Happy Birthday Charlize Theron!

Happy Birthday Charlize Theron!  One of Charlize Theron’s early film roles was as Helga Svelgen in the crime film, 2 Days in the Valley (1996).  She had a cameo role in Tom Hanks’ film That Thing You Do! (1996).  Theron played Mary Ann Lomax, the wife of Keanu Reeves’ character, in The Devil’s Advocate (1997).  She was brilliant as Jill Young in the remake of Mighty Joe Young (1998).  She plays Jillian Armacost in The Astronaut’s Wife (1999).  Theron was in the drama The Cider House Rules (1999) playing Candy Kendall.  She was in the action film, The Italian Job (2008) playing Stella Bridger.  Her most distinguished role was as serial killer, Aileen Wuoronos, in Monster (2003), directed by Patty Jenkins.  She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role.  Charlize Theron played the lead role in the live action adaptation of the sci fi animated series, Aeon Flux (2005).  She played the ex-wife of Will Smith’s character with powers of her own in Hancock (2008). 

Charlize Theron at Wondercon for Snow White and the Huntsman, 2012, photo by the author.

Theron had a part as The Woman in the adaptation of the apocalyptic novel The Road (2009).  She played the washed up fiction writer, Mavis Gary, in Young Adult (2011) from writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman.  She was the leader of the exploration crew, Meredith Vickers, in the sci fi film Prometheus (2012).  Next, she played the evil queen, Ravenna, in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).  One of her sensational roles was as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).  She returned as Ravenna in 2016’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War.  A brilliant part was Theron voicing Monkey in Kubo and the Two Strings (2016).  She played spy, Lorraine Broughton, in Atomic Blonde (2017).  Then, Theron played the manipulative villain, Cipher, in The Fate of the Furious (2017). She worked again with Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody in Tully (2018).  Theron starred in the comedy, Gringo playing the co-head of Promethium Pharmaceuticals.  She has produced and starred in this year’s film, Long Shot.  Happy Birthday Charlize Theron!   

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