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# Charlize Theron

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Actress Charlize Theron at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival

Charlize Theron is a South African actress. She was born August 7 1975. The Oscar winning actress was born in Benoni near Johannesburg in Gauteng. She won an Academy Award for her role in the movie Monster and was nominated for her role in the movie "North Country". She can speak three languages, her first being Afrikaans.

## [edit] Her career

She attended a boarding school at the age of thirteen and at the age of fifteen, she saw her dad being killed by her mother as an act of self-defence. No charges were pressed against her mother.

At the age of sixteen, she won a local modelling competition and went to Milan, Italy for a one-year contract. After her modelling contract was over, she moved to New York, United States, and became a ballet dancer. She injured her knee at the age of eighteen, ending her career of being a ballet dancer.

She did star in a few movies, but only really became noticed when she portrayed the life of serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, in the movie Monster. She won an Oscar for her role in this movie.

After this, she got a lot of attention from the perfume label, Dior, and appeared in some of their ads.

She also does a lot of community work, including for PETA, for their anti-fur ads. She also works with animal rights activists and has become one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed actresses.

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