Famous For
-Academy Award for Best Actress
-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress
-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role



Quick Bio
Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress and former model. She was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III (1995). Larger roles in widely released Hollywood films followed, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999).

After appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

On September 30, 2005, Theron received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux,. Additionally, Theron received Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her lead performance in the drama North Country.