Charlize Theron ( shar-LEEZ THERR-ən ; [ 1 ] Afrikaans : [ ʃarˈlis ˈtrɔn ] ; [ 2 ] born 7 August 1975 ) [ 3 ] is a south african [ 4 ] and American actress and manufacturer. One of the populace ‘s highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient role of assorted accolades, including an Academy Award, a shield Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. [ 5 ] In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Theron came to external 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 depicting 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 act class. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused womanhood seeking justice in the drama North Country ( 2005 ). Theron has since starred in respective 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 Fate of the Furious ( 2017 ), Atomic Blonde ( 2017 ), and The Old Guard ( 2020 ). She besides received praise for playing disturb women in Jason Reitman ‘s comedy-dramas Young Adult ( 2011 ) and Tully ( 2018 ), and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographic drama Bombshell ( 2019 ), receiving a one-third Academy Award nomination for the last. Since the early on 2000s, Theron has ventured into movie production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a leading function, 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 painting leading on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
early life [edit ]
Theron was born in Benoni, in Transvaal Province ( Gauteng Province since 1994 ) of South Africa, the only child of road constructionists [ 6 ] Gerda ( born Maritz ) [ 7 ] : 16-18 and Charles Theron ( 27 November 1947 – 21 June 1991 ). [ 7 ] : 16-18, 34 moment Boer War military drawing card Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle. [ 7 ] : 14 She is from an Afrikaner kin, and her lineage includes Dutch equally well as French and German. Her french forebears were early Huguenots in South Africa. [ 7 ] : 14 “ Theron ” is an provencal surname ( in the first place spelled Théron ) pronounced in Afrikaans as [ trɔn ]. She grew up on her parents ‘ farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 21 June 1991, Theron ‘s father, an alcoholic, [ 8 ] threatened both teenaged Charlize and her beget while intoxicated, physically attacking her mother and firing a accelerator at both of them. [ 12 ] Theron ‘s mother retrieved her own pistol, shot back and killed him. [ 12 ] The shoot was legally adjudged to have been self-defense, and her mother faced no charges. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Theron attended Putfontein Primary School ( Laerskool Putfontein ), [ 9 ] a period during which she has said she was not “ fitting in ”. [ 15 ] She was frequently ailing with jaundice throughout childhood and the antibiotics she was administered made her upper incisor milk teeth rot ( they had to be surgically removed ) and teeth did not grow until she was roughly ten-spot years old. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. [ 8 ] [ 16 ] Although Theron is fluent in English, her first terminology is Afrikaans. [ 18 ] [ 19 ]
career [edit ]
1991–1996 : early work [edit ]
Although seeing herself as a dancer, [ 20 ] at age 16 Theron won a annual model contract [ 8 ] at a local competition in Salerno [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and moved with her mother to Milan, Italy. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] After Theron spent a year modelling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the US, both New York City and Miami. [ 23 ] In New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career way. [ 20 ] [ 24 ] As Theron recalled in 2008 :
I went to New York for three days to model, and then I spent a winter in New York in a supporter ‘s windowless basement apartment. I was fracture, I was taking class at the Joffrey Ballet, and my knees gave out. I realized I could n’t dance anymore, and I went into a major depression. My ma came over from South Africa and said, “ Either you figure out what to do adjacent or you come home, because you can sulk in South Africa ”. [ 20 ]
In 1994, [ 25 ] Theron flew to Los Angeles, on a one-way tag her mother bought for her, intending to work in the film industry. [ 20 ] During the initial months there, she lived in a motel with the $ 300 budget that her mother had given her ; [ 6 ] she continued receiving cheques from New York and lived “ from paycheck to paycheck ” [ 26 ] to the compass point of stealing bread from a basket in a restaurant to survive. [ 26 ] [ 6 ] One sidereal day, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard bank to cash a few cheques, including one her mother had sent to help with the lease, [ 24 ] [ 6 ] but it was rejected because it was out-of-state and she was not an american citizen. [ 6 ] Theron argued and pleaded with the bank teller until endowment agent John Crosby, [ 24 ] who was the following customer behind her, cashed it for her and gave her his business menu. