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Charlize Theron
Birthdate: August 7, 1975

Charlize Theron

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1990s
2.9645
8
total ranking of 2.9645
2000s
3.0136
20
total ranking of 3.0136
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Charlize Theron is ranked overall as 3.1589 of of 4 stars3.1589

Charlize Theron Movie Rankings

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Charlize Theron starring in Monster
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.9830 out of 4 stars for Monster2.9830
Often considered America's first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos was convicted of killing six men while she was a roadside prostitute, trying to support herself and her girlfriend. ...more about Monster
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  • Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Actress
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
  • IFTA Awards - Best International Actress
  • Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
  • National Board of Review, USA - Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
  • National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
  • San Francisco Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  • Vancouver Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
2
Charlize Theron starring in That Thing You Do!
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.9595 out of 4 stars for That Thing You Do!2.9595
A small local band rockets their way up the pop charts with there hit song "That Thing You Do!" When a major record label signs the band, they are put on tour and begin to get a taste of fame. Soon their new status begins to gnaw at their band and friendships. ...more about That Thing You Do!
3
Charlize Theron starring in Cider House Rules
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.9058 out of 4 stars for Cider House Rules2.9058
This is the story of a compassionate young man (Maguire), raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor by the abortionist (Caine) who runs the orphanage. ...more about Cider House Rules
4
North Country (2005)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.8676 out of 4 stars for North Country2.8676
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota. ...more about North Country
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
  • Satellite Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  • Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
5
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.8444 out of 4 stars for In the Valley of Elah2.8444
When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq, his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son. ...more about In the Valley of Elah
  • Not Available on DVD
6
Italian Job, The (2003)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.8370 out of 4 stars for Italian Job2.8370
When a member of the gang double crosses Charlie and the rest by stealing the booty, the gang uses high tech toys and tiny cars to steal back their loot and get even with the backstabber. ...more about Italian Job
7
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.7813 out of 4 stars for 2 Days in the Valley2.7813
John Herzfeld deftly welds together a multitude of subplots-- a loser hitman and a cool assassin involved in an insurance scam; a washed-up director, turned suicidal, if only he had someone to care for his beloved dog; a snooty art dealer, wracked by ...more about 2 Days in the Valley
8
Yards, The (2000)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.7348 out of 4 stars for Yards2.7348
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. ...more about Yards
9
Men of Honor (2000)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.7331 out of 4 stars for Men of Honor2.7331
The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. ...more about Men of Honor
10
Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The (2001)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6832 out of 4 stars for Curse of the Jade Scorpion2.6832
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. ...more about Curse of the Jade Scorpion
11
Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6710 out of 4 stars for Legend of Bagger Vance2.6710
A disillusioned war veteran, Capt. Rannulph Junah (Matt Damon), reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf. ...more about Legend of Bagger Vance
Actor Awards
  • Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance
12
15 Minutes (2001)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6696 out of 4 stars for 15 Minutes2.6696
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. ...more about 15 Minutes
13
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (2004)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6555 out of 4 stars for Life and Death of Peter Sellers2.6555
Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. ...more about Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Actor Awards
  • Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
14
Devil's Advocate, The (1997)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6455 out of 4 stars for Devil's Advocate2.6455
Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality. ...more about Devil's Advocate
Actor Awards
  • Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama
15
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6061 out of 4 stars for Mighty Joe Young2.6061
The movie opens with poachers attacking a group of gorillas. Animal preservationists fight the poachers, which ends with one gorilla and a young girl's mother dead. ...more about Mighty Joe Young
Actor Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
16
Trial and Error (1997)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.6054 out of 4 stars for Trial and Error2.6054
Lawyer Charles Tuttle is defending his wife's relative Benny Gibbs in a class action fraud suit, but when he gets to the city where court takes place, he gets drunk and the following day, when the hearings begin, his friend, actor Richard Rietti takes ...more about Trial and Error
17
Celebrity (1998)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.5974 out of 4 stars for Celebrity2.5974
Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. ...more about Celebrity
18
Astronaut's Wife, The (1999)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.5119 out of 4 stars for Astronaut's Wife2.5119
Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. ...more about Astronaut's Wife
19
Hancock (2008)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.4510 out of 4 stars for Hancock2.4510
There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility - everyone knows that - everyone, that is, but Hancock. ...more about Hancock
  • Not Available on DVD
20
Trapped (2002)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.3731 out of 4 stars for Trapped2.3731
Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. ...more about Trapped
21
Reindeer Games (2000)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.3384 out of 4 stars for Reindeer Games2.3384
After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. ...more about Reindeer Games
22
Sweet November (2001)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.3117 out of 4 stars for Sweet November2.3117
Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara (Charlize Theron). She is very different from the other women in his life. ...more about Sweet November
Actor Awards
  • Razzie Awards - Worst Actress
23
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.2441 out of 4 stars for Head in the Clouds2.2441
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. ...more about Head in the Clouds
24
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 2.0121 out of 4 stars for Waking Up in Reno2.0121
Roy & Candy and Lonnie Earl & Darlene are two married couples who thought they knew one another, until they decided to take their dream vacation together. ...more about Waking Up in Reno
25
Sleepwalking (2008)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 1.8376 out of 4 stars for Sleepwalking1.8376
When a young girl (AnnaSophia Robb, BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA) is abandoned by her mother, it's up to the 11-year-old's uncle (Nick Stahl, SIN CITY) to take care of her. ...more about Sleepwalking
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Aeon Flux (2005)
Charlize Theron scores a combined 1.5381 out of 4 stars for Aeon Flux1.5381
In this futuristic sci-fi thriller set 400 years in the future, Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the top underground operative at war with the totalitarian regime governing what appears to be a perfect society. ...more about Aeon Flux
  • Not Available on DVD
27
Brazilian Job, The (2008)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Battle in Seattle (2008)
No Reviews Available
Actor Stuart Townsend directs his longtime lady love (and Oscar winner) Charlize Theron in this drama about the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. ...more about Battle in Seattle
  • Not Available on DVD