Charlize+Theron

Charlize Theron was born and raised in Benoni, Transvaal Province, South Africa on August 7, 1975. Growing up she was a very hardworking child and her chores consisted of tending the family's livestock. At age 6, Charlize began ballet. She soon began to get really good, so at age 12, her parents sent her to a Johannesburg boarding school where she studied dance. During Theron’s childhood she had a very healthy relationship with her family, but things quickly changed once she became a teenager. During Theron’s teenage years, her father Charles struggled with alcoholism and became very abusive. When she was 15 her father attacked both her and her mother very violently. Theron's mother shot and killed Charles (Charlize’s father). One year later, at age 16 Charlize entered a modeling contest in Johannesburg which soon changed her whole life! After winning the modeling contest, Charlize traveled to Italy where she won the International New Model Today Competition. She fell very much in love with fashion and modeling. After traveling to New York at the age of 18, she left fashion and decided to make an attempt at a dancing career. Theron was accepted into to the Joffrey Ballet School where she studied dance, but a severe knee injury forced to abandon her first calling. Now that Theron was careerless, she decided to pursue acting and moved to Los Angeles. Although she wanted to be an American actress, she found that her Afrikaner accent was a barrier in landing speaking roles. To resolve this problem, Theron watched hours of television trying to hide her South African roots with perfect American inflections. All of her hard work soon paid off because she soon landed her first small role in //Children of the Corn 3.// Her career took off and soon she was starring in movies with Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlburg, Robert DeNiro, and Will Smith. In 2003 she won an Academy Award for her role in //Monster.//

Although Charlize Theron was a small town girl from Johannesburg, South Africa, she turned out to be a pretty big sensation. Even though she had a pretty rough childhood, she didn’t let that get in the way of living her life to the fullest. She tried so many hobbies from modeling/designing to ballet leading up to acting. Once Theron got into acting, she wouldn’t let anyone get in the way and put her down. Even though it was harder for her to earn a speaking role in movies because of her African accent, she soon overcame that by studying the speaking roles of many American actors and actresses. Charlize is an inspiration to many people in South Africa because of how far and successful she has came in her career. Charlize Theron has been starring in many popular ultime hollywood movies and she hope to star in many more upcoming films!