Charlize Theron
Is Charlize Theron gay? Learn all there is to know about the actress’ family, partner and more.
Charlize Theron is a South African and naturalised American actress and producer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005).
Her career in Hollywood has earned her a loyal fanbase who often ask about the actress’ sexuality – whether she is gay or bisexual or straight.
Charlize Theron has been an ally for the LGBTQ+ community since the early days of her career, and in an interview with Pride Source, the Bombshell star explained that despite experimenting when she was young, she remains unfortunately heterosexual. “I experimented and I did what I think every young person should do: feel brave enough and free enough in order to figure it out,” the actress confessed.
“It’s not like the stuff is laid out on a piece of paper for us; we have to kind of go through a life, and until you have certain experiences you don’t really know who you are.” Theron said she was lucky enough to have a mother who allowed her to “’figure out what it is for you.’ And I think it was because of that I got to share those things with her; when I did go on those explorations I had this person that I could share it with, that I felt safe with, who wasn’t going to judge me orme.” But despite having the freedom to explore her sexuality free from judgement, the results were disappointing. “But it turns out – ahh! – that I am straight. It’s a little bit of a bummer,” she said.
Theron’s heterosexuality hasn’t stopped her from pushing the queer agenda in her films. While she isn’t responsible for Bombshell’s queer subplot (involving Margot Robbie and Kate McKinnon’s characters), she was behind her Atomic Blonde character’s bisexuality, saying she “fought for” the scenes in which her spy character romances and sleeps with another woman. “I mean, she was never kind of bisexual or anything like that and that to me was just like, why not? I mean, come on,” Theron said. The actress even insisted that the sex scene be represented as candidly as a straight sex scene would.
“I feel like I just personally don’t struggle with that: handling or treating it any different. For me, the bottom line is, you’re playing real people and real human dynamics and that’s where these things have to live and breathe, and when you start kind of thinking that one is different than the other, I don’t really know what the point is, then…If you’re not willing to be as accurate and authentic as you possibly can, then just don’t bother. It does a disservice, I think.”
Theron also spoke about her daughter Jackson, whose gender identity and pronouns she shared with the world in April. While she wants Jackson to be able to tell her own story one day if she wants to, the actress felt “it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.”
Earlier this year, the Oscar winner appeared virtually among a group of friends for the Drag Isn’t Dangerous telethon to voice her support for the drag community.
“We love you queens. We’re in your corner and we’ve got you, and I will f— anybody up who’s trying to f— with anything with you guys,” said Theron, 47, as seen in a video tweeted by fan account Charlize Theron Daily. “There are so many things that are hurting and, really, killing our kids, and we all know what I’m talking about right now and it ain’t no drag queen — because if you’ve ever seen a drag queen lip-sync for her life, it only makes you happier, it only make you love more, it makes you a better person,” Theron said.
Theron went on to ask viewers to “please support all the great organizations that are out there helping all of this nonsense go away like it should. All of these incredibly stupid policies. Bye! No more room for hate, only love, and love equals drag queens!”
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