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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron's biography

Charlize Aletta Theron is 47 years old actor born at Benoni. She was born on Thursday 7th of August 1975. Charlize is often nicknamed as Charlie, Charlize Theron. According to year of birth 1975 she belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 7th of August means Charlize is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

Charlize is native afrikaans speaker. She is white south african. She is citizen of South Africa. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know Charlize also as model, film producer, television actor, film actor. Charlize is recently known as voice actor. She received Academy Award for Best Actress Monster in 2004

Charlize Theron's family

She has 1 son and 1 daughter

Charlize Theron's son: Jackson Theron

Charlize Theron's son's name is Jackson Theron.

Charlize Theron's daughter: August Theron

Charlize Theron's daughter's name is August Theron.

Detailed informations about her schools

She studied high school - The National School of the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Charlize Theron's career

Her main focus is to be actor. Charlize is famous thanks to The Devil's Advocate, Sweet November, Monster, Mad Max: Fury Road.. You could see Charlize also in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Is Charlize Theron gay ?

Charlize is known to be straight.

Charlize Theron's boyfriends

Sean Penn

Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have been together since 2013 for 2 years. He is known as film actor. Charlize´s boyfriend was born on Wednesday 17th of August 1960 in Santa Monica.

Stuart Townsend

Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have been together since 2001 for 9 years. He is known as actor. Her boyfriend was born on Friday 15th of December 1972 in Howth.

Awards and competitions

Charlize Theron's Awards

  • She gained 30 pounds to play Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). She was awarded with the Best Actress Oscar for her performance of the role on what would have been Aileen's 48th birthday: February 29, 2004.
  • In 2005 she was the first person to sign on to be a presenter at the 77th Annual Academy Awards.
  • She is the second South African-born person to win an Academy Award--Ted Moore was the first. Basil Rathbone was the first South African-born actor to be nominated, followed by Cecil Kellaway. Theron was the first South African-born woman to win an Oscar.
  • Received the "Decade of Hotness" award from Spike TV (Guy's Choice).
  • On April 24, 2012, she received America's National Association of Theatre Owners - Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award, at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
  • Was the 125th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster (2003) at The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) on February 29, 2004.
  • Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for her role as Marlo in Tully (2018), but lost to Olivia Colman for The Favourite (2018).

Charlize Theron's Rankings

  • Ranked #4 in the 2001 FHM Taiwan list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
  • Ranked #15 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
  • Ranked #4 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
  • Ranked #15 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.
  • Ranked #11 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2008 list.
  • Ranked #24 on the 2007 Ask men Australia top 99 "most desirable" women list. She was ranked #6 the previous year in 2006.
  • Ranked #3 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2005.
  • Ranked #1 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2003.
  • Ranked #20 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
  • Ranked one of the "most desirable" women on Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2013.
  • Ranked #5 on the list of "Hollywood's Top-Earning Actresses in 2012" by Forbes magazine. Her income between May 2011 and May 2012 was estimated to be $18 million.
  • Ranked #24 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2014 list.

Charlize Theron's Nominations

  • She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work North Country in 2005
  • Charlize was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Monster in 2004

What else you don't know about Charlize Theron ?

Charlize´s middle name is Aletta.

What Charlize Theron has done for a first time

  • Her first language is Afrikaans (South African Dutch). She speaks fluent English as her second language.
  • In 2005 she was the first person to sign on to be a presenter at the 77th Annual Academy Awards.
  • She is the second South African-born person to win an Academy Award--Ted Moore was the first. Basil Rathbone was the first South African-born actor to be nominated, followed by Cecil Kellaway. Theron was the first South African-born woman to win an Oscar.
  • Her first language is Afrikaans and she did not become fluent in English until she came to the USA as a teenager. Consequently, American is her natural accent when she speaks English.
  • Her first modeling assignment was for the Afrikaans-language monthly women's magazine "Rooi Rose" (Red Rose) when she was the "New Model Today" winner in 1991.

Charlize Theron's quotes

  • [on the revelation that her mother shot and killed her father while he was in a drunken rage, which was ruled self-defense] I was always Mama's girl, and I always felt like her protector.
  • Women have conquered the world. And with everything we go through, it's about time we had a female president. I don't think we're that far away, but it should have happened already. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary Clinton runs - I really admire her.
  • I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
  • I think of myself as a highly sexual creature. I have to use that. I have no choice. I like it. I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
  • [on marriage] I'm happy for people who want to get married, but it's not my thing. I'm extremely happy in my relationship and I would love to have kids.
  • [on bad habits and guilty pleasures] Anything fried I'll take. Are you kidding me? I will fry my shoe and eat it.
  • Looks alone won't get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there's always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.
  • I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
  • I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
  • [on her mother shooting her father, who was in a drunken rage, which was ruled self-defense] You know, people drank. Some people drank more, but it was never considered that this might be a problem. It was just the way it was then.
  • As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
  • [responding to a reporter's question as to which side of the bed she sleeps on] The side that you're not on.
  • [responding to a question as to why she doesn't have kids] I actually have seven children no one knows about--in a cave. They can see Russia from their house, too.
  • [on her mother shooting her father] I don't think you can go through something like that and not kind of walk with it, hand in hand. But you try very hard to move on.
  • [when asked if beauty is a problem for her] No. But it seems to be a problem for journalists.
  • [after becoming a United States citizen in 2007] You're stuck with me now.
  • I think women are way more conflicted than men, and I think we come from a society that's very comfortable with the Madonna / whore complex, you know. We're either really good hookers or really good mothers.
  • I've never been a fan of labels. And I'm not a big fan of overly justifying bad behavior, or why people are the way they are. I think it's a cop-out. And I don't have a lot of empathy for that.
  • I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.
  • If you wouldn't wear your dog, please don't wear any fur.
  • Fur isn't necessary. It doesn't make sense to me to let these animals suffer for fashion.
  • I wasn't technically the greatest, but I succeeded and got lead roles because when I died, I died, and when I was spinning into madness, I was spinning into madness.
  • It's great fun when you have three people coming to your house, and one's doing your nails, one's doing your hair and one's doing your makeup. Two hours later, you look gorgeous. But that's not my life.
  • The people who inspire me are the ones who just live life and live it in a way that's good-natured. Do unto others what you want done unto yourself.
  • We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
  • I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
  • You go through situations that don't work out, and then all of a sudden you have this baby in your hands and you forget about all of that.
  • It bothers me that in this society, it's okay seeing a guy blow another's head off, but a child seeing Janet Jackson's boob at the Super Bowl is the worst thing that could happen. It's not the end of the world! It's just a breast!
  • [Looks] were never emphasized in the house I was raised in. I don't think my mom ever said, 'Isn't she a pretty girl?' She'd say, 'You should hear her sing. You should read this poem she wrote.' The praise was always about what I'd done, not how I looked.

Charlize Theron's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Charlize Theron looks. We will focus on Charlize´s height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. Charlize is tall as 5' 10" (178 cm). Charlize weights 128lbs (58 kg). Body build is slim. Charlize´s eyes are tinted blue. Her hair is shade of blonde. If you are really curious, you may find interesting her shoe size is 9.5.

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