In the post-apocalyptic drama “The Road,” Charlize Theron plays a wife and mother who yearns to commit suicide because she can’t handle the overwhelming bleakness surrounding her.
In “The Burning Plain,” which opens Friday, the 34-year-old portrays a miserable restaurateur whose guilt over past secrets manifests itself in empty sex and self-abuse.
Pretty heavy stuff.
But don’t think Theron isn’t aware of how tough it can be to sell such dark stories to a movie-going audience that is largely looking for lighter subject matter amid the slumping economy.

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Don’t call Charlize Theron anything but an actress. “When somebody calls me a movie star, I worry a bit,” she says. “It used to be about the work, but now it means you show up at the Oscars and look good.”
The South African beauty, 34, who moved to New York to model and pursue ballet as a teenager, admits she started acting when a knee injury forced her to quit dancing.
“The whole model-turned-actress thing doesn’t have a good track record,” she tells the Style section of the U.K’s Sunday Times newspaper, “Today, younger girls are addicted to the fame, but that is not me. I keep all that stuff private.”
And true to her word, there …

South African Oscar winner Charlize Theron has teamed up with designer Shea Mullen of Give and Take tees to create four limited-edition T-shirts that will benefit Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP).
The vintage-inspired tees are $50 each, with $25 going directly to CTAOP, which aims to create a better life for young people in South Africa, especially those living in remote regions with a high chance of contracting HIV.
Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project will put the money raised toward helping to provide sustainable health care, education and recreational outlets, including soccer fields, in these areas.
The four styles feature either the South African Baobab tree scrawled with CTAOP’s motto: “Look Within, Think Beyond and Reach Out” …

She’s a beautiful, successful actress with millions in the bank, an Oscar on the sideboard and an enviable long-term relationship – but there’s still one thing that keeps Charlize Theron awake at night: the fear that her cupboards are messy.
The 34-year-old South African has admitted she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, which makes her irrationally anxious about tidy cabinets.
The actress, who won her Oscar for Monster in 2004, said: ‘I actually have a serious problem – obsessive-compulsive disorder. I don’t do counting or anything like that. I’m good with chaos, I just don’t like it when chaos is hidden.
‘So I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in cabinets and closing the …

CHARLIZE THERON
went to great lengths to ensure the paparazzi didn’t crash filming for her nude scenes in upcoming movie THE BURNING PLAIN – by shooting at the crack of dawn.
The Oscar winner disrobes for her role in the upcoming drama and is seen smoking a cigarette through an open window in full view of passers-by.
But movie bosses were worried photographers would catch the star naked once they discovered the location of the shoot – so they changed the time of filming to make sure Theron’s scenes were kept secret.
Director Guillermo Arriaga tells New York Post’s gossip column PageSix, ‘We had to shoot the scene at 6am before any of the photographers were up. It was …

“I’m very proud of that Oscar and I understand what an honour it is because I have so many actors I admire tremendously that have never experienced that,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying.
The actress had taken home the prize for her role of real-life murderer Aileen Wuornos in ‘Monster’.
The beauty has in fact placed it at a place in her house where people can notice it.
She added: “It’s in my office, right next to a bathroom that lots of people use in the house. People will come up and be like, ”I just walked past an Oscar.” I’ll be like, ”Isn’t that awesome?”
Source: Times of India

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Hollywood actress Charlize Theron hit rock bottom when her dreams of becoming a prima ballerina were shattered but it was her mother who encouraged her to try her luck at acting instead.
The South African beauty trained as a ballet dancer in New York City, but a knee injury at 19 left her devastated and ruined any chance she had of turning her passion into a career. Now the star has heaped praise on her mother for helping her out of her slump and launching her Hollywood career, reported imdb.com.
‘I remember at night, crying my eyes out and eating four pints of ice cream because I couldn’t dance anymore, and my mom saying ‘Well, why don’t …

Charlize Theron knows “a lot” of sex addicts.
The Burning Plain actress understands the pain and confusion that surround sexual obsessions, and the way they tear families apart.
The 34-year-old star: “I’ve personally met a lot of parents, actually, who’ve lost children because they’re suffering from sex addiction and they tend to split up.
“It’s not that one would consciously cheat, but it really is a moment that’s not about the sex. When you’re addicted to it, things actually happen to your body and to your brain that chemically changes you, and so it is like shooting heroin or having a drink.”
Theron denies ever suffering from an addiction herself, but admits her father battled with various dependencies when …

Charlize Theron owes her career to a late-night meltdown with her mom.
The Oscar winner, 34, whose romantic drama Burning Plain is in theaters now, opens up during her Quintessentially-sponsored NYC premiere.
What has been the defining moment of her life so far?
“I’ve had a few, I have to say,” the South African-born stunner tells me. “I remember at night, at like 2 in the morning, with my mom in the City in a basement on, like, 21st Street, crying my eyes out and eating four pints of ice cream because I couldn’t dance anymore, and my mom saying ‘well, why don’t you try acting?’ I mean … because of some crazy moment at 2 a.m. with …

The South African-born actress became an American citizen in 2007 but initially outstayed her welcome in the States when she was struggling to find work after her breakthrough role in Two Days In The Valley.
As her work visa expired, Theron was still fighting for roles in Hollywood – and had just landed a role opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate when immigration officials caught up with her.
She explains, ‘I had to hold out for two years after playing the femme fatale in Two Days In The Valley because people wanted me to play that role. I think there was a conscious effort on my part to hold back and …