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Won 1 Oscar. See more awards ». Known For. Monster Producer. Snow White and the Huntsman Ravenna. Tully Producer. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Producer 22 credits. Two Eyes Staring producer announced. Atomic Blonde 2 producer announced. The Old Guard 2 producer pre-production. Show all 10 episodes. Show all 19 episodes. Show all 13 episodes. Hide Show Actress 67 credits.
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Hide Show Costume designer 1 credit. Hide Show Soundtrack 2 credits. Baby One More Time" - uncredited. Watching hours of television, she strove to hide her South African roots with perfect American inflections. In , a destitute Theron argued with a bank teller, who refused to allow her to pull funds from a South African account. Theron's subsequent fit earned the attention of a fellow bank patron John Crosby, a Hollywood manager who represented talent including John Hurt and Rene Russo.
He immediately offered to sign Theron and, within months, she made her acting debut in a small role in Children of the Corn III Her turn as Reeves' suicidal wife earned her another brief but memorable part in Woody Allen 's Celebrity , and a starring role in Disney's remake of Mighty Joe Young In , she reteamed with Reeves for the tearjerker Sweet November , and two years later she starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the heist thriller The Italian Job For all her recent success, it was Theron's leading role 's Monster —a biopic about serial killer Aileen Wuornos —that transformed her from screen beauty to acclaimed actress.
Theron gained close to 40 pounds for the film, and her gritty, gripping performance won her both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Her portrayal of an iron miner fighting sexual harassment in the work place earned her nominations at the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
The same year, she starred in the big-screen adaptation of the MTV cult cartoon Aeon Flux , and made multiple guest appearances on the award-winning television comedy, Arrested Development. In , Theron returned to the superhero genre in Hancock with co-star Will Smith. Theron soon showed another side of her acting talent with the independent dramatic comedy Young Adult with Patton Oswalt.
She received a Golden Globe nod for her portrayal of a writer facing personal and professional difficulties. She then portrayed Meredith Vickers in the sci-fi thriller Prometheus.
It was on to comedies in , with Theron starring in the critically acclaimed Tully and the uneven Gringo. After joining Seth Rogen for the romantic comedy Long Shot , Theron headlined the star-studded voice cast of The Addams Family , as the creepy and kooky family matriarch, Morticia.
Late that year she was to play news anchor Megyn Kelly in Bombshell , about the sexual assault allegations against former Fox News head Roger Ailes. In addition to her film roles, Theron is also a philanthropist and social activist. In , she was honored by the United Nations when she became the organization's tenth messenger of peace.
The doors were jammed and there was a man trapped inside. In South Africa everybody carries a weapon, and the man begged for someone to shoot him because he didn't want to burn to death.
Nobody could get him out of the cab, so somebody shot him. It was horrific, but definitely a moment that made me have a great value for life. Other things in life have taught me not to take a moment for granted. And it took a woman, a first-time female director, to offer me that role. Paul Haggis [the director of Crash and In the Valley of Elah ] recently said to me, "You know, often it's the material that will define an actor, but you didn't do that.
You defined yourself with what you chose to do. I do like the challenge of finding material that people don't want to risk a lot of money on and that studios don't necessarily jump to go, "Yeah! We want to tell that story. Everybody wondered how a movie like that could be successful. I get bored so quickly. I just really liked the material. And the girl was cool. I wasn't ticking any boxes. I just try and do good material and how it gets made is secondary. As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag.
But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad! They can see Russia from their house, too. I don't avoid glamorous roles. But I don't see so many. You tell me one glamorous role that is in a good movie you have seen in the last ten years. My point is, it's not a case of wanting to be glamorous or not. It's about wanting to tell a good story. And the physical is at the bottom of the list for me. Your job, as an actor, is to be a clean canvas for your director, and you have to tell the story as authentically as possible.
I don't know if I would be who I am today if I'd grown up in a different country. In our house the news was always on, the newspaper was always on the dining room table and my parents had a real thirst for politics, and that's how I grew up.
A lot of my American friends grew up in a different way, and because of what's happened in America in recent years, they are asking questions, playing catch-up. But I can understand that, because they were living in a country that was comfy and cozy.
