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      • Theron adopted a son, Jackson, in 2012, and three years later she adopted her daughter, August.
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  2. May 18, 2020 · In June 1991, when actress Charlize Theron was just 15 years old, she experienced a horrific incident. Her mother Gerda killed her father Charlie right in front of her in an act of self-defense.

  3. In 2007, Theron became a naturalised citizen of the United States, [126] while retaining her South African citizenship. [ 127 ] Theron has adopted two children: a daughter in March 2012 [ 128 ] and another daughter in July 2015. [ 129 ]

  4. Charles Theron was shot and killed by his wife, Theron's mother Gerda Maritz, in 1991. The actress, who grew up during apartheid in South Africa, was 15 years old, asleep in bed when her...

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  5. Nov 2, 2019 · BEING A MOTHER HERSELF. The mother-of-two adopted her first child, Jackson, in her late thirties and she said it was the best thing she could’ve done.

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    Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle.

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

    In 1994, her mother bought her a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, and Charlize started visiting all of the agents on Hollywood Boulevard, but without any luck. She went to a bank to cash a check for $500 she received from her mother, and became furious when she learned that the bank would not cash it because it was an out-of-state check. She made a s...

    Her first role was in the B-film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995), a non-speaking part with three seconds of screen time. Her next role was as Helga Svelgen in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), which landed her the role of Tina Powers in That Thing You Do! (1996). Since then, she has starred in movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Migh...

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  6. Oct 17, 2023 · While Charlize Theron has long idolized her mother, telling The Guardian that she is the living person she most admires, the same cannot be said for her father. "My father was a very sick man....

  7. Apr 2, 2014 · The Theron household was an unhappy one, and as Charles struggled with alcoholism, he became physically abusive. In 1991, when Theron was 15, her father violently attacked her and her...