Charlize Theron is a South African-American actress and producer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg.
Although seeing herself as a dancer, at age 16 Theron won a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in Salerno and moved with her mother to Milan, Italy.
Charlize Theron Parents: Meet Charles Jacobus Theron, Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz
Charles Jacobus Theron and Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz are best known as the parents of Charlize Theron.
On 21 June 1991, Theron’s father, Charles Jacobus Theron an alcoholic, threatened both teenage Charlize and her mother Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz while drunk, physically attacking her mother and firing a gun at both of them.
Theron’s mother Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz retrieved her handgun, shot back, and killed him. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense, and her mother faced no charges.