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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.
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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.
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Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
RuPaul's Drag Race
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Today
The Boys
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
The Early Show
Chelsea
The Colbert Report
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Daily Show
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Arrested Development
Desus & Mero
The Orville
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
The Grand Tour
Hyperdrive
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fast X
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fast X: Part 2
F9
Astro Boy
The Studio
The Fate of the Furious
2 Days in the Valley
The School for Good and Evil
Prometheus
Men of Honor
The Devil's Advocate
Snow White and the Huntsman
Gringo
The Road
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Addams Family 2
Sweet November
Doctor Strange 3
The Italian Job
The Cider House Rules
The Addams Family
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Huntsman: Winter's War
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Hancock
The Astronaut's Wife
Æon Flux
The Old Guard
Bombshell
Monster
Atomic Blonde
Young Adult
Jane
Long Shot
Atomic Blonde 2
The Old Guard 2
Production Credits
Murder Mystery
Girlboss
MINDHUNTER
Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter
The Addams Family
Atomic Blonde
Monster
Jane
Gringo
Brain on Fire
The Old Guard
Hyperdrive
Bombshell
Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York
The Old Guard 2
Long Shot
Atomic Blonde 2
Murder Mystery 2
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