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] Crosby introduced Theron to an act school, [ 27 ] and in 1995 she played her first non-speaking role in the horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. [ 8 ] Her inaugural speaking role was Helga Svelgen the hitwoman in 2 Days in the Valley ( 1996 ), but despite the movie ‘s blend reviews, attention drew to Theron due to her beauty and the scene where she fought Teri Hatcher ‘s character. [ 6 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Theron feared being typecast as characters like to Helga and recalled being asked to repeat her performance in the movie during auditions : [ 6 ] “ A lot of people were saying, ‘You should good hit while the iron ‘s hot ‘ [ … ] But playing the same separate over and over does n’t leave you with any longevity. And I knew it was going to be harder for me, because of what I look like, to branch out to different kinds of roles ”. [ 28 ] When auditioning for Showgirls, Theron was introduced to talent agent J. J. Harris by the co-casting film director Johanna Ray. [ 6 ] [ 22 ] She recalled being surprised at how a lot faith Harris had in her electric potential and referred to Harris as her mentor. [ 6 ] [ 22 ] Harris would find scripts and movies for Theron in a variety of genres and encouraged her to become a producer. [ 6 ] [ 22 ] She would be Theron ‘s agent for over 15 years until Harris ‘s death. [ 6 ] [ 22 ]
1997–2002 : breakthrough [edit ]
Larger roles in widely released Hollywood films followed, and her career expanded by the end of the 1990s. In the repugnance drama The Devil’s Advocate ( 1997 ), which is credited to be her break-out film, [ 30 ] Theron starred aboard Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino as the frequent wife of an unusually successful lawyer. She subsequently starred in the venture movie Mighty Joe Young ( 1998 ) as the supporter and defender of a giant batch gorilla, and in the drama The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ), as a woman who seeks an abortion in World War II-era Maine. [ 8 ] While Mighty Joe Young flopped at the box agency, [ 31 ] The Devil’s Advocate and The Cider House Rules were commercially successful. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] She was on the shroud of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the “ White Hot Venus ”. [ 34 ] She besides appeared on the cover of the May 1999 consequence of Playboy magazine, in photos taken several years earlier when she was an nameless model ; Theron unsuccessfully sued the magazine for publishing them without her accept. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] By the early 2000s, Theron continued to steadily take on roles in films such as Reindeer Games ( 2000 ), The Yards ( 2000 ), The Legend of Bagger Vance ( 2000 ), Men of Honor ( 2000 ), Sweet November ( 2001 ), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ( 2001 ), and Trapped ( 2002 ), all of which, despite achieving merely limited commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress. On this period in her career, Theron remarked : “ I kept finding myself in a place where directors would back me but studios did n’t. [ I began ] a love affair with directors, the ones I very, sincerely admired. I found myself making truly bad movies, excessively. Reindeer Games was not a dependable movie, but I did it because I loved [ director ] John Frankenheimer. ” [ 37 ]
2003–2008 : Worldwide realization and critical success [edit ]
Ms. magazine in 2005 Theron on the cover ofmagazine in 2005 Theron starred as a safe and vault “ technician ” in the 2003 armed robbery film The Italian Job, an american homage/ remake of the 1969 british film of the lapp list, directed by F. Gary Gray and opposite Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, and Donald Sutherland. The film was a box position achiever, grossing US $ 176 million worldwide. [ 38 ] In Monster ( 2003 ), Theron portrayed serial cause of death Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men ( she was not tried for a seventh murder ) in the late 1980s and early 1990s ; [ 8 ] film critic Roger Ebert felt that Theron gave “ one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema ”. [ 39 ] For her portrayal, she was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, [ 40 ] american samoa well as the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award. [ 41 ] She is the first south african to win an academy award for Best Actress. [ 42 ] The Oscar winnings pushed her to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning up to US $ 10 million for a movie ; she ranked seventh. [ 43 ] AskMen besides named her the number one most desirable charwoman of 2003. [ 44 ] For her role as swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Theron garnered Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. [ 45 ] In 2005, she portrayed Rita, the mentally challenged love interest of Michael Bluth ( Jason Bateman ), on the one-third season of Fox ‘s television receiver series Arrested Development, [ 46 ] and starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Aeon Flux ; for her voice-over work in the Aeon Flux video game, she received a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female. [ 47 ] [ 48 ]
