Charlize Central

In 2003 Charlize Theron, 33, won an Oscar for her role in the film Monster. A versatile actress, she has starred in films as diverse The Life and Death of Peter Sellers to The Italian Job. Her own life has also been packed with drama - aged 15 while living in South Africa she witnessed her mother shoot her father dead in self-defence against his domestic violence. She now lives with Irish actor and boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, in Los Angeles.

What were your dreams as a child?
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. Life was simple for me in South Africa - I believed I was going to live in the same house until the day I died and I only spoke Afrikaans. I still speak Afrikaans today with Mum. I started going to ballet classes at the age of four and I learned a little English from my ballet teacher who had worked at the Royal Academy in London. I had a very active imagination as a child and I loved putting on make-up, costumes and playing characters or telling a story. Unfortunately I suffered a knee injury when I was 18 living in New York and the dancing stopped. I had been a flamenco dancer, too, but all of a sudden I could no longer do the things that had been open to me most of my life. I used to go to the New York City ballet by myself and cry. I still carry sorrow about it.
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