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Voted for one of the sexiest woman on earth Charlize Theron was born on 7 August 1975 in Benoni, Joahannesburg South Africa. She was named after her father, Charles. Charles was of French descent, while her mother Gerda hailed from German stock - both parents, though, were Afrikaans, born and raised in South Africa. Af ... read full biography
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Biography - the story behind Charlize Theron
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Voted for one of the sexiest woman on earth Charlize Theron was born on 7 August 1975 in Benoni, Joahannesburg South Africa. She was named after her father, Charles. Charles was of French descent, while her mother Gerda hailed from German stock - both parents, though, were Afrikaans, born and raised in South Africa. Afrikaans would be Charlize's first language, English her second, and she'd pick up smatterings from the 26 ethnic groups that provided workers for the farm and the road construction business run by Gerda. It's testament to Theron's abilities that she would find worldwide success by mastering a third language - American.
At 12, Charlize was sent to a boarding school in Johannesburg, specialising in the arts. Here'd she'd step up her dance training, now studying classical ballet as well as flamenco, Greek and contemporary dance. It was a hopeful existence, but back on the farm things were becoming increasingly difficult. Charles had slid into alcoholism and had long tortured Gerda with his distant manner and serial infidelities. Indeed, Charlize had come to feel like her mother's protector. Then, in 1991, when Charlize was back from school for the weekend and upstairs in her room, the situation reached a head. Charles attacked Gerda once more and she shot him dead (for years Charlize would tell interviewers he was killed in a car crash). It was a straight-up case of self-defence, Gerda would serve no time at all. Their nightmare was over.
Theron had made her screen debut in Children Of the Corn III. She was just a young mum in the park, in a 3-second non-speaking role, but it was a start. Now things were moving. In fact, they were moving so fast she almost rolled right into a disaster when she made the final short-list for the lead in Joe Eszterhas's Showgirls, being narrowly pipped by Elizabeth Berkley. The film would famously send Berkley's career into freefall, leading Theron to later comment "It was like I had some guardian angel".
After Hollywood Confidential had finally been aired, Charlize Theron next showed up in Jonathan Lynn's Trial And Error. Now she was entering the major leagues. Next came The Devil's Advocate, where she was credited alongside Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. 1998 was another big year. First she had a brief but memorable part in Woody Allen's Celebrity, where loathsome journalist Kenneth Branagh attempted the crawl his way up the social ladder of the glitterati. Selfishness and inconstancy were the watchwords as he divorced wife Judy Davis, got it on with movie star Melanie Griffith, and dumped girlfriend Famke Janssen for Winona Ryder. Charlize would appear as another temptation, a supermodel who describes herself as polymorphously perverse - that is, she can have orgasms simply by being touched. In Hollywood, Theron was now very much in demand. 1999 saw her in The Astronaut's Wife, where she was the titular spouse of Johnny Depp. The film was messy and unconvincing, but the seductress role did allow Charlize to switch between soft sweetness and hardboiled cruelty. Her depth was becoming ever clearer. This was further revealed in The Yards, where Mark Wahlberg is released from jail only to be recruited by his friend Joaquin Phoenix into a gang using bribery, intimidation and violence to win a war between rival subway contractors.
Now, at last, she secured a role her talents merited, and it sprang from that stand-out performance in The Devil's Advocate. Writer and director Patty Jenkins had seen it and recognised that an actress who'd allow herself to be filmed with her nose running had to be open enough to star in Monster, a movie she was writing about Aileen Wuornos, America's first female serial killer. Theron grabbed the chance and, putting on over 30 pounds, made herself next-to-unrecognisable as the abused prostitute who, at last finding love in a lesbian relationship (with Christina Ricci) begins to kill her "johns" on the Florida Interstate in order to fund a better life together.
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