Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron born August 7 1975 is a South AfricanAmerican actress and producer One of the worlds highestpaid actresses she is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award a Screen Actors Guild 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 Devils 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 Oscar in an acting category 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 Huntsman Winters War 2016 The Fate of the Furious 2017 Atomic Blonde 2017 The Old Guard 2020 and F9 2021 She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitmans comedydramas Young Adult 2011 and Tully 2018 and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell 2019 receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia