Biography of Charlize Theron & Net Worth 2024.
Charlize Theron born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses, Theron is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Theron 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 Oscar in an acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005).
Early Life
Charles Theron (27 November 1947 – 21 June 1991), Second Boer War military leader Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle. She is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German; her father is French and her mother is African and Dutch. Her French forebears were early Huguenot colonizers in South Africa.” Theron” is an Occitan surname (originally spelled Théron) pronounced in Afrikaans as [trɔn].
Career
Although seeing herself as a dancer, at age 16 Theron won a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in Salerno and moved with her mother to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year modeling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the US, both New York City and Miami.
Personal Life
In 2007, Theron became a naturalized citizen of the United States, while retaining her South African citizenship. She lives in Los Angeles.
Theron has adopted two children: a daughter, Jackson, who is a transgender girl, in March 2012 and another daughter, August, in July 2015. She has been interested in adoption since childhood when she became aware of orphanages and the overflowing numbers of children in them. In April 2019, Theron revealed that Jackson, then seven years old, is a trans girl. She stated of both daughters, “They were born who they are[,] and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide”.
Charlize Theron Net Worth
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