Charlize Theron South African Actress Born 1975 in Benoni

Charlize Theron (7 August 1975, Benoni) is a South African actress. She is recognised as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Career

Her first listed screen credit dates to 1995, with Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Work from the 1990s includes Celebrity (1998) and The Cider House Rules (1999). The Italian Job (2003) and Hancock (2008, as Mary Embrey) are among her 2000s credits. In the 2010s, she appeared in Prometheus (2012, as Meredith Vickers) and The Fate of the Furious (2017, as Cipher). The 2020s brought Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022, as Clea) and The Odyssey (2026, as Calypso).

The list below counts 52 films and one TV series from 1995 to 2026. Drama is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (19), followed by action (15) and fantasy (9). Of her seven titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, The Fate of the Furious (2017) has the highest, at $1.24 billion.

Jason Statham appears in four of her listed titles, including F9 (2021) and Fast X (2023). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Michelle Rodriguez (four titles) and Helen Mirren (three titles). F. Gary Gray directed two of her titles on record. Woody Allen is credited as director on two of them, including The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001). The Instagram account had 7.8M followers when last counted in January 2026.

Recognition

Among her honours is the Academy Award for Best Actress, won in 2004 for Monster. Other wins include the Saturn Award for Best Actress for Mad Max: Fury Road and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Among her nominations is the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2006 for North Country. In all, Charlize Theron has won 8 awards and received 3 nominations.

Personal life

She has 2 children on record.