
Charlize Theron
Department: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlize Theron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Fast X
2023

Monster
2003

Reindeer Games
2000

The Cider House Rules
1999

The Devil's Advocate
1997

Angels in Exile
2016

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004

Sweet November
2001

15 Minutes
2001

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001

The Astronaut's Wife
1999

The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000

Waking Up in Reno
2002

The Road
2009

In the Valley of Elah
2007

Æon Flux
2005

Men of Honor
2000

Hancock
2008

Trapped
2002

Celebrity
1998

That Thing You Do!
1996

Mighty Joe Young
1998

The Italian Job
2003

2 Days in the Valley
1996

North Country
2005

Battle in Seattle
2007

Sleepwalking
2008

Astro Boy
2009

Trial and Error
1997

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023

Head in the Clouds
2004

The Yards
2000

Prometheus
2012

Young Adult
2011

Snow White and the Huntsman
2012

Jane
—

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012

Dark Places
2015

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022

A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014

The Burning Plain
2008

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022

The Last Face
2017

Wikus and Charlize
2010

The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
1995

Kubo and the Two Strings
2016

Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005

Gringo
2018

Atomic Blonde
2017

High & Low – John Galliano
2024

Mad Max: Fury Road
2015

The Fate of the Furious
2017

Tully
2018

Apex
2026

Hollywood Confidential
1997

Long Shot
2019

Bombshell
2019

The Addams Family
2019

F9
2021

The Old Guard
2020

Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
2017

The Addams Family 2
2021

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001

The School for Good and Evil
2022

The Old Guard 2
2025

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006

The Odyssey
2026

Dance Parents
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Grace Kelly: The Missing Millions
2022

Mysteria
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It’s a Mad Max World
2025

Tyrant
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Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony
2026

This Morning
1988

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Daily Show
1996

Today
1952

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The Early Show
1999

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Colbert Report
2005

The Colbert Report
2005

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Arrested Development
2003

A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019

The Oscars
1953

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008

Hyperdrive
2019

Rove
1999

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992

The Grand Tour
2016

Chelsea
2016

The Orville
2017

The Drew Barrymore Show
2020

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Leute heute
1997

The Boys
2019

RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010

The Reichen Show
2005

Hot Ones
2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Goldene Kamera
1984

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Bambi
1948

Desus & Mero
2019

The Oscars
1953

Entertainment Tonight
1981

The View
1997

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

Saturday Night Live
1975

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

The Studio
2025

Hot Ones Versus
2024

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Elle Style Awards
1997