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Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is a South African-born American actress and producer. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, becoming the first African to win in a major acting category. Theron has also starred in Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Bombshell (2019). In 2019, she became a UN Messenger of Peace and is known for her work fighting AIDS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize_Theron
bluboy80
Love her.
DeadnCold
Why can't we get more South Africans like her? Why we gotta get ones like Elon and his whole family?
UnlimitedTrickPony
It doesn’t matter… she will remain involuntarily single forever and cry about it in every interview, just like she did in the past. The best thing about it is that she doesn’t understand why it’s happening to her.
GravitySmellsLikeCheese
@OP missed out her finest movie Atomic Blonde
Mcknizzle
Okay fine is guess
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
DrSharkbite
SebastianCrab
Mr. F!
fivefrozenfishfingers
Monster put me in a depressive episode that lasted three days. Kudos to her performance.
wisher1977
“The Ron!”
TeddyMoment
Hyperdrive, which Charlize produced, was pretty fricken cool. It was like Sasuke (American Ninja Warrior), but with cars. I'm bummed there was only one season.
SideshowBobsotheravatar
Not to forget Atomic Blonde and The Old Guard
dirkderkdurk
Atomic Blonde was SO good! I love how they actually get tired and worn out during fighting.
pompoikpoik
I'm not sure whether or not I'm racist but it sounds weird to me to read the "first African to..."
Gut95
2 days in the valley was a great movie of hers
tuuuesday
MR F
Tolocamp
I know it is hard to see, but does her colonial heritage make her really the first african to win in a major role ? Just babblin' but this feels fundamentally wrong on some level, like a twisted form of blackface to call her that.
iamlegendinjapan
I like her in the Italian Job
miked854
That movie set off a whole stunt driving sub-career for her. She did several of her own stunts in that, more stunts in fury road, the Fast and Furious movie she was in and produced a driving competition show on Netflix.
ZLOK
I'm not sure why she is The Ron, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
bolobass
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YippeeKayakOB
I have often wondered how Tilda Swindon would have played Aeon
Otomasoteraph
Big Sgnacchera!
glovelyday
StephenDaniels
She needs to learn to run sideways.
FatBastardVegetarian
She crushed it on "Hot Ones"
Outraider
somehow feels wrong to call her "first african to win"
pullingsixty
Yes it does.
RexRexroththe1st
frenofafren
2 Days in the Valley.
RexRexroththe1st
Late 90's a strange but interesting era for movies.
frenofafren
I miss thin eyebrows.
Totallycasual
Atomic Blonde was awesome too, she made a very stylish 80's era spy 😍
bolobass
Where everyone in west Berlin was apparently driving a Porsche. The movie had some interesting bits but the setting was framed incredibly poorly. Like Miami Vice bad.
theSpinnerBoy
Atomic Blonde is some great fight scenes, some soft porn, some great acting by James McAvoy, and some good music. The plot is a bit of a mess.
Totallycasual
Yeah, but it wasn't meant to be a serious spy flick, it would be like admonishing Die Hard for not being an accurate cop movie lol
MapleSyrupMafia
He did shoot a lot of people.
Totallycasual
Yeah, but they were all bad guys, none of them were innocent people begging for their lives or reaching for their wallets lol
Profozpin
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secularink
https://youtu.be/9G2T0ad1-h4 "Pistol Packin' Mama"
TORQD
I feel it important that we all remember that Sean Penn (noted goat extortionist beneathe the bridge) actually *cheated* on her. So there, if you ever feel dumb, remember that Sean Penn is dumber than you.
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rbudrick
Then why does she still say he was the love of her life and she wishes she was still with him?
Acquiredtaste
Unless you are Sean Penn himself, then you are exactly as dumb as Sean Penn. I have no idea however how much this is in Fahrenheit.
esparadrapo
When your relationship history includes being married to Madonna and Robin Wright my best guess is that he knows he's got it so not necessarily "dumb".
