Charlize Theron was born 7th August in 1975 in South Africa. She is a South African and American actress, fashion model and a producer. Charlize has starred in many Hollywood films, like the Devil's Advocate in 1997, the Mighty Joe Young in 1998, The Cider House Rules in 1999, The Italian Job in 2003, and Hancock in the year 2008. In 2014 she starred in A Million Ways to Die in the West and in 2015 she starred in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Career and Success
Theron got critical praise for her portrayal as a serial killer as Aileen Wuornos in the Monster of 2003, for which she also won the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Silver Bear Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for being the best Actress among many other accolades. She became the first South African to win the Academy Award in a great acting category. She further received the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award nominations for her great performance in sexual harassment-themed drama of North Country in the year 2005 and a Golden Globe Award nomination for her great performance in the film Young Adult by Jason Reitman in 2011 .
Charlize Theron in Monster
In 2007 Theron became a citizen of the U.S., while maintaining her citizenship of South African. Late into the 2000s, she shifted to television and film production. She produced a documentary called East of Havana in 2006. She also had production credits on films such as The Burning Plain of 2008 and the Dark Places of 2015, and she starred in both of them. She played the role of Queen Ravenna in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman and also Meredith Vickers in the Prometheus, both of which were great successes of box offices. She will reappear in her role of the Queen Ravenna in the 2016 film (The Huntsman: Winter's War).
Queen Ravenna
Latest news and rumors
Following a 3-year break from the big screens, Theron returned to spotlight in the year 2011 with the movie Young Adult which was directed by Jason Reitman. The film received a lot of praise especially for the performance of Theron. She got nominated for the Golden Globe Award and many other awards of high profile.
She starred in the science fiction film of Ridley Scott known as Prometheus in the year 2013, Vulture (NYMag) termed her as the 68th Most Valuable Star of Hollywood saying, "We’re just happy that Theron can stay on the list in a year when she didn’t come out with anything … any actress who’s got that kind of skill, beauty, and ferocity ought to have a permanent place in Hollywood." The magazine quoted.
Theron played the role of Libby Day in 2015. She was the lead character in the adaptation film of the Gillian Flynn’s novel Dark Places. The film was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Charlize Theron had a producer credit in the same year. In the same 2015, she also starred as Imperator Furiosa in the film Mad Max: Fury Road along Tom Hardy.
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
Charlize starred in the epic film The Huntsman: Winter's War which was a prequel of the Snow White and the Huntsman. She will be taking her role of Queen Ravenna and the film will be released on 22nd April in 2016. She is also currently set to star in a novel adaptation film to be directed by David Leitch. The graphic novel to be used is the Coldest City and it already started its production in November of 2015.