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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, she is the recipient of an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Charlize Theron is a South African and American actor, model, film producer, and television actor. Born in Benoni on August 7, 1975, she is a left-handed female who speaks Afrikaans and English. Her native language is Afrikaans. She began her work period in 1995 and currently resides in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Democratic Party in the United States.

Theron has received the Academy Award for Best Actress, Saturn Award for Best Actress, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her notable works include Young Adult, Two Million Miles, and Tully. She has been unmarried partners with Stuart Townsend and Sean Penn.

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Young Adult
Two Million Miles
Tully

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Gender: Female
Active from: 1975

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Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZ THERR-ən; Afrikaans: [ʃarˈlis ˈtrɔn]; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

She came to international 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 portrayal 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 acting Oscar. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005).

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