Editing Charlize Theron (section)

==Early life==
Theron was born in [[Benoni, Gauteng|Benoni]], in [[Transvaal Province]] ([[Gauteng Province]] since 1994) of South Africa on 7 August 1975.<ref>{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=9 August 2013|issue=1271|page=22}}</ref> She is the only child of [[road construction]]ists<ref name="SAGinterview"/> Gerda ([[née]] Maritz){{r|bookrefp18|p=16-18}} and Charles Theron (27 November 1947 – 21 June 1991).{{r|bookrefp18|p=16-18, 34}} The [[Second Boer War]] military leader [[Daniel Theron|Danie Theron]] was her great-granduncle.{{r|bookrefp18|p=14}} She is from an [[Afrikaner]] family, and her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German. Her French forebears were early [[Huguenots in South Africa]].{{r|bookrefp18|p=14}} Although Theron is fluent in English, her [[first language]] is [[Afrikaans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/charlize-theron |title=Charlize Theron |publisher=[[Access Hollywood]] |access-date=4 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725041723/http://www.accesshollywood.com/charlize-theron |archive-date=25 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charlize Theron |url=http://www.people.com/people/charlize_theron |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601182244/http://www.people.com/people/charlize_theron |archive-date=1 June 2009 |access-date=24 October 2009 |work=[[People (American magazine)|People]]}}</ref>

She grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near [[Johannesburg]].{{r|tca|WIRED}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlize Theron Biography|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/charlize-theron/|work=Hello Magazine|date=8 October 2009 |access-date=9 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625182714/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/charlize-theron/|archive-date=25 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Benoni, East Rand|url=http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsga/benoni.php|work=sa-venues.com|access-date=9 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617233213/http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsga/benoni.php|archive-date=17 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> On 21 June 1991, Theron's father, an [[Alcoholism|alcoholic]],<ref name=tca /> threatened both Charlize and her mother while drunk, physically attacking her mother and firing a gun at both of them.<ref name=oxygen>{{cite web |title=Charlize Theron Opens Up About Witnessing Mom Shoot And Kill Her Dad |url=https://www.oxygen.com/blogs/charlize-theron-opens-up-about-witnessing-mom-shoot-and-kill-her-dad-when-she-was-15 |first=Gina |last=Tron |publisher=Oxygen |date=26 July 2017 |access-date=20 April 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420185935/https://www.oxygen.com/blogs/charlize-theron-opens-up-about-witnessing-mom-shoot-and-kill-her-dad-when-she-was-15 |url-status=live }}</ref> Theron's mother retrieved her own handgun, shot back and killed him.<ref name=oxygen /> The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense, and her mother faced no charges.<ref name=biochannel>{{cite web |title=Charlize Theron |url=http://94.236.123.156:8082/biographies/charlize-theron.html |publisher=[[Biography Channel|BiographyChannel.co.uk]] |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208190212/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/charlize-theron.html |archive-date=8 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132413 |title=Charlize Theron's Family Tragedy - ABC News |publisher=Abcnews.go.com |date=6 January 2006 |access-date=1 August 2015 |archive-date=16 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150816114658/http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132413 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Theron attended Putfontein Primary School (Laerskool Putfontein),<ref name="WIRED">{{cite AV media |date=2018 |title=Charlize Theron & David Oyelowo Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions {{!}} WIRED |medium=Interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoL7m4nVajg |format=YouTube video |via=[[YouTube]] |publisher=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |access-date=9 May 2020 |archive-date=16 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116104319/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoL7m4nVajg&feature=youtu.be |url-status=live }}</ref> a period during which she has said she was not "fitting in".<ref name=peoplemag1127>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/charlize-theron-remembers-high-school-teasing/ |title=Charlize Theron: I Was Teased By Mean Girls in High School |first=Paul |last=Chi |date=27 November 2011 |work=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129183129/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20547579,00.html |archive-date=29 November 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was frequently unwell with [[jaundice]] throughout childhood and the [[antibiotics]] she was administered made her upper [[incisor]] [[milk teeth]] rot; they had to be surgically removed. Theron's permanent teeth did not grow until she was roughly ten years old.<ref name="teeth">{{cite AV media |date=19 June 2013 |title=Charlize Theron on Missing Her Front Teeth and Wearing Cutlets {{!}} Screen Tests {{!}} W Magazine |medium=Interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5rFUDH8LB0 |format=YouTube video |via=[[YouTube]] |publisher=[[W magazine]] |access-date=9 May 2020 |archive-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229061501/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5rFUDH8LB0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=7 June 2012 |title=CHARLIZE THERON & JON HAMM: My Secret Ugly Childhood (The Graham Norton Show) |medium=Television production |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i9kdN6DYZA | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211123/3i9kdN6DYZA| archive-date=2021-11-23 | url-status=live|format=YouTube video |time=0:35–1:33 |location=BBC Studios, London |publisher=[[The Graham Norton Show]] |via=[[BBC America]]'s [[YouTube]] channel |access-date=9 May 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg.{{r|tca|teeth}} About her early life in her home country, Theron has said: “I grew up as an only child in South Africa, and there was turmoil in my family, but the surroundings were so great. I was usually barefoot in the dirt: no [[Game Boy]]s, no computers, and we had sanctions, so there were no concerts. This meant you had to entertain yourself.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hirschberg |first=Lynn |date=2008-02-24 |title=Charlize Angel |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/style/tmagazine/24coverlynn.html |access-date=2022-12-01 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=25 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225162841/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/style/tmagazine/24coverlynn.html |url-status=live }}</ref>