2003
Monster
Plays Aileen Wuornos and wins the Best Actress Oscar.
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THERON
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A career shaped by transformation and resolve
Oscar-winning actor and producer known for Monster, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Odyssey.
Benoni, South Africa
From dramatic character to action icon
Charlize Theron is a South African-born actor and producer whose work ranges from intimate dramas to action films.
After early screen roles in films including The Devil’s Advocate and The Cider House Rules, she played Aileen Wuornos in Patty Jenkins’s Monster. That performance won her the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 2004 ceremony.
Her later work includes Imperator Furiosa in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road and the spy Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde. Theron also produced Atomic Blonde, taking a role behind the camera as well as in front of it.
Theron also received Academy Award nominations for North Country and Bombshell. In Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the FLM.RED catalogue credits her as Calypso.
The film links below come from the FLM.RED catalogue and do not represent a complete filmography.
Selected work
2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Plays Imperator Furiosa.
2017
Atomic Blonde
Stars as Lorraine Broughton and produces the film.
2026
The Odyssey
Appears as Calypso.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.