Some candid photos of Charlize Theron
Long before flirting with fame thanks to her Hollywood career, Charlize Theron, born August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa, had to face very dark hours. In 1991, an intern at the National Arts School in Johannesburg, Charlize came to spend a weekend with her family. It is then that her mother, Gerda, kills her alcoholic and violent father, Charles, in front of her eyes. In self-defense, Charlize's mother is not prosecuted.
After this traumatic event, Charlize devoted herself to her artistic career, supported by her mother who entered her in a modeling competition. Big winner, the teenager travels the world for several months, before embarking on a career as a dancer in New York. Following a serious knee injury, she gave up this job and started acting.
In 1994, she made a decisive encounter for the rest of her career; John Crosby, Hollywood talent scout. She enrolled in acting classes and made her big screen debut in Two days in the Valley in 1996. She was revealed to the general public in 1997 with The Devil's Partner alongside Keanu Reeves, her first commercial success. After a few films with mixed success (The spell of the jade scorpion, Bad trap, Sweet november), she returned to the top of the bill in 2003 with the Italian robbery. In 2003, she won the Oscar for best actress for her performance in the film Monster, in which she became ugly. In 2007, she turns under the direction of her companion, Stuart Townsend, Bataille à Seattle. The actress who alternates the registers participates in 2012 in two Hollywood super productions, Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus.
On the private side, she had a romance between 1997 and 2001 with singer Stephan Jenkins, then shared the life of actor Stuart Townsend (2002 to 2010). In March 2012, Charlize surprised everyone by solo adopting little Jackson, three months old, from South Africa. In January 2014, she formalizes her new love and appears on the arm of Sean Penn during a charity gala organized by the actor for the benefit of Haiti. But in June 2015 the rumors of the American tabloids announce the breakup of the couple. Charlize Theron adopts in August 2015, a little girl named August, born in the United States.
