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| In a revelatory and Oscar winning performance, Charlize Theron stars in the shocking and moving true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute executed in 2003 after being convicted of murdering six men. While Wuornos confessed to the six murders, including a policeman, she claimed to have killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults while working as a prostitute...
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Written and directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci, MONSTER is a powerful drama that burrows beneath the tabloid headlines to unearth the human story behind America's first female serial killer.
Amidst the horror, MONSTER unearths an unlikely love story between two misfits. Aileen Wuornos (Theron), the victim of a tragic, abusive upbringing, is a drifter and a prostitute. Selby Wall (Ricci) is a young woman sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida to 'cure' her homosexuality. The women are outcasts but the love they both feel provides meaning to their lives.
Unable to find a legitimate job, and desperate to continue her relationship with Selby, Wuornes continues to work the streets as a prostitute.
When one of her clients' turns violent, Wuornes shoots the man in self-defence but this becomes just the first in a tragic string of killings.
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Charlize Theron took home the Best Actress Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards for her performance as Aileen Wuornes in 'Monster'. This was given to her on what would have been, Wuornos 48th birthday (29 February 2004).
After receiving her Oscar, the talented actress returned home to her native South Africa where she was greeted with a 'heroes welcome' by the government of South Africa and she even met with former South African President Nelson Mandella who praised her for her work to put South Africa on the map.
Born 7th August 1975, Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a town outside
of Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Her father was French and her mother was German.
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Aged 15, her father attacked her mother and her mother shot him dead in self defense.
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Theron became a model in 1991, travelling through Europe and New York. She
quit to take up ballet, however a knee injury prematurely ended her career. Soon
after, her mother sent her to Hollywood to become an actress.
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English is Theron's second language, her first language is Afrikaans.
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Theron gained 30 pounds to play Aileen Wuornes in 'Monster'.
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