Charlize Theron
Raised on a farm in South Africa, Charlize Theron was just 15 years old when her mother killed her alcoholic father in the name of self-defense after he threatened to kill both mother and daughter. She originally went to New York for a three-day modeling stint and stayed to train as a ballet dancer until an injury forced her to quit. She soon caught the eye of talent-agents and started with some small acting roles, and was soon being offered lots of “hot-chick” parts but turned them down. Even though a lot of people advised her to take the gigs so as ‘to hit while the irons hot’, she was thinking of the long-term. In an interview, she said that “playing the same part over and over doesn’t leave you with any longevity. And I knew it was going to be harder for me, because of what I look like, to branch out to different kinds of roles.”
Charlize Theron
Rita Hayworth
Rita Heyworth is one of those stars who has been in the entertainment industry for practically her entire life. Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, she was dancing until she was 10, when her family relocated to California where she went on to appear in many dancing films during the 1930s until she branched out into more serious roles during the 1940s, eventually coined “The Love Goddess” and is described as the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. Over the next decade, she had many personal issues, wrestling with a number of mentally abusive marriages, spiraling into alcoholism and financial difficulties. She suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for a long time which contributed to her death in 1987.
Rita Hayworth
