Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron Biography:

Charlize Theron, the hot, blonde, beautiful bikini babe is a South African actress, film producer and former fashion model and she was born in Benoni, Transvaal Province, South Africa on August 7, 1975 to her parents (as a only single child) of Gerda Jacoba Aletta and Charles Jacobus Theron. The Charlize Theron having charming beauty grew up on a farm outside of Benoni, a town some 25 kilometres east of Johannesburg. She was named after her father, Charles. Charles was of French descent, while her mother Gerda hailed from German stock - both parents, though, were Afrikaans, born and raised in South Africa. Charlize Theron rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young, The Devil's Advocate and The Cider House Rules. 

Early life and Career

Although fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans. Her father died on June 21, 1991, after he was shot by Theron's mother; after Theron's father, who suffered from alcoholism, physically attacked her mother and threatened both women while being drunk. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense and her mother faced no charges.

It was a great way to grow up in a place surrounding with nature. On the farm she was surrounded by animals, both stray and domesticated. Theron would learn an earthy sympathy for them that would, in later years; we can this sympathy in her work as she is still working for animal charities.

Theron attended Putfontein Primary School (Laerskool Putfontein). At the age of 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg.

Charlize Theron has entered in the field of modeling at the age of 16. Theron travelled to Milan on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local modeling competition. She went to New York with Pauline's Model Management. She decided to remain after her contract ended, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career path when Theron was 19.

Unable to dance, Theron flew to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket her mother bought her.

After eight months in the Los Angeles city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III (1995). Her first breakout role was a supporting role but significant part in 2 Days in the Valley but larger roles in widely released Hollywood films followed, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998) and The Cider House Rules (1999). The gorgeous Charlize Theron was on the cover of the January 1999 issue of popular magazine Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus".

After appearing in a few notable films, Charlize Theron made her role in Monster (2003) as serial killer Aileen Wuornos. For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004. She has also wins the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award for the same film. Remarkably she is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress. Charlize Theron she was in the  list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood of 2006; earning $10,000,000 for both her subsequent films, North Country and Aeon Flux, she ranked seventh, behind Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renee Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. On September 30, 2005, Theron received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On December 4, 2009, Theron co-presented the draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of South African origin. She also appeared in some notable films like The Cider House Rules (1999); The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Italian Job (2003).

Theron resides in the Los Angeles area. Her former partner of almost a decade, Irish actor Stuart Townsend, has moved to their co-owned property in Malibu. The couple split up in January 2010. Theron became a naturalised citizen of the United States in May 2007.