In the critically applaud play North Country ( 2005 ), Theron played a single mother and an iron mine actor experiencing sexual harassment. David Rooney of Variety wrote : “ The movie represents a confident following footstep for go Charlize Theron. Though the challenges of following a career-redefining Oscar function have stymied actresses, Theron segues from Monster to a performance in many ways more accomplished [ … ] The lastingness of both the operation and character anchor the movie firm in the tradition of other drama about wage-earning women leading the fight over industrial workplace issues, such as Norma Rae or Silkwood. ” [ 49 ] Roger Ebert echoed the lapp opinion, calling her “ an actress who has the beauty of a fashion model but has found resources within herself for these brawny roles about commonplace women in the universe of men. ” [ 50 ] For her performance, she received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Ms. magazine besides honoured her for this operation with a feature of speech article in its fall 2005 offspring. [ 51 ] On 30 September 2005, Theron received a leading on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [ 42 ] In 2007, Theron played a police detective in the critically acclaimed crime film In the Valley of Elah, and produced and starred as a foolhardy, blowsy mother in the little-seen drama film Sleepwalking, aboard Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb. The Christian Science Monitor praised the latter film, commenting that “ Despite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen clock time allotted to Theron ( who ‘s quite dependable ), Sleepwalking has a core of feel ”. [ 52 ] In 2008, Theron starred as a womanhood who faced a traumatic childhood in the drama The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga and opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger, and besides played the ex-wife of an alcoholic superhero aboard Will Smith in the superhero film Hancock. The Burning Plain found a limit turn in US theaters, [ 53 ] but grossed $ 5,267,917 outside the US. furthermore Hancock made US $ 624.3 million cosmopolitan. [ 54 ] besides in 2008, Theron was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year, [ 55 ] and was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. [ 56 ] During this time she began appearing in J’adore Commercials .
2009–2011 : career suspension and tax return to acting [edit ]
Her film releases in 2009 were the post-apocalyptic drama The Road, in which she briefly appears in flashbacks, and the inspire movie Astro Boy, providing her voice for a fictional character. On 4 December 2009, Theron co-presented the puff for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of south african nationality or lineage. During rehearsals she drew an Ireland ball alternatively of France as a joke at the expense of FIFA, referring to Thierry Henry ‘s handball controversy in the play-off catch between France and Ireland. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] The stunt alarmed FIFA adequate for it to fear she might do it again in front of a live global consultation. [ 59 ] Following a biennial suspension from the large shield, Theron returned to the foreground in 2011 with the black drollery Young Adult. Directed by Jason Reitman, the film earned critical acclaim, particularly for her performance as a gloomy divorce, alcoholic 37-year-old ghostwriter. Richard Roeper awarded the film an A grade, stating “ Charlize Theron delivers one of the most impressive performances of the class ”. [ 60 ] She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and several other awards. Roger Ebert called her one of the best actors working today. [ 61 ] In 2019, Theron spoke about her method acting of working on roles. Creating a physical identity together with the aroused part of the fictional character, she said, is “ a great cock set that adds on to everything else you were already doing as an actor. It ‘s a individual thing, but there is, to me, this beautiful thing that happens when you can get both sides : the outside and interior. It ‘s a actually knock-down dynamic ”. When preparing for a role, “ I about treat it like studying. I will find outer space where I am entirely, where I can be focused, where there ‘s cipher in my house, and I can in truth just sit down and study and bid and look at my front and hear my voice and walk around and be a sleep together idiot and my dogs are the only ones who are seeing that ”. [ 62 ]
2012–present : revival and far acclaim [edit ]