I wasn't. I want to know what is going on. I have an interest in world politics--how can you not when you live on this Earth? I'm just flabbergasted when people don't give a shit. But once you got there, it was an hour's drive back, so you may as well watch whatever it was. I was about eight or nine and Fatal Attraction was playing and Mom didn't want to turn all the way around, so she was like, "Well, this is as good a way for you to learn as any". But you try very hard to move on.
My mother was an incredible example to me. I can't imagine going through life without her. I think she has influenced who I am, but without intent really. She would always say, "That's how I feel, but you should figure it out for yourself. I'm responsible for my own actions, my own decisions. So it's a weird one, because she didn't want me to be her, but I think now, at 32, I look at her and I kind of go, "Wow, I somehow aspire to be you.
The reason I did North Country wasn't just because of what the women were going through. I was really fascinated to understand where the men came from.
But what those women suffered was appalling. Just appalling. The real lady that this happened to is still in therapy and on medication. When you meet her, you understand that this has taken a real toll on her. Look, I can't forget I'm a woman.
I love being a woman and I love being feminine, so that will always be part of my work, obviously. But I approach the material with a more humanistic approach.
I think that kind of stuff can become over-earnest if you approach it with a big hammer. Personally, I've been lucky. Maybe it's the way I was raised, but I know right from wrong and I know wrong when I walk into a room--and if I feel it's wrong, I walk right out again.
There were a lot of pros to winning the Oscar, but a lot of cons, too. Suddenly, it all became about transformation. Every movie I did after Monster was jumped upon as yet another transformation. Even when I only had dirt on my face, like in North Country it was transformation. I do all this work with Guillermo Arriaga on The Burning Plain script, we explore all these themes, and then we come on these junkets and it's like, "So you don't play a glamorous role again.
You know, how many great stories can you tell in a Dior dress? Or is it because I've done a J'adore perfume ad that I can only be one type of woman? I don't think women are that. We are many things. One day we wake up and we want to put on jeans and T-shirt, and the next day we want to fucking have our hair done. But that doesn't mean that I don't have access to raw emotion. But it seems to be a problem for journalists. I don't know how to say this without sounding strange.
But I feel like having this tragedy [her mother shot her father] at such a young age has given me a leg up from other people. Because, man, from 16, I knew the value of life and I knew how quickly it could be taken away. And from that moment on, I made a choice to either swim or to drown, you know? People want to think that I am this tortured soul, that my work is drawn only from this one well. And though I would never sit here and say that it didn't mark me, or mould me into the person that I am, my life has had many painful journeys and heartbreaks since my father died, many of which I draw on for my work.
We're either really good hookers or really good mothers. The only thing that really stuck with me the first time I went back was walking through the house that I grew up in, and everything seemed so small. It was such a bizarre feeling. I was like, "My mother made me sleep in a closet. I've never been a fan of labels. And I'm not a big fan of overly justifying bad behavior, or why people are the way they are.
I think it's a cop-out. And I don't have a lot of empathy for that. I don't have to make these giant movies. It's such a blessed place to be in. I don't have to take a job to pay a mortgage on a house that I can't afford. My life comes first, then my job. I'm incredibly lucky to be in a position where I don't have to work all the time to live. It's not like I've been [offered] any great glamorous roles that had great conflict and great storytelling. But I'm not going to be picky, because they're hard to come by.
If I sit around waiting for a good, glamorous story to come around, I'm probably never going to work. So if you don't consider my character [in In the Valley of Elah ] beautiful, I'm sorry, but that's really me. That's my natural hair color. That's me with very little make-up. There's no prosthetics. That's what I look like. I think we're starting to live in a culture where we're so celebrity-obsessed that we're starting to believe that when we see celebrities, they're supposed to look like they do on magazine covers.
But that's about people doing hair and make-up for you, and wearing big gowns. I look for roles involving good stories and good filmmakers.
And it's my job as an actor to service those stories as best I possibly can. It's not about how I look physically. Physical's the last thing I think of. All of that stuff is really nice. I do have a bit of a guilt--I don't know if it's the African in me--but I'm one person and how much makeup do I need?
I have a normal-sized closet. I donate things. I don't have a nature in me to want things in excess. I actually don't like it. A lot of times, I will auction it off and have it go to charity. And my friends benefit a lot. I call it Narnia. When I see a girlfriend and say, "I like that top," she's like, "Narnia, from your closet. I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships.
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