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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (/ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZTHERR-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 various accolades, including an Academy 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 acting Oscar. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018) and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), for which she received her third Academy Award nomination. Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlize Theron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026
The Odyssey

as Circe

Movie
2026
APEX
Movie
2025
The Old Guard 2

as Andromache of Scythia / Andy

Movie
2023
Fast X

as Cipher

Movie
2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

as Clea

Movie
2021
F9

as Cipher

Movie
2020
The Old Guard

as Andromache of Scythia / Andy

Movie
2017
The Fate of the Furious

as Cipher

Movie
2016
Kubo and the Two Strings

as Monkey / Mother (voice)

Movie
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War

as Queen Ravenna

Movie
2015
Mad Max: Fury Road

as Imperator Furiosa

Movie
2012
Prometheus

as Meredith Vickers

Movie
2012
Snow White and the Huntsman

as Queen Ravenna

Movie
2009
The Road

as Mother

Movie
2008
Hancock

as Mary

Movie
2005
Æon Flux

as Æon Flux

Movie
2003
The Italian Job

as Stella Bridger

Movie
2002
Trapped

as Karen

Movie
2000
Reindeer Games

as Ashley Mercer

Movie
1997
The Devil's Advocate

as Mary Ann Lomax

Movie
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Fast X: Part 2

as Cipher

Movie
2025
The Studio

as Charlize Theron

TV Show