Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various 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). 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 Huntsman: Winter's War (2016), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020) and F9 (2021). 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), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last. 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Fast X: Part 2 as Cipher
- 2024 · Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as Furiosa (uncredited) (archive footage)
- 2024 · High & Low – John Galliano as Self
- 2023 · Fast X as Cipher
- 2023 · Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
- 2022 · The School for Good and Evil as Lady Lesso
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Clea (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Clea
- 2021 · The Addams Family 2 as Morticia Addams (voice)
- 2021 · F9 as Cipher
- 2020 · The Drew Barrymore Show as Self
- 2020 · The Old Guard as Andromache of Scythia / Andy
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Fezzik
- 2019 · Bombshell as Megyn Kelly
- 2019 · The Addams Family as Morticia Addams (voice)
- 2019 · A Little Late with Lilly Singh as Self
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · Hyperdrive as Self
- 2019 · The Boys as 'Dawn of the Seven' Stormfront (uncredited)
- 2019 · Long Shot as Charlotte Field
- 2019 · Desus & Mero as Self - Illustrious Guest
- 2018 · Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler as Self
- 2018 · Tully as Marlo Moreau
- 2018 · Gringo as Elaine Markinson
- 2017 · The Orville as Pria Lavesque
- 2017 · Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road as Self
- 2017 · Atomic Blonde as Lorraine Broughton
- 2017 · The Fate of the Furious as Cipher
- 2017 · The Last Face as Dr. Wren Petersen
- 2016 · The Grand Tour as Self
- 2016 · Kubo and the Two Strings as Monkey / Mother (voice)
- 2016 · Angels in Exile as Narrator
- 2016 · Chelsea as Self
- 2016 · The Huntsman: Winter's War as Queen Ravenna
- 2015 · Take Flight as Self - Performer
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Mad Max: Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa
- 2015 · Dark Places as Libby Day
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Nelson Mandela Redrawn as Self
- 2014 · A Million Ways to Die in the West as Anna
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2012 · The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self
- 2012 · Prometheus as Meredith Vickers
- 2012 · Snow White and the Huntsman as Queen Ravenna
- 2011 · Young Adult as Mavis Gary
- 2010 · Wikus and Charlize as Self (voice)
- 2010 · RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked as Self - Guest Judge
- 2009 · The Road as Mother
- 2009 · Astro Boy as Narrator
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 2008 · The Burning Plain as Sylvia / Mariana
- 2008 · Hancock as Mary Embrey
- 2008 · Sleepwalking as Joleen
- 2008 · Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis as Self
- 2007 · In the Valley of Elah as Detective Emily Sanders
- 2007 · Battle in Seattle as Ella
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2005 · Æon Flux as Æon Flux
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as Self (archive footage from North Country)
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · North Country as Josey Aimes
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Britt Ekland
- 2004 · Head in the Clouds as Gilda Bessé
- 2003 · Monster as Aileen Wuornos
- 2003 · Arrested Development as Rita Leeds
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · The Italian Job as Stella Bridger
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Waking Up in Reno as Candy Kirkendall
- 2002 · Trapped as Karen Jennings
- 2001 · The Curse of the Jade Scorpion as Laura Kensington
- 2001 · 15 Minutes as Rose Hearn
- 2001 · Sweet November as Sara Deever
- 2001 · Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · The Legend of Bagger Vance as Adele Invergordon
- 2000 · Men of Honor as Gwen Sunday
- 2000 · The Yards as Erica Soltz
- 2000 · Reindeer Games as Ashley Mercer
- 1999 · The Cider House Rules as Candy Kendall
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · The Astronaut's Wife as Jillian Armacost
- 1998 · Mighty Joe Young as Jill Young
- 1998 · Celebrity as Supermodel
- 1997 · The Devil's Advocate as Mary Ann Lomax
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · Trial and Error as Billie Tyler
- 1997 · Hollywood Confidential as Sally
- 1996 · That Thing You Do! as Tina
- 1996 · 2 Days in the Valley as Helga Svelgen
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest as Eli's Follower (uncredited)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self - Presenter
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1948 · Bambi Awards as Self
- 2024 · Jane as Jane
- 2024 · Two for the Money as
- 2024 · Everything Nice as Michaela (rumored)
- 2024 · Apex as
- 2024 · Atomic Blonde 2 as Lorraine Broughton
- 2024 · The Old Guard 2 as Andromache of Scythia / Andy