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Charlie Theron

The South African actress hits Thurrock's big screen this week in the new rather naff Huntsmen film, the films lame but she is certainly more than a pretty face in it.


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By the looks of Charlize Theron she could quite easily have simply capitalised on her Hollywood looks to make a fortune and enjoyed a spell on the red carpet feeling important. Maybe it was her hard learning curve from living in a windowless basement apartment in New York or the tough South African world she grew up in that influenced her to try and be a bit more daring and actually challenge herself but she has, in the main cut a career out of not playing flattering rolls but actually playing rather unpleasant and inverted characters that is a contrast to the cover girl looks she can frequently be seen sporting.
Born in Johannesburg in there 1970s she got the ambition to become a model, but really wanted to leave South Africa that, at that time was deeply in bedded with apartheid, right wing politics and terrorist groups. She moved to Italy with her Mother and then decided to study ballet in New York when she was still just a teenage. A nasty knee injury ended all this ambition and her years of dance study were effectively wasted.
She flew to LA and began trying to find acting work and with her exotic South African charm scored a number of roles in high profile films (after the initial dreadful "Children of the Corn 3") in "The Cider House Rules", "Mighty Joe Young", and the "Devils Advocate", whether this is what frog-leaped her to the A-list films was down to talent, looks or just luck is anyone's guess. What is beyond doubt is that she turned down roles of the soft porn Basic Instinct variety in favour of the gritty tough film "Monster" where she plays an on trial serial killer and so heavily made up that her acting had to do the talking. Since then she has scored a steady stream of roles that didn't require her to exploit her looks and demanded ability, as it should be, having said that she does keep turning up in pretentious and annoying perfume adds climbing up bits of rope but that's properly just her pension she's covering. Theron is currently out in the new huntsman movie, she's the evil ice queen and rather good, the film is pretty naff though.



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Source: inGrays.com


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