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Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress and producer who has received various awards and nominations, including one Academy Award and one Golden Globe Award. Additionally, she has been nominated for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and one Primetime Emmy Award. In 2005, Theron received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry. [1]
In 1999, Theron starred in Lasse Hallström's drama The Cider House Rules . For her performance, she won the Bambi Award for Shooting Star: Female, [2] and was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. [3] Theron's breakthrough role in the critically acclaimed biographical crime drama Monster (2003) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, [4] the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, [5] the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, [6] the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, [7] and she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. [8] In 2005, Theron starred in Niki Caro's drama North Country as a single mother and iron worker experiencing sexual harassment. [9] Her performance went on to win the Desert Palm Achievement Award, [10] the Hollywood Actress Award, [11] and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, [12] the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, [13] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. [7]
In 2015, Theron starred in Mad Max: Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa opposite Tom Hardy. [14] Theron received widespread acclaim for her performance, and winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, [15] the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance, [16] the Saturn Award for Best Actress, [17] and was nominated for the AACTA International Award for Best Actress, [18] the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, [18] and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. [19] In 2019, Theron starred in Jay Roach's drama Bombshell, based upon the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. [20] Theron's performance in the film garnered critical acclaim and earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, [21] the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, [22] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. [7]
Award | Year | Ref(s) |
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Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2005 | [1] |
Indie Impact Award | 2012 | [87] |
American Cinematheque Award | 2019 | [88] [89] |
Hollywood Career Achievement Award | [90] |
Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Monster is a 2003 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Patty Jenkins in her feature directorial debut. The film follows serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a street prostitute who murdered seven of her male clients between 1989 and 1990 and was executed in Florida in 2002. It stars Charlize Theron as Wuornos, and Christina Ricci as her semi-fictionalized lover, Selby Wall.
Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
Caitríona Mary Balfe is an Irish actress. She began working as a fashion model in Paris at age 18 but refocused on acting 10 years later. She had leading roles in the series The Beauty Inside (2012) and H+: The Digital Series (2012–2013), and appeared in the films Super 8 (2011), Now You See Me (2013), Escape Plan (2013), Money Monster (2016), and Ford v Ferrari (2019). Balfe rose to prominence when she played Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama television series Outlander (2014–2023), for which she received four Golden Globe Award nominations. Her performance in Belfast (2021) earned her nominations for the Golden Globe and the British Academy Film Awards.
Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress who made her film debut in an uncredited role as a follower of a cult in the 1995 horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Theron followed this with appearances as a hitman’s girlfriend in 2 Days in the Valley, a waitress in the romantic comedy Trial and Error (1997), and a woman plagued with demonic visions in the mystery thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997) with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. She appeared in the science fiction thriller The Astronaut's Wife with Johnny Depp, and Lasse Hallström's The Cider House Rules. For her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the crime drama Monster (2003), Theron received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The following year, she played Swedish entertainer Britt Ekland in the biographical film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
Tully is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, written by Diablo Cody, and starring Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston, and Mark Duplass. The film follows the friendship between a mother of three and her night nanny. It is the third collaboration between director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, following the films Juno (2007) and Young Adult (2011), the last of which also starred Theron.
Bombshell is a 2019 American drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based on the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.
The Old Guard is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Greg Rucka, based on his comic book of the same name. The film stars Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Harry Melling, Veronica Ngo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and follows a team of immortal mercenaries on a revenge mission.