Prometheus at the 2012 Theron promotingat the 2012 WonderCon In 2012, Theron took on the function of villain in two big-budgeted films. She played Evil Queen Ravenna, Snow White ‘s evil stepmother, in Snow White and the Huntsman, [ 63 ] opposite Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, and appeared as a crowd member with a concealed agenda in Ridley Scott ‘s Prometheus. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle found Snow White and the Huntsman to be “ [ a ] slow, boring film that has no capture and is highlighted only by a handful of particular effects and Charlize Theron ‘s sincerely evil queen ”, [ 64 ] while The Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy, describing her role in Prometheus, asserted : “ Theron is in methamphetamine goddess mode here, with the stress on ice [ … ] but arrant for the role all the same ”. [ 65 ] Both films were major box agency hits, grossing around US $ 400 million internationally each. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] In 2013, Vulture / NYMag named her the 68th Most valuable Star in Hollywood saying : “ We ‘re merely happy that Theron can stay on the list in a year when she did n’t come out with anything [ … ] any actress who ‘s got that kind of skill, smasher, and ferocity ought to have a permanent wave plaza in Hollywood ”. [ 68 ] On 10 May 2014, Theron hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] In 2014, Theron took on the function of the wife of an ill-famed sheepherder in the western comedy film A Million Ways to Die in the West, directed by Seth MacFarlane, which was met with mediocre reviews and moderate box position returns. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] In 2015, Theron played the sole survivor of the massacre of her syndicate in the film adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel Dark Places, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, in which she had a producer credit, [ 73 ] and starred as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road ( 2015 ), diametric Tom Hardy. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] Mad Max received far-flung critical acclaim, with praise going towards Theron for the dominant allele nature taken by her character. [ 76 ] The film made US $ 378.4 million global. [ 77 ] Theron reprised her role as Queen Ravenna in the 2016 film The Huntsman: Winter’s War, a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, [ 78 ] which was a critical and commercial bankruptcy. [ 79 ] In 2016, Theron besides starred as a doctor and militant working in West Africa in the little-seen romanticist play The Last Face, with Sean Penn, [ 80 ] provided her voice for the 3D stop-motion fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings, and produced the independent drama Brain on Fire. That year, Time named her in the Time 100 tilt of the most influential people in the global. [ 81 ]
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In 2017, Theron starred in The Fate of the Furious as the main antagonist of the stallion franchise, and played a spy on the eve of the crack up of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in Atomic Blonde, an adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City, directed by David Leitch. [ 82 ] With a worldwide gross of US $ 1.2 billion, The Fate of The Furious became Theron ‘s most widely seen film, [ 83 ] and Atomic Blonde was described by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times as “ a slick fomite for the magnetic, badass charms of Charlize Theron, who is immediately formally an a-list military action leading on the potency of this movie and Mad Max: Fury Road “. [ 84 ] In the black drollery Tully ( 2018 ), directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, Theron played an overpower beget of three. The film was acclaimed by critics, who concluded it “ delves into the modern parenthood experience with an admirably deft blend of humor and natural honesty, brought to life by an outstanding performance by Charlize Theron ”. [ 85 ] She besides played the president of a pharmaceutical in the little-seen crime film Gringo and produced the biographic war play film A Private War, both released in 2018. [ 86 ] In 2019, Theron produced and starred in the quixotic drollery movie Long Shot, diametric Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, portraying a U.S. Secretary of State who reconnects with a diarist she used to babysit. [ 87 ] The film had its universe premier at South by Southwest in March 2019, and was released on 3 May 2019, to plus reviews from film critics. [ 88 ] Theron future starred as Megyn Kelly in the drama Bombshell, which she besides co-produced. Directed by Jay Roach, the movie revolves around the sexual harassment allegations made against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes by early female employees. [ 89 ] For her solve in the film, Theron was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, [ 