Charlize Theron
After eight months in the city, Charlize Theron 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).
Cast member Charlize Theron attends the movie premiere of “Hancock” at Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California June 30, 2008. The movie opens in the U.S. on July 2.
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”.[8] For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004,[9] as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award.[10] She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
The Oscar win pushed her to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood; earning $10,000,000 for both her subsequent films, North Country and Æon Flux, she ranked seventh, behind Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicole Kidman.[12]
Charlize Theron has splashed out on expensive “super berry” moisturiser. The 33-year-old actress is determined to preserve her youthful appearance and swears by Sugar Acai Age-Delay Body Cream, made from a fruit found in the Amazon jungle.
The cream, which costs a staggering $65 for a small tube, boasts it can “slow down time” and is packed with “age-defying technologies to nourish, protect and firm”.
Theron in 2005On September 30, 2005, Theron received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[11] In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux,[13].
Additionally, Theron received Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her lead performance in the drama North Country.[9][10] Ms. Magazine also honored her for this performance with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue.
In 2005, Theron portrayed Rita, Michael Bluth’s (Jason Bateman) love interest, on the third season of FOX’s critically-acclaimed television series Arrested Development.[14] She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role of Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
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