Actress and producer Charlize Theron was born in both South Africa and the United States on August 7, 1975. The Oscar, the American Cinematheque Award, the Golden Globe for Best Actress, the Silver Bear for Best Actress, and numerous more honours are just a few of the numerous honours she has received. In 2016, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and as of 2019, she is among the highest-paid actors in the entire globe.
The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules, three Hollywood productions, contributed to Theron’s rise to fame internationally in the 1990s (1999).
For her depiction of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the movie Monster, for which she received favourable reviews from critics, she was awarded the Oscar for Best Actress in 2003. She became the first South African actor to receive an Oscar. In the drama North Country, she won a second Oscar nod for the part of a female sexual assault survivor who fought for justice (2005).
Stuart Townsend, an Irish actor, was born on December 15, 1972. Townsend was born in Howth, County Dublin, the son of English professional golfer Peter Townsend and Irish model Lorna Hogan. His younger brother Dylan works as a performer.
Stuart had his amateur stage debut in Colin Teevan’s Tear Up The Black Sail in 1993. Stuart studied acting at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. In the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned and in Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he played Lestat of Lioncourt and Dorian Gray, respectively (2003). He was the director of the 2007 movie Battle in Seattle.
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