Charlize Theron

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Birthday: August 7, 1975
Age: 36
Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Benoni, South Africa
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Big Break: "Best Actress" Oscar for Monster
Biography
Actress Charlize Theron was born on August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa. Her career began as a model and aspiring ballet dancer. After suffering a knee injury, Charlize moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She landed a significant part in Two Days in the Valley. In 1997, she starred with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate.

Her finest moment came in 2003 when she was named Best Actress for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster. She was nominated for her role in North Country as well.

Charlize is in a committed relationship with Stuart Townsend. The two have been together since 2001. Charlize refuses to get married until same-sex couples are afforded the opportunity to marry.

Did you know…
  • Esquire named her the sexiest woman alive in 2007
  • She is the first South African to win Best Actress
  • She is an active member of PETA
  • She is an only child
  • Her mother shot and killed her abusive father
  • She auditioned for the female lead for the film Showgirls
  • She posed nude for the May 1999 Playboy issue
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It’s a natural transition, as all models do a bit of acting on their photo shoots, it’s just in front of a different kind of camera… and they don’t have to worry about things like, words. But as is evidenced by some of the most anticipated recent releases, a lot of them have no trouble talking.

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Brooklyn’s back story is what American dreams are made of: she was discovered as a teen, in a mall. Not just a model, Decker was a much-loved addition to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (which means that at some point she ate enough food to grow boobs). After a few TV appearances she made it big opposite Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Just Go With It. Brooklyn continues to get bigger, and is in two movies opening this very weekend, What To Expect When You’re Expecting, and Battleship.
When life hands you lemons, adopt a baby.

In an interview with Australian magazine Madison, Charlize Theron opens up about her desire to adopt.

Nearly two years ago, Charlize ended her 9-year relationship with Stuart Townsend. Finding herself 36 and single, Charlize remembered a promise she made to herself when she was a little girl.

“My mother found [a letter I wrote]. It said, ‘Would you please take me to an orphanage, so that I can go and adopt a baby?'"
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Sometimes in Hollywood, stars get a little bashful and hire a “stunt ass.” Meaning, a stand-in strips down for the naked scenes and no, that naked ass you saw in “Friends With Benefits” did not belong to Mila Kunis.

Matthew McConaughey stars in the new male-stripper movie “Magic Mike” and says all that partially clothed nudity you see on the big screen…it’s all him!

“That’s all me up there,” McConaughey tells the
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Thank God for LAX. The Los Angeles International Airport is the only place for a guaranteed celebrity sighting and luckily for us, Charlize Theron was catching a flight out of LA today and was snapped holding her new baby boy!

The darling little boy‘s name is Jackson, has a full head of curly hair, and outfitted in the cutest little khaki pants and striped shirt combo.
Apparently, Charlize Theron’s son wears vintage Wayfarers and got Coachella tickets, because he’s reportedly “the coolest kid ever.”

Charlize Theron is photographed in the May issue of Vogue, looking every bit the blonde bombshell she is. In the magazine, she dishes about her exciting new role as a mom.

Charlize revealed last month that she recently adopted and is now mom to baby Jackson Theron—a.k.a “the coolest kid ever.”
Yes, you read that right. Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron has a sex tape—and it’s pretty unbelievable.

Okay, before you take out your credit card and start looking up Vivid Entertainment’s website, we should tell you, it’s for Funny or Die. Hey, don’t yell at me! I’m just the messenger.

Charlize leaked a fake sex tape on Funny or Die on Sunday in honor of April Fool’s Day. The premise is, Charlize loses her cell phone in the Funny or Die office, and staff members hack it and find a sex tape that’s more than they bargained for.
Welcome to motherhood, Charlize. Prepare to leave many restaurants mid-meal as the little guy screams at the top of his lungs for no apparent reason. I've never had a kid, but that's pretty much what I imagine motherhood to be like.

Charlize Theron headed to the post office in Los Angeles on Tuesday, and she was either carrying some new, giant Birkin bag, or that's a car seat with her new son, Jackson, in tow.
It’s not exactly for kids.

Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart star in the upcoming Snow White flick, Snow White and the Huntsman, and a new trailer for the film was released on Monday.

Charlize Theron has never been scarier. It shows her beauty-obsessed character, Queen Ravenna, quite literally sucking the prettiness out of young girls. In one scene, she holds up a young lady, opens her mouth wide, and you can see the beauty being sucked out of the poor girl. But hey, Ravenna gets to stay young and hot. I mean, Botox is a little less severe, but to each her own.
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Charlize Theron just become a mom, and she says it’s “too hard” to be away from her newly adopted son. Give it a few weeks.

Theron had to leave Baby Jackson at home while she attended the Human Rights Campaign gala, and she said it wasn’t easy.

“He’s doing great,” Charlize said. “It’s very hard for me to leave the house now so you know how important this is because I was like standing at the door going, ‘Ah, this is so hard!’”
Charlize Theron may be described as a lot of things: Oscar Winner, new mom, gorgeous, talented, but Charlize Theron is the first person to say she's a huge b-tch.

Hey, her words, not mine.

So Charlize plays the Evil Queen in the new flick, “Snow White and the Huntsman”. She also just did “Young Adult” where she does play a total bitch, so Charlize has decided that much like every blonde girl on a high school cheerleading team ever, she's in her bitchy phase.

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