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Charlize Theron
46 FOLLOWERS • 80 CREDITS • AUG 7, 1975 • 48
Biography
Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid 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 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 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: Winter's 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 Reitman's comedy-dramas 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.
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Known For
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Saturday Night Live
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Graham Norton Show
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RuPaul's Drag Race
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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The Oscars
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Today
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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A Little Late with Lilly Singh
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The Early Show
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Chelsea
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The Colbert Report
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
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The Daily Show
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Arrested Development
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The Orville
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Desus & Mero
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Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
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The Grand Tour
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Hyperdrive
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The Boys
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Home Movie: The Princess Bride
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Fast X
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F9
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Fast X: Part 2
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Astro Boy
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The Fate of the Furious
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The School for Good and Evil
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Men of Honor
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The Devil's Advocate
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Gringo
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The Road
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Snow White and the Huntsman
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Prometheus
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The Addams Family
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Sweet November
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Doctor Strange 3
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Cider House Rules
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Kubo and the Two Strings
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
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The Italian Job
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The Astronaut's Wife
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The Huntsman: Winter's War
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The Addams Family 2
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Hancock
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The Old Guard 2
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Jane
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Atomic Blonde
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Æon Flux
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Atomic Blonde 2
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Long Shot
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Young Adult
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The Old Guard
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Monster
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Bombshell
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