Charlize Theron with her mother Gerda

31 august 2008 Charlize Theron holds hands with her mother Gerda after having lunch at Hotel Cipriani in Venice, Italy on Sunday.

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Charlize Theron;

-Date of Birth; 7 August 1975, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa

-When she was 15 her father Charles attacked her mother Gerda, and her mother shot him in self-defense. He died, but her mother was not charged in the incident.
-First language is Afrikaans, English is spoken as her second language.

-Both her parents are Africans, born and raised in South Africa. However her father is of French descent and her mother of German descent.

-Dated Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of the band Third Eye Blind, from January 1998 to July 2001.

-She has been dating Irish actor Stuart Townsend since August 2001. Met fiancé Stuart Townsend on the set of Trapped (2002).