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Biography. Gerda Theron. Jump to Edit. Mini Bio. Gerda Theron was previously married to Charles Theron. Family. Spouse. Charles Theron (? - 1990) (his death, 1 child) Children. Charlize Theron. Trivia. Mother of Charlize Theron. She is the daughter of Johanna Maria Barindina (Stofberg) and Jacob Johannes Maritz.
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Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle.
Theron received an education as a ballet dancer and has danced both the \\"Swan Lake\\" and \\"The Nutcracker\\". There was not much for a young actress or dancer to do in South Africa, so she soon traveled to Europe and the United States, where she got job at the Joffrey Ballet in New York. She was also able to work as a photo model. However, an injur...
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. She went to a bank to cash a check for $500 she received from her mother, and became furious when she learned that the bank would not cash it because it was an out-of-state check. She made a s...
Her first role was in the B-film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995), a non-speaking part with three seconds of screen time. 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! (1996). Since then, she has starred in movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997), Migh...
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- August 7, 1975
Dec 17, 2019 · Published on December 16, 2019 07:31PM EST. Charlize Theron is opening up about the night her mother killed her father in self-defense. The Bombshell actress, 44, spoke to NPR about her father...
Apr 2, 2014 · Actress and philanthropist Charlize Theron was born on August 7, 1975, in rural Benoni, South Africa, to co-owners of a road construction company, Charles and Gerda. The Afrikaans-speaking family ...
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Jun 2, 2017 · One of the cases he focused on was that of Theron's beloved mother Gerda Maritz, whom he suspected might not have been entirely truthful about the events of that tragic evening in 1991. The author ...
Oct 12, 2023 · Charlize Theron is a single mother to two adopted daughters. Instagram. Charlize Theron continued to develop her acting career in the late 2000s and 2010s, working in acclaimed films, like "North ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Charlize Theron paid tribute to her mom, Gerda, on her recent 69th birthday with an Instagram post showing snapshots of their life together. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Alamy) The city they live in is home to palm trees towering over broad boulevards, movie sets sprawling below sun-bleached hillsides and the fabulous mansions of some of the biggest ...
