Happy birthday to Charlize Theron, who turns 48 today, Monday, August 7, 2023. Born in Benoni, South Africa in 1975, the Oscar-winning Hollywood diva for Monster spent her childhood on the farm of her parents, wealthy landowners who own a road construction company. At the age of six, he began taking dance lessons. At the age of thirteen, she was enrolled in a boarding school in Johannesburg, where she was able to further improve her skills as a dancer. At the age of fifteen, her life is turned upside down by a dramatic event: her mother shoots her husband, an abusive and alcoholic, in self-defense, killing him, according to Cinematografo.it.
In 1991, after winning a local competition for novice models, Charlize was offered to start modeling. So she leaves for Milan and works as a model for a year before she realizes that the role of “beauty change” has deeply bored her. So, after being in New York for work, he decides to stay there and return to his first love, dancing, with Joffrey’s ballet. Just when she seems to be in full swing, her career as a dancer is cut short by a knee injury. At 18, Charlize has to start all over again. Heeding her mother’s insistence, she traveled to Hollywood, where in 1994 John Crosby, an agent representing Rene Russo and John Hurt, among others, spotted her arguing with a bank clerk who refused to pay her a check. Impressed, he leaves her his business card. Eight months later, Charlize will make her big screen debut.
After Elizabeth Berkley was chosen for the title role in Showgirls (a happy exception considering the film’s fiasco), she was chosen for Two Days Without Breath (1996). Meanwhile, he begins taking acting lessons. It wasn’t until a year later that her acting career got its final boost with her participation in The Devil’s Advocate alongside Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. Then in 1998, he appears in Woody Allen’s Celebrity (in which he also starred in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion) and in Ron Underwood’s tale Big Joe. In 1999, she starred in Rand Ravich’s sci-fi film The Astronaut’s Wife, in which she is the wife of Johnny Depp, and also took part in Lasse Hallström’s The Cider House Rules, which was nominated for several Oscars. In 2004, her interpretation of the multiple killer Eileen Wuornos won several Best Actress awards, including an Oscar, a Silver Bear in Berlin, and a Golden Globe (drama category).
Her most critically acclaimed roles also include two collaborations with director Jason Reitman, the first for Young Adults (2011) and the second for Tully (2018), the melancholy story of a woman in crisis just after the birth of her third child. daughter; both roles earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
A UN Ambassador, she is a member of women’s and animal rights organizations such as PETA. She is the mother of two adopted daughters, Jackson and August. The last serious relationship of the South African actress was with star Sean Penn in 2015.