The 1997 movie that became the "greatest gift" of Charlize Theron's career

The 1997 movie that became the "greatest gift" of Charlize Theron's career

Few Hollywood stars have a story quite like Charlize Theron. At the age of 15, her mother shot and killed her alcoholic father after he attacked her in a drunken rage. This would have been enough to derail anyone’s life, but Theron was determined to make something better for herself.  After dabbling in ballet and modelling as a teenager, she moved to Europe from her native South Africa to pursue an acting career and received her big break in ver…