Charlize Theron

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A violent childhood compelled her to succeed and when she won an Oscar, Theron knew she's made it. How did the beautiful blonde shake off the 'girlfriend' tag to become a Monster?

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Charlize Theron
born: 07-08-1975
birth place: Benoni, South Africa

1998 saw Theron take a brief but memorable part in Woody Allen's Celebrity, followed by a lead part in a Disney remake of Mighty Joe Young. The film was a success and slowly, Theron’s profile was rising among fans and critics alike.

In Hollywood, Theron was now very much in demand. 1999 began with The Astronaut's Wife, alongside Johnny Depp. Next Theron featured in Lasse Hallstrom's The Cider House Rules. The film brought in well-earned box office ratings and Theron was able to demonstrate a wider dimension to her acting abilities.

The Millennium began as busy year for Theron, yet none of the four films she starred in proved a big enough success to warrant any significant coverage for her. Reindeer Games starring Ben Affleck and The Yards featuring Marl Wahlberg were minor hits. Men of Honour, in which she starred as Robert De Niro’s alcoholic wife, drew a better audience reaction.

By the start of 2001, Theron’s career was at a point whereby her earning potential was far greater than it once had been, yet her status as an A-list actor wasn’t quite sealed. Sweet November was a box office flop, earning Theron a Razzie nomination, and signifying the beginning of a nose-dive in her acting credibility. A brief cameo in 15 Minutes followed, reuniting Theron with Robert De Niro and she was also reunited with Woody Allen in the period drama, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Trapped in 2001 was significant to Theron for more than professional reasons as it was here that she starred alongside the actor Stuart Townsend, whom she started dating shortly afterwards.

Next came Waking Up In Reno (2002), an odd road-trip comedy about two southern couples with Billy Bob Thornton playing a car dealer who cheats on wife (played by Natasha Richardson) with Theron. She had the opportunity to once again showcase her comic abilities but the film failed to propel her to the forefront of the plot.

The big budget remake of The Italian Job in 2003 saw Theron credited beside Mark Wahlberg again but the film didn’t take the audience by storm and was considered a poor reflection of the 1969 original.

Theron’s turn in The Devil’s Advocate was to prove more life-changing then she’d ever anticipated back in 1997, when writer and director Patty Jenkins approached her after seeing the film. Theron’s willingness to play a part that involved being filmed with her nose openly running was enough to convince Jenkins she was right to star in Monster, a film she was writing about Aileen Wuornos, America's first female serial killer.

Theron grabbed the opportunity to play Wuornos and in gaining nearly three stone, made herself virtually unrecognisable. She threw herself into the part buy studying Nick Broomfield's 1992 documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, and nailed all of Wuornos's ticks and body movements to a tee. The hard work finally paid off when she collected an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the role.

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