90 ] Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, [ 91 ] Critics ‘ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, [ 92 ] Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, [ 93 ] and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a lead Role. [ 94 ] That year, Forbes ranked her as the one-ninth highest-paid actress in the earth, with an annual income of $ 23 million. [ 5 ] Theron produced and starred in The Old Guard directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, opposite KiKi Layne for Netflix, [ 95 ] which was released in July 2020. [ 96 ] She following reprised her function as Cipher in F9, primitively set for release on 22 May 2020, [ 97 ] before its delay to June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 98 ] It was announced in February 2021 that she will be playing Lady Lesso in upcoming film The School for Good and Evil ( 2022 ). [ 99 ]
early ventures [edit ]
activism [edit ]
The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project ( CTAOP ) was created in 2007 by Theron, who the trace year was named a UN Messenger of Peace, in an effort to support African young in the competitiveness against HIV/AIDS. The plan is committed to supporting community-engaged organizations that address the key drivers of the disease. Although the geographic oscilloscope of CTAOP is Sub-Saharan Africa, the chief concentration has largely been Charlize ‘s home nation of South Africa. [ 100 ] By November 2017, CTAOP had raised more than $ 6.3 million to support African organizations working on the grind. [ 101 ] In 2008, Theron was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. [ 102 ] In his citation, Ban Ki-Moon said of Theron “ You have systematically dedicated yourself to improving the lives of women and children in South Africa, and to preventing and stopping ferocity against women and girls ”. [ 103 ] She recorded a public service announcement in 2014 as part of their Stop rape now program. [ 104 ] In December 2009, CTAOP and TOMS Shoes partnered to create a limited edition unisex horseshoe. The horseshoe was made from vegan materials and inspired by the African baobab tree, the silhouette of which was embroidered on amobarbital sodium and orange analyze. Ten thousand pairs were given to destitute children, and a assign of the proceeds went to CTAOP. [ 105 ] In 2020, CTAOP partnered with Parfums Christian Dior to create Dior Stands With Women, an enterprise that includes Cara Delevingne, Yalitza Aparicio, Leona Bloom, Paloma Elsesser, and others, to encourage women to be assertive by documenting their travel, challenges and accomplishments. [ 106 ] Theron is involved in women ‘s rights organizations and has marched in pro-choice rallies. [ 107 ] Theron is a assistant of same-sex marriage and attended a demonstrate and rally to support that in Fresno, California, on 30 May 2009. [ 108 ] She publicly stated that she refused to get married until lapp arouse marriage became legal in the United States, saying : “ I do n’t want to get marry because right now the initiation of marriage feels very nonreversible, and I want to live in a state where we all have equal rights. I think it would be precisely the same if we were married, but for me to go through that kind of ceremony, because I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would indeed badly want to get married, that I would n’t be able to sleep with myself ”. [ 109 ] Theron far elaborated on her position in a June 2011 consultation on Piers Morgan Tonight. She stated : “ I do have a trouble with the fact that our government has n’t stepped up enough to make this union, to make [ gay marriage ] legal. I think everybody has that right ”. [ 110 ] In March 2014, CTAOP was among the charities that benefited from the annual Fame and Philanthropy fundraising event on the nox of the 86th Academy Awards. Theron was an honor guest along with Halle Berry and keynote loudspeaker James Cameron. [ 111 ] In 2015, Theron signed an open letter which One Campaign had been collecting signatures for ; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development fund before a main UN acme in September 2015 that will establish newfangled development goals for the generation. [ 112 ] In August 2018, she visited South Africa with Trevor Noah and made a contribution to the south african charity Life Choices. [ 113 ] In 2018, she gave a speech about AIDS prevention at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, organized by the International AIDS Society. [ 114 ] Since 2008, Theron has been formally recognized as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. [ 115 ] [ 116 ]
Endorsements [edit ]
