2018-03-08
Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
2017-08-01
Atomic Blonde
2017-07-26
The Fate of the Furious
2017-04-12
The Last Face
2017-01-11
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016-08-18
Angels in Exile
2016-05-25
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016-04-06
Take Flight
2015-12-10
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015-05-13
Dark Places
2015-04-08
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014-07-18
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014-05-22
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012-10-11
Prometheus
2012-05-30
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012-05-30
Young Adult
2011-11-11
Wikus and Charlize
2010-04-01
The Road
2009-11-25
Astro Boy
2009-10-15
The Burning Plain
2008-11-07
Hancock
2008-07-01
Sleepwalking
2008-03-14
In the Valley of Elah
2007-09-14
Battle in Seattle
2007-09-07
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006-06-13
Æon Flux
2005-11-30
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
North Country
2005-02-12
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004-10-01
Head in the Clouds
2004-04-29
Monster
2003-12-24
The Italian Job
2003-05-30
Waking Up in Reno
2002-12-13
Trapped
2002-09-20
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001-08-05
15 Minutes
2001-03-01
Sweet November
2001-02-16
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000-11-02
Men of Honor
2000-09-13
The Yards
2000-04-27
Reindeer Games
2000-02-25
The Cider House Rules
1999-12-17
The Astronaut's Wife
1999-08-27
Mighty Joe Young
1998-12-25
Celebrity
1998-09-07
The Devil's Advocate
1997-10-17
Trial and Error
1997-05-30
Hollywood Confidential
1997-04-14
That Thing You Do!
1996-10-04
2 Days in the Valley
1996-09-11
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
1995-09-12
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