CINEMA

Charlize Theron

 Charlize Theron, born August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa, is an actress and former model. She began her acting career in the United States and rose to fame in the 1990s with films like The Devil's Advocate (1997) or That Thing You Do! (1998)

Monster was released in 2003 and Charlize Theron became a global star performer of very different roles, revealing that she has a very good actress.

 

She now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood.

She became the mother in March 2012 of a boy she adopted in South Africa and his name is Jackson. She lives in Los Angeles.

In her youth, at the age of 12, Charlize was sent to the National School Of The Arts in Johannesburg. She maintained her passion for dance, she began to practice from six years old with ballet classes. Her performances were a delight to her mother, who encouraged her to develop her artistic talents. These positive experiences made returns to home more difficult, as her family situation deteriorated. Her father, Charles, fell gradually into alcoholism, and was more distant vis-à-vis his family. Then one day in 1991, while Charlize was back from school for the weekend, her mother Gerda underwent again the violence of her husband, and shot and killed him in self-defense . Yet, no prosecution was instituted.

Her mother had a positive influence in her life, and then she was enrolled in a modeling contest. Charlize, then aged 16, won the contest and flew to Italy to represent her country at the International New Model Today5. She once again prevailed, offering herself the opportunity to become a professional model. She left school and flew to Milan with her mother, to start her modeling career. Three months later, her mother Gerda returned to South Africa in her activities, while Charlize moved to Milan and traveled throughout Europe for her work.

After a year working as a fashion model, Charlize decided to pursue her passion for ballet and enrolled at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, while accepting some photo shoots to finance her stay. After 8 months

of classes, a knee injury forced her to draw a line on her dancing career. She then moved to Miami for a few months and continued modeling. But Charlize was not interested in the life of a top model: she seeked to develop her artistic talents.

In the mid 1990s she had a relationship with actor Craig Bierko. Then in 1997, she was with Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind in 2002, she met Stuart Townsend on the set of a film. The couple separated in 2010.

Nowadays, Charlize Theron is famous for films like The Cider House Rules (1999), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Snow White and the Hunstman (2012) and Prometheus (2012).

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