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     Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, South Africa on August 7th, 1975. Charlize began her modeling career in 1991, at 16, when Charlize Theron won a local modeling contest. Charlize Theron started modeling in Europe, and came to New York a year later. Her first role was as a young mother in a park in a B-film in 1995, but it was a non-speaking role with three seconds of screen time. Her next role was as Helga in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), which landed her the role of Tina in That Thing You Do! (1996). Since then, Charlize has starred in movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Italian Job (2003). An important day in her life was February 29th, 2004, when Charlize Theron was awarded with her first Academy Award for her performance in Monster (2003). Charlize Theron also recently starred in Aeon Flux (2005), North Country (2005), Head in the Clouds (2004) and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).