Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron ( ; ; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, She is the only child of road builders She grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg.

When Theron was 15, on 21 June 1991, her mother killed her father in self-defense. It happened after her father, an alcoholic, Theron's mother retrieved her own handgun, shot back and killed him.

Growing up, Theron felt she did not fit in at school and was teased by other girls. She was frequently unwell with jaundice throughout childhood and the antibiotics she was administered made her upper incisor baby teeth rot; they had to be surgically removed. Theron's permanent teeth did not grow until she was roughly ten years old. She attended Putfontein Primary School (Laerskool Putfontein). At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. About her early life in her home country, Theron has said: "I grew up as an only child in South Africa, and there was turmoil in my family, but the surroundings were so great. I was usually barefoot in the dirt: no Game Boys, no computers, and we had sanctions, so there were no concerts. This meant you had to entertain yourself." That same year, she won a one-year modelling contract and moved with her mother to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year modelling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the United States; they resided in New York City and Miami. In New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path. As Theron recalled in 2008: