Charlize Theron ( shar- LEEZ THERR -? n ;
Theron received critical acclaim for his role as serial killer Aileen Wuornos on Monster, where he won the Academy Award, Silver Bear, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, among other awards, the first South Africans to win an Academy Award in the main acting category. She received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for her performance in drama-themed North Country (2005), and a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in the Jason Reitman Young Adults 2011).
Theron moved into production in the late 2000s. He founded and owns a production company of Denver and Delilah Productions. He has produced many films, many of which he has a major role in, including The Burning Plain (2008) and Dark Places (2015). Theron became a US citizen in 2007, while retaining South African citizenship. In 2016, Left named her in the list of the most influential people every year Time 100 .
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Theron was born in Benoni, in the Transvaal Province (present Province of Gauteng) in South Africa, the only son of Gerda (nÃÆ' Â © e Maritz) and Charles Theron (born November 27, 1947). Second Boer Warman Danie Theron is his great-great-uncle. He came from an Afrikaner family, and his ancestors included the Netherlands as well as France and Germany; his French ancestors were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. "Theron" is the Occitan family name (originally spelled ThÃÆ' Â © ron) pronounced in Afrikaans as [tr? N] .
He grew up on his parents' farm at Benoni, near Johannesburg. On June 21, 1991, Theron's father, an alcoholic, threatened a teenage Charlize and his mother while drunk, physically assaulting her. Theron's mother then shot and killed him. The shooting was legally decided to defend himself, and his mother was not facing charges.
Theron attended Putfontein Elementary School (Laerskool Putfontein), a period in which he had said that he was not "fit." At thirteen, Theron was sent to boarding school and began his studies at the National School of Art in Johannesburg. Although Theron speaks fluent English, his first language is Afrikaans.
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Careers
Initial work
Despite seeing himself as a dancer, Theron at the age of 16 won a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in Salerno and with his mother moved to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a modeling year across Europe, he and his mother moved to the US, both in New York City and Miami. In New York, he attended Joffrey Ballet School, where he was trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed his career path. As Theron recalled in 2008:
I went to New York for three days to make a model, and then I spent the winter in New York in a basement apartment without a friend's window. I went bankrupt, I took a class at Joffrey Ballet, and my knees gave up. I realized I could not dance anymore, and I was severely depressed. My mother came from South Africa and said, 'Either you know what to do next or you go home, because you can sulk in South Africa'.
At 19, Theron flew to Los Angeles, with a one-way ticket his mother bought for him, intending to work in the film industry. During the first months there, he went to the bank of Hollywood Boulevard to cash a check sent by his mother to help pay the rent. When the teller refuses to release it, Theron is involved in a shouting match with him. After seeing this, the talent agent John Crosby, waiting behind him, handed his business card and then introduced it to the casting agency as well as the acting school. He then fired him as his manager after he continued to submit his script for a movie similar to Showgirls and Species . After a few months in the city, he made his film debut with a non-speaking role in the horror film Children Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995). Her first speaking role was a supportive but significant and considerate part as a murderer in 2 Days in the Valley (1996). Larger roles in the widely-released Hollywood films followed, and his career expanded in the late 1990s with box-office success such as The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and Cider House Rules (1999). She was on the cover of January 1999 edition of Vanity Fair as "White Hot Venus". She also appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine magazine in May 1999, in a photo taken several years before when she was an unfamiliar model; Theron was unable to sue the magazine for publishing it without his consent.
Success and hiatus
She starred in five movies in 2000: Reindeer Games , The Yards , The Legend of Bagger Vance , Men of Honor >, and Sweet November and was considered a new "It girl". Theron has said this period in his career that, "I continue to find myself in a place where the directors will support me but the studio does not. [I start] a love affair with directors, whom I really admire, I find I also make a very bad movie. Reindeer Games is not a good movie, but I do it because I love John Frankenheimer. "
After appearing in other films, Theron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert calls it "one of the greatest shows in the history of cinema". For her role, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award. He was the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress. Oscar's win pushed her to the 2006 Hollywood Hollywood list, the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, earning $ 10 million for her next films, North Country and Aeon Flux, he ranks seventh, behind Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renà ©  © Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. Askmen also named it the women's most wanted number one in 2003.
