Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress who made her film debut in an uncredited role as a follower of a cult in the 1995 horror film
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Theron followed this with appearances as a hitman’s girlfriend in
2 Days in the Valley, a waitress in the romantic comedy
Trial and Error (1997), and a woman plagued with demonic visions in the mystery thriller
The Devil's Advocate (1997) with
Keanu Reeves and
Al Pacino. She appeared in the science fiction thriller
The Astronaut's Wife with
Johnny Depp, and
Lasse Hallström's
The Cider House Rules (both in 1999). For her portrayal of serial killer
Aileen Wuornos in the crime drama
Monster (2003), Theron received the
Academy Award for Best Actress, the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The following year, she played Swedish entertainer
Britt Ekland in the biographical film
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
Theron played the eponymous rebel assassin in the science fiction action film Æon Flux, and a miner fighting sexual harassment in the drama North Country (both in 2005). The latter role earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards and the BAFTAs. In the same year, she voiced Æon Flux in the tie-in video game adaptation to the film for which she received the Best Performance by a Female award at the Spike Video Game Awards. Three years later, Theron starred in the superhero film Hancock with Will Smith. The film grossed over $624 million at the worldwide box office. She received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her role as an alcoholic writer in the comedy-drama Young Adult (2011). The following year, Theron appeared in the action adventure film Snow White and the Huntsman and Ridley Scott's science fiction film Prometheus. In 2015, she played Imperator Furiosa in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road. Two years later, Theron appeared as criminal mastermind Cipher in the action film The Fate of the Furious (2017), a role she would reprise in F9 (2021), Fast X (2023), and Fast XI (2026). Theron followed this with acclaimed performances in the comedy-drama Tully (2018), the romantic comedy Long Shot (2019), and the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), the lattermost of which earned her a third Academy Award nomination.
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