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Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards.
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entertainment · South African-American actress (born 1975) · actor · film producer · television actor · film actor · voice actor · also Charlize Theron, Theron
Born 7 August 1975 · Q80046
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2026· 16 entries
Yahoo: Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo and John Carpenter Set as Academy Museum Gala Honorees
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Yahoo: John Carpenter, Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron to Be Honored at Academy Museum Gala
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Public attention spiked: 47,462 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 14,930, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “Dior Spotlight: Philisa Abafazi Bethu Garden Champion Gavin”.
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Published video “Dior Spotlight: CTAOP YL Scholar Miché”.
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Published video “Dior Spotlight: CTAOP YL Scholar Siphosihle”.
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Published video “Dior Spotlight: CTAOP YL Scholar Onesimo”.
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The Guardian: Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50 | Emma Brockes
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The Guardian: Apex review – Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton cat-and-mouse game is slick but soulless
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The Guardian: Charlize Theron joins chorus of disapproval over Timothée Chalamet’s ballet comments
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Published video “CTAOP YLS Leadership Summit 2025”.
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Published video “Dior Women's Month Spotlight: Lucinda Evans & Philisa Abafazi Bethu”.
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Published video “Charlize Theron & Lucinda Evans of Philisa Abafazi Bethu for #WomensDay”.
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Published video “CTAOP's YL Scholars in Conversation with Charlize Theron for #Women'sDay”.
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Published video “Dior x CTAOP - International Women's Day 2026”.
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2025· 2 entries
Published video “CTAOP: Hope Is Alive in Southern Africa”.
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The Guardian: The Old Guard 2 review – Charlize Theron’s delayed Netflix sequel is an incomplete mess
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2024· 1 entry
Was cast in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026) as the goddess Calypso
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Charlize Theron attacks Hollywood beauty standard: ‘I’m just ageing! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery’
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The Guardian: Young Adult: Charlize Theron is a singular monster in this stomach-churning film
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Theron reprised her role as Cipher in Fast X and executive produced the HBO documentary series Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York about a serial killer preying on gay men
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Charlize Theron sparks anger after claiming Afrikaans facing oblivion
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Theron appeared in several projects
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2020· 3 entries
CTAOP partnered with Parfums Christian Dior to create Dior Stands With Women, an initiative that includes Cara Delevingne, Yalitza Aparicio, Paloma Elsesser, and others, to encourage women to be assertive by documenting
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Produced and starred opposite KiKi Layne in the superhero film The Old Guard, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
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In which Hanks revealed that he had a mutual admiration for Theron's career since the day he met her
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2019· 2 entries
Theron produced and starred in the romantic comedy film Long Shot, opposite Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, portraying a U
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Theron spoke about her method of working on roles
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2018· 3 entries
Theron joined Brad Pitt, Daniel Wu and Adam Driver as brand ambassadors for Breitling, dubbed the Breitling Cinema Squad
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Gave a speech about AIDS prevention at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, organized by the International AIDS Society
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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, which ended when she was 15
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2017· 1 entry
Theron starred in The Fate of the Furious as the cyberterrorist Cipher, the main antagonist of the entire franchise, and played a spy on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in Atomic Blonde, an adaptation
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2016· 2 entries
Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Theron starred as a physician and activist working in West Africa in the little-seen romantic drama The Last Face, with Sean Penn, provided her voice for the 3D stop-motion fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings, and prod
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2015· 2 entries
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
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Theron played the sole survivor of the massacre of her family in the film adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel Dark Places, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, in which she had a producer credit, and starred as Imperator
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2014· 2 entries
As part of the UN's "Stop Rape Now" program
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Theron took on the role of the wife of an infamous outlaw 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 office returns
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2012· 1 entry
Theron took on the role of villain in two big-budgeted films
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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Theron is a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended a march and rally to support that in Fresno, California, on 30 May 2009.
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Were the post-apocalyptic drama The Road, in which she briefly appears in flashbacks, and the animated film Astro Boy, providing her voice for a character
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2008).
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Theron was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace
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Theron starred as a woman who faced a traumatic childhood in the drama The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga and opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger, and played the ex-wife of an alcoholic superhero al
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Theron was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year, and was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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2007· 5 entries
Theron became a naturalised citizen of the United States, while retaining her South African citizenship
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While retaining her South African citizenship
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Theron played a police detective in the critically acclaimed crime film In the Valley of Elah, and produced and starred as a reckless, slatternly mother in the drama film Sleepwalking, alongside Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia
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By Theron, in an effort to support African youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS
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The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) was created in 2007 by Theron, in an effort to support African youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded GLAAD Vanguard Award (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Portrayed Rita, the mentally challenged love interest of Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), on the third season of Fox's television series Arrested Development, and starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Monster (2004).
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Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik as the spokeswoman in the J'Adore advertisements by Christian Dior
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2002· 1 entry
For killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s; film critic Roger Ebert felt that Theron gave "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema"
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1995· 1 entry
Played her first non-speaking film role in the horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
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1994· 1 entry
Theron flew to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket her mother bought for her; she intended to work in the film industry
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1991· 1 entry
“I grew up as an only child in South Africa, and there was turmoil in my family, but the surroundings were so great. I was usually barefoot in the dirt: no Game Boys, no computers, and we had sanctions, so there were no concerts. This meant you had to entertain yourself.”
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1975· 1 entry
Born 1975-08-07.
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