However, an injured knee put a halt to her dancing career.
Her next role was as Helga Svelgen in 2 Days in the Valley 1996 , which landed her the role of Tina Powers in That Thing You Do! On February 29, 2004, she won her first Academy Award, for her performance in Monster 2003.
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Theron is of Afrikaner Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German descent, and Afrikaner military figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle.
In 1994, her mother bought her a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, and Charlize started visiting all of the agents on Hollywood Boulevard, but without any luck.
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron née Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz and Charles Jacobus Theron.