Charlize Theron The Beginning

Charlize Theron is born in Benoni, South Africa, in a family where her father, Charles, had French origins and her mother, Gerda, had German origins . “Theron” is a last name of occitana origin, pronounced correctly “Tronn”, but it prefers pronounces it European “Thrown”.

Charlize Theron has a traumatic childhood. Often left alone by her parents in their property near Johannesburg. She attends the elementary school of Putfontein; later on she is sent to college at the age of 13 years and successively she began the “National School of the Limbs” to Johannesburg. At fifteen-year-old she witness the death of her alcoholic father, killed in legitimate defense by her wife who he tried to assault, which was saved from the homicide accusation.

The following year, helped by her mother, gains the international competition for young models “New Model Today” of Positano. She decides therefore to move to Milan in order to become a model. Here Charlize Theron becomes famous for a commercial , “acclimatized Martini” .

Later on she moves to New York and, at the first opportunity, she abandons the world of the fashion in order to return to her first love: dance. An injury at the age of the nineteen years forced her to abandon the dance career.

On 1995 she left to Los Angeles thanks to an one-way ticket that her mother bought , in order to follow the road of Hollywood. A day, finding herself in a bank in order to withdraw a check that her mother had sent to her in order to help her with the rent, finds the hostility of the cassiera that refuses to deliver her the money, thus immediately the young Charlize started a dispute. Fortune wanted that “talent agent” behind she and, having observed all the scene, he gave his business card. The agent reveals himself very useful for carried out her in the cinema, in fact introduces her to a lot of auditions and also to a act school. Later on, he will refuse to be Charlize's manager.

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