Charlize Theron | Jackson & August

Charlize Theron, a South African-American actress and producer, is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world as well as the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was catapulted to international fame in the 1990s after she landed lead roles in the Hollywood blockbusters The Devil’s Advocate and The Cider House Rules.

Since then, Theron has featured in a number of financially successful action movies, racking up credits in films such as The Italian Job, Prometheus, and most notably, Atomic Blonde, in which she starred as the titular character. Come 2012, the actress would adopt daughter Jackson, and in 2015, her second daughter August. The actress later stated that since childhood, she has been interested in adoption, mainly due to the overflowing numbers of orphans with which the orphanages have trouble keeping up.