Charlize Theron.
She is an actress, supermodel and film producer.
Charlize was born in South Africa. Her parents were of Dutch and German descent.
childhood photo
Her father was an alcoholic and was regularly abusive towards her and her mother.
When Charlize was 15 years old, her father became so violent that he wanted to kill her and her mother. While beating up her mother, he kept waving a handgun and threatening to kill both of them.
Charlize's mother managed to take out her own handgun and shoot him, killing him, right in front of Charlize.
The local police in that area already knew about her father's abusive behavior, so it was easily declared a case of self-defense.
That must have been very traumatic for Charlize, to watch one of her own parents kill the other.
Years later, Charlize said,
I just pretended like it didn’t happen. I didn’t tell anybody — I didn’t want to tell anybody.
Whenever anybody asked me, I said my dad died in a car accident. Who wants to tell that story?
Free from her abusive father, Charlize and her mother moved to Italy after Charlize won a modeling contract.
one of her photos from her earlier modelling days
But her lifelong dream was to become a dancer. After a year of modelling, she moved to the U.S, enrolled in a dance school and started taking dance classes.
But then disaster struck.
Just a few months into her classes, she suffered from a knee injury that forced her to drop out and quit dancing altogether. She couldn't dance anymore; she wasn't going to live her dream.
This made her very depressed. She spoke about it:
I realized I couldn't dance anymore, and I went into a major depression.
My mom came over from South Africa and said, "Either you figure out what to do next or you come home, because you can sulk in South Africa".
She then had to choose a different career path because she wasn’t making enough money from modelling.
She went into acting. She was scouted by a talent agent when she was arguing loudly with a bank teller.
Around the time she began auditioning for roles, she had no money. She lived off whatever little money her mother sent her from South Africa.
After a few small roles, her big break came in The Devil's Advocate (1997) where she starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. Since then, she has starred in many well-known movies, such as Monster, Snow White and the Huntsman, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Fate of the Furious.
Charlize in Snow White and the Huntsman
Charlize in Mad Max: Fury Road
Charlize in The Fate of the Furious
Charlize has been in a couple of relationships, including a very short marriage. She has always stated that she never wanted and never wants to get married.
Looking at how bad her parents’ marriage was and how it ended, it's easy to understand why.
She's adopted two little girls.
In 2019, she revealed that her seven-year-old child Jackson is a transgender girl.
She stated
They were born who they are, and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.
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