Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning actress. She has also won two Emmy Awards, two MTV Movie Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, among other honors. Theron made her professional debut in the film The Burning Season (1993), which was followed by roles in the films A Dry White Season (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and North Country (2005). With her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), she became the first actress to ever win an Academy Award for playing a murderer in a leading role
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She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her performance in The Cider House Rules. Her work in North Country earned her nominations for Top Female Performance by the Boston Society of Film Critics, Best Supporting Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture by the National Board of Review.