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How old was Charlize Theron when she moved to America? ›

During a visit home when she was 15, her mother shot and killed her father in self-defense after being attacked by him while he was drunk. 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.

She is the only child of road constructionists Gerda (née Maritz) and Charles Theron (27 November 1947 – 21 June 1991). 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.

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Theron, 48, enjoys a household full of girls with her two children, Jackson and August.

"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.

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.

Celebrities who stand out particularly for their rare eye colours include Charlize Theron and Emma Stone who have green eyes. Surprisingly, there are also quite a few celebrities with different eye colours (heterochromia) including Mila Kunis and Kiefer Sutherland.

August Theron

Charlize Theron / Daughter

I love the '80s. I'm a child of the '80s so I love '80s music. What was surprising to me as we were cutting the film and starting to put songs to it, a lot of the music from that time was really influenced by a lot of these political hot moments that were happening. I always loved “Under Pressure”.

How did Charlize Theron learn English? ›

Watching Films in English

Before Charlize Theron became a Hollywood star, she watched hundreds of films. This is a quick and effective way to learn English. Charlize, who is from South Africa, spoke only her native language of Afrikaans until she was 19. She learned English and set her sights on Hollywood.

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The second time, I realized I am happier and my kids are happier if I ask for more help … I have one nanny and my mom up the street and amazing friends and family.

She was the first African to win an acting Oscar. Charlize Theron was born on August 7, 1975, in the town of Benoni, in Gauteng province, near Johannesburg, South Africa. She grew up on a small farm in an Afrikaans-speaking family. As a teenager Theron went to a boarding school and studied ballet.

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.

August Theron

Charlize Theron / Daughter