In 2005, Theron plays Rita, Michael Bluth's love interest (Jason Bateman), in the third season of the Fox television series Arrested Development. She also received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Primetime Emmy Award for her role at Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. On September 30th, Theron received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same year, she starred in the fictitiously financially flawed science fiction film Aeon Flux. She also received a 2005 Spike Video Game Award for Best Appearance by a Human Woman for a voiceover job within the Aeon Flux video game. Theron is listed for the role of Susan Storm in the movie Fantastic Four (2005).
Theron received the Best Actress Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for her main appearances in the drama North Country . Ms. The magazine also honored it for this show with feature articles in the 2005 edition of Fall. She was supposed to star in a screen adaptation of Mark Richard's Short Under the World short story, and it had to be directed by Kimberly Peirce and produced by Theron Denver and Delilah Productions (named after two Theron dogs). Theron has had the right for many years. He is also supposed to star in a film adaptation of the Jinx graphic novel , but no projects have been produced yet.
In 2008, Theron was named Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year. That year he also starred with Will Smith in the film superhero Hancock, and in late 2008 he was asked to be UN secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General.
On December 4, 2009, Theron participated in a draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of South African nationality or ancestry. During practice he drew an Irish ball instead of France as a joke at FIFA's expense, referring to Thierry Henry's handball controversy in a play-off match between France and Ireland. This action is quite worrying FIFA for fear he might do it again in front of a live global audience.
Recent work
After a two-year absence from the big screen, Theron returned to the spotlight in 2011 with Young Adult . Directed by Jason Reitman, the film is critically acclaimed, especially for Theron performances. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and several other awards. Theron then plays Evil Queen Ravenna, Snow White's evil stepmother, in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman, which started production in 2011 and was released in 2012. In 2011, she described the process of becoming a character in the movie:
When I am looking for character, for me it is easy, because once I say yes to something, I become very obsessed - and I have an obsessive nature in general. How I want to play it starts at that moment. It's a very quiet internal experience. I think about [the characters] all the time - I observe things, I see things and ask things [in my head], everything is tailored to what I'm going to do. I am obsessed with the human condition. You read the manuscript and become obsessed with the [character] traits, the habits. As the camera spins, it's time to do my work, to do the honest truth. You can not do that part of a work [character-creation] when you [in the middle] make a movie. At least I can not.
In 2012, he starred in the science fiction movie Ridley Scott Prometheus . In 2013, Vulture/NYMag named it The Precious 68 Star in Hollywood said: "We're delighted Theron can stay on the list within a year when he's not out with anything... any actress who has that kind of skill, beauty, and ferocity must have a permanent place in Hollywood. "
In 2015, Theron plays Libby Day, the main character in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Dark Places, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Theron also has producer credits. In the same year, Theron also starred as Imperator Furiosa at Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), in front of Tom Hardy.
Theron imitated his role as Queen of Ravenna in the Huntsman's fantasy epic: Winter's War, a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman . The film was released on April 22, 2016. Theron also starred in The Last Face, Kubo and Two Strings, and Brain on Fire .
In 2017, Theron starred in The Fate of the Furious , where he plays Cipher, which is the main antagonist of the entire series The Fast and the Furious , and in Atomic Blonde, an adaptation of The Coldest City's graphic novel, directed by David Leitch.
In 2018, she starred in the comedy Tully, directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, and co-starred in Gringo's crime movie.
Other businesses
Activism
The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach (CTAOP) project was created in 2007 by Theron, the next year named as UN Peacekeeper, in an effort to support African youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The mission of CTAOP is to help African youth stay safe from HIV/AIDS. The project is committed to supporting organizations involving communities that address the main drivers of the disease. Although CTAOP's geographic coverage is Sub-Saharan Africa, the main concentration is largely Charlize's country of origin in South Africa. The CTAOP approach is based on the belief that community-based organizations in the field understand their community's social and structural relationships better than anyone. By supporting these organizations through the provision of grants, networks and highlighting their work, CTAOP allows communities to mobilize and empower themselves to prevent HIV.
