Charlize Theron Biography

Biography

of modeling work, going all over Europe for a year before landed her feet in New York City, U.S.

Returned to her long-time desire of becoming a prima ballerina, the 18-years-old girl enrolled in The Big Apple's Joffrey Ballet School while still maintained her modeling career to finance her expenses. Sadly, she encountered a serious knee injury in her class which made her unable to keep pursuing her dream. As she poured down her grief to Gerda, the mother remembered her daughter's childhood passion for cinema, thus gave suggestion to try her hand at acting. Considering it quite a good idea, Charlize quickly packed up her things to go for her next destination: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. During her search for opportunity, she unexpectedly was approached by a talent manager named John Crosby after a ridiculous scene in a bank and delightfully became his client afterwards. Not only helped her to look for auditions, he also put the aspiring actress into Ivana Chubbuck's acting classes to remove her thick Afrikaans accent.

After some struggling months, Charlize finally encountered her first taste of cinematic experience through a brief appearance in "Children Of the Corn III" (1995). This was followed by a ...

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larger role in John Herzfeld's "2 Days In The Valley" (1996) alongside Jeff Daniels, James Spader, and Teri Hatcher. Despite the film's fair result, she managed to display an excellent performance which was well reviewed by critics, subsequently ignited people to pay attention on her, including Tom Hanks. Noticed her potentiality, the renowned actor then offered her a small part in his directorial debut, "That Thing You Do!" which also came up in the same year. Lauded "the most naturally confident and talented actress I have ever worked with" by Hanks, the blue-eyed beauty once again exhibited a brilliant enactment as Keanu Reeves' wife in "The Devil's Advocate" (1997), preventing the movie to be labeled a feature of supernatural silliness.

As this first leading role of her satisfyingly earned critical acclaim, the thriller flick also scored an amazing result in the box-office with the income of more than 60 million U.S. dollar. This great success automatically brought Charlize to wider exposure and recognition for she was included in the cast of Woody Allen's "Celebrity" as well as in Ron Underwood's "Mighty Joe Young," both came up in 1998. Kept exhibiting fantastic performances in her 1999 projects, namely "The Astronaut's Wife" ...