Hot Vote: Wednesday Supermodel: Charlize Theron

Charlize, was born and raised on a farm in Benoni, South Africa. She trained as a ballet dancer since the age of six and began a modeling career at age 16. Charlize was in her teens when she was soon sent to Milan Italy for photo shoots. Then at the age of 18 Charlize moved to New York on her own.

She continued her modeling career working modeling jobs when she could land them and taking bread from restaurants when work was thin. She was accustomed to the South African climate so to get over her woes of the cold and wet New York winters, She would attend New York's Joffrey Ballet school. The love for dance was Charlize childhood passion. However, a knee injury ended her chances at becoming a dancer and that was when Charlize decided to head to Hollywood.

Charlize first movie was "Two Days in The Valley." However, it was the movie "The Devils Avocate" with Keanu Reeves when people really started to take notice of Charlize. Since then she has appeared in many other hit movies such as Sweet November, The Cider House Rules, Reindeer Games, and The Legend of Bagger Vance just to name a few. Her newest film The Italian Job is destine to be a summer hit in which she co-stars with Mark Wahlberg.