Charlize Theron, a South African and American actress and producer, was born on August 7, 1975. She has received numerous honors, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world. She was listed among the top 100 important people in the world by Time magazine in 2016.

The role of the main lady in the Hollywood movies The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules propelled Theron to international fame in the 1990s (1999). She gained praise for her portrayal of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 film Monster, for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, making history as the first South African to do so. She was nominated for an additional Academy Award for her performance in the drama North Country as a victim of sexual assault who seeks justice (2005).

Since then, Theron has acted in a number of financially lucrative action movies, such as 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). Additionally, she was praised for her roles as damaged women in the comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018) by Jason Reitman as well as her portrayal of Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), for which she received a third Academy Award nomination.

Theron has dabbled in film production since the early 2000s with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced a lot of movies, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot, many of which she starred in (2019). In 2007, Theron obtained American citizenship while keeping her South African one. A movie star honoring her has been added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

While keeping her South African citizenship, Theron naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 2007. She is a Los Angeles resident

jackson, a daughter, was adopted by Theron in March 2012, and August, a second daughter, was adopted in July 2015.

Since she was a little child, when she first learned about orphanages and the overwhelming number of kids living there, she has been interested in adoption. Theron disclosed that Jackson, who was seven years old at the time, is a transgender girl in April 2019. “They were born who they are,” she remarked of her girls, “and where exactly they both find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”