In 2008, Theron was appointed UN peace envoy. In his quote, Ban Ki-Moon said of Theron "You have consistently dedicated yourself to improving the lives of women and children in South Africa, and to prevent and stop violence against women and girls." He recorded public service announcements in 2014 as part of their Stop Rape Now program.
In December 2009, CTAOP and TOMS Shoes partnered to make limited edition unisex shoes. The boots are made of vegan material and are inspired by African baobab trees, silhouettes embroidered on blue and orange canvas. Ten thousand pairs were given to poor children, and part of the proceeds went to CTAOP.
Theron is involved in women's rights organizations and has lined up in pro-choice demonstrations. Theron is also a proponent of animal rights and an active member of PETA. She appears in PETA ads for her anti-fur campaign.
Theron was a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended parades and rallies to support him in Fresno, California, on May 30, 2009. He publicly declared that he refused to marry until same-sex marriage became lawful in the United States, saying: "I do not want to get married because now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have the same rights.I think it would be exactly the same if we were married, but for me to through such ceremonies, because I have so many friends who are gay and lesbians who are desperate to get married, that I will not be able to sleep with myself. "Theron further outlined his position in a June 2011 interview on Piers Morgan Tonight . He stated: "I have a problem with the fact that our government has not enough step to make this federal, to make [gay marriage] legal. I think everyone has that right."
In March 2014, CTAOP was one of the charities benefiting from the annual Fame and Philanthropy fundraiser on the night of the 86th Academy Awards. Theron is a distinguished guest with Halle Berry and keynote speaker James Cameron.
By 2015, Theron signed an open letter that ONE Campaign has collected signatures for; the letter was directed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as G7 heads in Germany and the AU in South Africa, which will begin to prioritize development financing before the main UN summit in September 2015 set new development goals for generations.
Support
After signing an agreement with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced the Estonian model Tiiu Kuik as a spokesperson in the ad "J'adore" by Christian Dior. From October 2005 to December 2006, Theron earned US $ 3 million for the use of his image in print media advertising campaigns worldwide for Raymond Weil watches. In February 2006, he and his corporate entity were sued by Weil for breaching the contract. The lawsuit was settled on November 4, 2008.
Personal life
In 2007, Theron became a naturalized United States citizen, while retaining South African citizenship.
Theron has two children, both of whom are adopted. In March 2012, he adopted a boy. In July 2015, he adopted a girl. He lives in Los Angeles.
Relationships
Theron started a relationship with Irish actor Stuart Townsend after meeting him on the set of the 2002 film Trapped. The couple live together in Los Angeles and Ireland. Theron split from Townsend in January 2010.
In December 2013, Theron began dating American actor Sean Penn. Both announced their engagement in December 2014. Theron ended their relationship in June 2015.
Health issues
As a child, Theron suffers from jaundice which causes dental problems. He said in an interview that "I did not have teeth until I was 11. I have this fangs because I was suffering from jaundice when I was a kid and I used so many antibiotics so my teeth were rotting They had to cut it So I never had a tooth baby. "
While filming the Berlin Flux, Theron suffered a herniated disc around his neck, caused by a fall while filming a series of rear handsprings. That required him to wear a neck brace for a month. In July 2009, he was diagnosed with a serious stomach virus, allegedly contracted while abroad. While filming The Road, Theron injured his vocal cords during a scene of labor screams.
Theron and his mother, Gerda Maritz, have trouble sleeping. For this, they each tried edible marijuana-laced to see if it would help. The newspaper's headline then identifies his mother as a "weed supplier." However, Theron has since stopped using marijuana.
Movieography
Awards and nominations
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Charlize Theron at EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Charlize Theron on IMDb
- Charlize Theron at AllMovie
- Charlize Theron in Who's Who of South Africa
- Charlize Theron in AskMen
- Charlize Theron at Emmys.com
- Charlize Theron (Aveleyman)
- @CharlizeAfrica (Verified Twitter Account)
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