“That’S my natural hair colour,” snaps Charlize Theron, nodding at the poster for her new film, In The Valley Of Elah, in which she plays a no-nonsense policewoman in Tennessee doing some pretty hardcore murder investigation. Detective Emily Saunders’s hair is a middling brown, parted in the middle and scraped back into a ponytail. “You know, if you don’t consider the character beautiful, that is really me,” she goes on, brutally. “My natural hair colour, very little make-up and no prosthetics. That is me.”

It is hardly surprising that Theron is tired of journalists – or anyone else – marvelling at the fact that a star with such old-style Hollywood looks, the kind that make you think of Ginger Rogers or Grace Kelly, is prepared to look so dowdy on screen.
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Despite the sudden rise and slow decline of skin-baring laddy mags in recent years, U.S. males still seem eager to contemplate the relative hotness of modern screen sirens. Yet in this marketplace crowded with Top This or Top That lists, Esquire’s annual Sexiest Woman Alive issue has remained at the top of the heap, aided by the magazine’s sass, wit, and top-notch art direction. The unveiling of Esquire’s favorite female is now a bona fide media event, speculated on in hundreds of online forums and teased in four preceding issues of the magazine with images that obscure the woman’s identity.

Los Angeles-based photographer Sheryl Nields, who has made a name for herself with her portraits of famously beautiful women, created the photos of Esquire’s 2007 Sexiest Woman Alive, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron. Nields admits that it makes her job easier to work with someone like Theron, who is often compared to classic screen beauties like Grace Kelly. But the teaser photos that appeared in the lead-up issues presented a challenge: They had to be sexy without capturing the famous traits that make Theron recognizable.
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JustJared has posted some fantastic photos of Charlize receiving her Hasty Pudding award and at the parade. Click here to view them all now. I will have some HQs available in the gallery within the next couple of days.

I just added some new scans of Charlize in the February 2008 issue of Tatler magazine to the gallery. Please excuse the lackluster quality of the cover image. My scanner seems to be having some issues with glossy paper at the moment, but I hope to have that worked out soon. Enjoy the new article.

Charlize is featured in a Hitchcock inspired photoshoot in the March 2008 issue of Vanity Fair and thanks to Riikka, we have screencaps from the behind the scenes video of Charlize’s piece, ‘Dial M For Murder’. Click here to watch the video, which features Renée Zellweger, Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson and many other wonderful actors. Click here or on the images below to view all the screencaps.

Scans of Charlize in the Winter 2008 issue of MovieMaker magazine are now available in the gallery. I really enjoyed the interview and hope you guys will to.

IESB.net has posted 3 new clips from the film ‘Sleepwalking’. Click here to view them all now.

Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron met up with director Amy Redford (yes, she is Robert’s daughter) at the Sundance Film Festival to talk about Charlize portraying Hedy Lamarr – one of Hollywood’s legendary beauties.

In the Forties and Fifties, Lamarr had a face the camera loved. It was just a shame the rest of her couldn’t act.

But she was far from a brainless beauty. During World War II, she helped invent a radio guidance system that was used in torpedoes – and is still used in satellite transmissions and mobile phones today (although because she let the patents lapse, she never benefited financially).
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