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Trivia
Birth name: Charlize Theron
Date of birth: 7 August 1975
Place of birth: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Nickname: Charlie
Height: 5' 9˝" (1.77 m)
When she was 15, her father attacked her
mother, and her mother shot her father in self-defense. Her father died,
and her mother was not charged in the incident.
First language is Afrikaans, English is
spoken as her second language.
Appeared in the May 1999 issue of Playboy
Magazine
Became a fashion model at age 14.
Named one of "People" magazine's
50 Most Beautiful People [2000]
Turned down the female lead in Pearl Harbor
(2001) to star alongside Keanu
Reeves in Sweet November (2001).
Auditioned for the female lead in Showgirls
(1995).
Dated Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of the
band Third Eye Blind. [January 1998 - July 2001]
Was ranked 4th of the 100 Sexiest Women by
FHM Taiwan (2001).
Placed #1 on Beautiful People Internet Poll,
narrowly beating Cameron
Diaz in #2 and Kate
Beckinsale in #3. The photo featured on the site was the famous
'Diving Board' photo.
Both her parents are Afrikaans, born and
raised in South Africa. However her father is of French descent and her
mother of German descent.
Voted the 12th Sexiest Female Movie Star in
the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
Measurements: 36B-24-36 (Source: Celebrity
Sleuth magazine)
Used hypnotherapy as an aid to quit smoking.
Was named after her father, whose name was
Charles.
She gained 30 pounds to play Aileen Wuornos
in Monster (2003)
On the show, "Sunday Morning
Shootout" (2003), it was revealed that her manager discovered her
in a Hollywood bank after he witnessed her yelling at a bank teller for
refusing to cash her check.
Won the Best Actress Oscar for her
performance as Aileen Wuornos on what would have been Aileen's 48th
birthday. (29 February 2004)
After winning her Oscar, she returned to
great celebrations in her native South Africa, and she even met former
South African President Nelson Mandela. When he praised her for putting
their country on the map and gave her a hug, Theron broke into tears
(she was guest of honor at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg
on March 11th 2004).
One of the first movies she ever went to see
at the theater was _Splash (1984)_ . She confessed that after watching
the movie, she felt jealous of Daryl Hannah and developed a crush on Tom
Hanks. She even said to herself that she could have played the role
of Madison better than Daryl Hannah.
She has been dating Irish actor Stuart
Townsend since August 2001.
Has said her favorite actor is Tom
Hanks.
In 2004, injured her neck while filming Aeon
Flux (2005). Luckily, the injury wasn't serious enough to put her in the
hospital, but it did shut down production for several weeks.
As a teenager in her native South Africa,
she learned English by watching American TV.
At the 2005 Golden Globes she was sporting a
new dark hair color. She is a now a member of the celebrities who have
died their hair from blonde to brown (or black). Those celebrities are
Mary-Kate Olsen, Nicky
Hilton, Mandy
Moore, Rene
Zellweger, Christina
Aguilera, Ashlee
Simpson, and many moore.
She was the first person to sign on to be a
presenter at the 77th Annual Academy Awards.
Second actress (the first was Kim Basinger)
to win an Oscar after appearing naked in Playboy magazine.
Met fiancé Stuart Townsend on the set of
Trapped (2002)
Along with Djimon Hounsou was the first
African to be nominated for an Oscar. She went on to become the first
African to win an Oscar.
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