Having signed a deal with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced estonian model Tiiu Kuik as the spokeswoman in the J’Adore advertisements by christian Dior. [ 117 ] In 2018, she appeared in a new ad for Dior J’adore. From October 2005 to December 2006, Theron earned US $ 3 million for the habit of her effigy in a global print media advertise political campaign for Raymond Weil watches. [ 118 ] In February 2006, she and her production company were sued by Weil for gap of narrow. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] The lawsuit was settled on 4 November 2008. [ 120 ] In 2018, Theron joined Brad Pitt, Daniel Wu and Adam Driver as brand ambassadors for Breitling, dubbed the Breitling Cinema Squad. [ 121 ] [ 122 ]
personal life [edit ]
In 2007, Theron became a domesticate citizen of the United States, [ 123 ] while retaining her south african citizenship. [ 124 ] She lives in Los Angeles. [ 125 ] Theron has adopted two children : a daughter, Jackson in March 2012 [ 126 ] and another daughter, August, in July 2015. [ 127 ] She has been interested in borrowing since childhood, when she became mindful of orphanages and the overflowing numbers of children in them. [ 22 ] In April 2019, Theron revealed that Jackson, then seven years old, is a transgender female child. She said of her daughters, “ They were born who they are [, ] and precisely where in the populace both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide ”. [ 128 ] She is inspired by actresses Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver. [ 6 ] She has described her wonder for Tom Hanks as a “ love affair ” and watched many of his movies throughout her young person. [ 129 ] [ 6 ] Hollywood actors were never featured in magazines in South Africa so she never knew how celebrated she was until she moved to the United States, [ 6 ] which has been inferred as a factor to her “ down-to-earth ” attitude to fame. [ 130 ] After filming for That Thing You Do! finished, Theron got Hanks ‘ autograph on her script. [ 131 ] She late presented him his Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020, in which Hanks revealed that he had a reciprocal admiration for Theron ‘s career since the day he met her. [ 132 ] [ 133 ] Theron said in 2018 that she went to therapy in her thirties because of anger, discovering that it was due to her frustration growing up during South Africa ‘s apartheid, [ 114 ] [ 22 ] which ended when she was 15. [ 22 ]
Relationships [edit ]
Theron ‘s foremost public relationship was with actor Craig Bierko, whom she dated from 1995 to 1997. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] Theron was in a three-year relationship with singer Stephan Jenkins until October 2001. Some of Third Eye Blind ‘s third album, Out of the Vein, explores the emotions Jenkins experienced as a result of their separation. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Theron began a relationship with Irish actor Stuart Townsend in 2001 after meeting him on the set of Trapped. The couple lived together in Los Angeles and Ireland. [ 138 ] The couple split up in late 2009. [ 139 ] In December 2013, Theron began dating American actor Sean Penn. [ 140 ] The relationship ended in June 2015. [ 141 ]
Health concerns [edit ]
Theron frequently quips that she has more injuries on sets that are not legal action films ; [ 142 ] however, while filming Æon Flux in Berlin, Theron suffered a herniated disk in her neck, caused by a fall while filming a serial of back handsprings. It required her to wear a neck brace for a month. [ 143 ] Her ovolo ligament tear during The Old Guard when her ovolo catch in another actor ‘s jacket during a crusade fit, which required three operations and six months in a finger brace. [ 144 ] [ 145 ] [ 146 ] There were no major injuries during the film of Atomic Blonde but she broke teeth from jaw clenching [ 147 ] and had dental operating room to remove them : “ I had the removal and I had to put a donor bone in there to heal until I came spinal column, and then I had another surgery to put a metal fuck in there. ” [ 146 ] Outside of natural process films, she had a herniated phonograph record in her lower back as she filmed Tully and besides suffered from a depression-like express, which she theorised was the consequence from the processed food she had to eat for her fictional character ‘s post-natal body. [ 148 ] [ 142 ] [ 6 ] [ 149 ] In July 2009, she was diagnosed with a dangerous stomach virus, thought to be contracted while oversea. [ 150 ] [ 151 ] While filming The Road, Theron injured her vocal cords during the british labour party yell scenes. [ 152 ] On her first model job in Morocco, the camel she sat on smacked its head into her jaw, causing two dislocations. [ 22 ] When promoting Long Shot, she revealed that she laughed so arduous at Borat that her neck locked for five days. [ 149 ] then she added that on the set of Long Shot she “ ended up in the ER “ after knocking her fountainhead against a judiciary behind her when she was putting on stifle pads. [ 149 ]
Filmography and accolades [edit ]
As of early 2020, Theron ‘s extensive film work has earned her 100 award nominations and 39 wins .
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