Vidikron
That scenario reminds me of how Hugh Grant cheated on Elizabeth Hurley.
KitchenClean
Or how Jay Z cheated on Beyoncé, or Ethan Hawke on Uma Thurman
FrankPembleton
OliverClothesoff70
Beauty on her level is incredibly rare but it isn’t the only factor in a relationship. None of us has any idea what was going on with them.
malbec
People arent perfect. Using someone’s imperfection as an excuse to cheat just shows how much worse you are.
BonkyMcSignFace
As the famous scientist Albert Einstein once mused, “show me the most beautiful woman in the world and I’ll show you a guy who is sick of her shit”. However, in this particular case I fell in love with Charlize after I saw her on between two ferns and I can’t imagine anyone ever getting sick of her shit
StephenDaniels
I have 1 idea, Sean Penn is a troubled soul. I'm no expert but there is no doubt in my mind that he is not at peace.
johnblood616
Yeah, calling a guy who tied Madonna to a chair and beat the shit out of her "troubled"
duktayp
"woman of 1000 faces" https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExb3UxcWU2NmJoaDdsbHJwbWN5MGRxdzM4NjNqbWd2MG0yMHhsZjFkYiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/pFTDTFwDS3mnK/giphy.gif
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
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JoeMalmsteen
Anyone else think "Jon Voight in drag"?
AvidApostate
It's amazing how much lack-of-eyebrows contributed to this look.
Fynndango
And the fake teeth
doppelfisch
I read an interview with her regarding putting on the weight for that role. I'm paraphrasing here but she said something along the lines of how amazing it was to eat a cheeseburger and not have to care.
InfocalypseRising
Filed under "movies I know I saw but would struggle to tell you anything about"
yeahhedugit
Monster
j4gr
Not to be confused with Monster’s Ball
ImAGrower
Or Monsters, Inc.
walnutbreath
FelonyRaptor
Ah, lovely Rita Leeds. And about the same time this
nuppydog
MR F
boxmeister
"MISTA EFF"
hyptosis
Rita was so amazing. I really understood why Michael was so confused. She was lovely looking and made him feel young again with her innocent and kindness.
hyptosis
innocence
hyptosis
yeah, that's what I meant
hyptosis
okay, don't get butt hurt, just trying to help
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
TwiceK
Yup. In the same way the richest man on the planet is an African American.
Vellax
Reminds me of Australian Survivor a few years back, where a white South African told an African American that she (the SA) was more African than her, because she's actually from Africa. Didn't go down well.
TyPfhhv
ZA for South Africa and SA for Saudi Arabia ^_^ I feel "Euro African" is a better descriptor for whites, like myself, born and raised in Africa. Just like how I feel if we label blacks in America as "African American", white Americans should have the moniker "Euro American" But that's just me. :p
Tengenstein
Eh, its all a mess once you try bringing ethnicity into it and putting people in neat little boxes. I've got mate a whose parents immigrated to britain during the Windrush, they are black, their daughter is black, if she immigrated to the US is she African American? Euro American? british American? Caribbean American? Mess.
TZO2k15
Afrikaner NOT AFRICAN...
jamiedBreaker
Can you explain the difference plz?
TZO2k15
It was a brutal takeover of a sovereign land and its people, after which, it fuelled a white supremacist policy in which white Afrikaners were considered, and legally deemed the superior race/class. And the native Africans were far less than equal, it was an ugly and brutal time for native Africans.
TZO2k15
Downvotes won't change history...
NeonGravestoneLights
White people from places like Germany or the Netherlands that settled, or emigrated, in South Africa, but carry no actual native African blood. They speak Afrikaans which is a variation of Dutch. Noted that these people are also responsible for apartheid.
jamiedBreaker
So that is "Afrikaner"? Is there any difference in pronunciation other than the "R"? Thanks for the info
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
I believe it is pronounced (Afri - k ahhh -ner) as in when the dentist says open up and say "ahhh" with a k in front of it.