FrameThrower · Actors · Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
12 films · 883 frames · top-billed in 12 · 2000–2019
Born 7 August 1975 · Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards.
Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 883 frames · top-billed in 12 · 2000–2019
- Academy Award for Best Actress2004
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Great Immigrants Award2009
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year2008
- GLAAD Vanguard Award2006
- Jupiter Awards
- Saturn Award for Best Actress
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 883 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charlize takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Charlize takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Long Shot
2019 · Charlotte Field
Atomic Blonde
2017 · Lorraine Broughton
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 · Imperator Furiosa
Prometheus
2012 · Meredith Vickers
Snow White and The Huntsman
2012 · Queen Ravenna
The Road
2009 · Mother
Hancock
2008 · Mary
The Burning Plain
2008 · Sylvia / Mariana
Aeon Flux
2005 · Æon Flux
The Yards
2000 · Erica Soltz
Kubo and the Two Strings
· Monkey / Mother (voice)
The Cider House Rules
· Candy Kendall
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 883 frames from Charlize Theron's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.