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At age 16 Theron moved to Milan to work as a model. Two years later she settled in New York City, where she continued to model and began studying at the Joffrey Ballet School. A knee injury ended her chances of a career in dance, however, and she attempted, unsuccessfully, to pursue acting jobs.

The Second Boer War military leader Danie Theron was her great-granduncle. She is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German. Her French forebears were early Huguenots in South Africa. She grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg.

Alongside her philanthropic work, and being a mother to her two daughters, she is also the face of luxury watchmaker Breitling for whom she is currently fronting a campaign.

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Theron, 48, enjoys a household full of girls with her two children, Jackson and August. "Oh, my God, they're so embarrassed by me constantly," the actress told E! News at her party for her Africa outreach project on July 13.

"When I was 27, I did Monster, I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I missed three meals, and I was back to my normal weight. "Then I did it at 43 for 'Tully,' and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, 'I think I'm dying because I cannot lose this weight.

Theron then goes on to explain that because no one in her neighbourhood spoke English and she took it as a second language at school, it wasn't until she moved that she focused on learning the language. "That's why it was easy for me to drop the [SA] accent because I was really learning English from scratch," she adds.

When blue-eyed Charlize Theron needed to become a psychotic serial killer for Monster, never mind that the real Aileen Wuornos had brown eyes – the blank impenetrable stare provided by dark contact lenses helped Theron on to an Oscar win.

Charlize Theron looks fabulous as a platinum blonde, but that's not her natural hue. The South African actress has a much darker color with ash brown streaks and some natural highlights.

After listing her longtime Hollywood Hills home earlier this year, the actress has picked up a modern farmhouse-style residence in the desirable Colfax Meadows neighborhood.

Does Charlize Theron have a daughter? ›

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Charlize became a United States citizen in May 2007, while retaining her South Africa dual citizenship. She was received by Nelson Mandala when she won her Oscar award by the Academy.

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She made the comments on the SmartLess podcast, saying she grew up in South Africa speaking only Afrikaans before learning English aged 19, which is why she speaks it with an American accent. Some of the millions who speak Afrikaans in South Africa were furious.

Theron received an education as a ballet dancer and has danced both the "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker". There was not much work for a young actress or dancer in South Africa, so she soon traveled to Europe and the United States, where she got a job at the Joffrey Ballet in New York.

The Oscar winner starred in the 2003 movie The Italian Job alongside actors Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, and Donald Sutherland. Like her famous male co-stars in the film, Theron, 44, had to undergo training before cameras rolled — but she says she was forced to train for six weeks longer than the men.

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She explained that she was largely inspired by her own upbringing in South Africa, which exposed her to orphanages and children in need in her community at a young age. "Even when I was in relationships, I was always honest with my partners, that adoption was how my family would look one day," Theron said.