Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Paramount Pictures, Newmarket Films, Focus Features and Warner Bros. This article has been updated to reflect Charlize Theron’s most recent work.
Below is our ranking of every Theron performance. To be clear, we’re not ranking the movies but merely her role in them. We skipped voice performances — sorry, Kubo and the Two Strings — but we did include her one-scene parts when she was still an up-and-comer. There’s a lot of gold here — and even when the film she’s in lets her down, she’s always far more composed and commanding than when she bit that bank teller’s head off so long ago.
38. Trial & Error . Welcome to the brief moment of Michael Richards, leading man! This My Cousin Vinny knockoff — directed, like that film, by Jonathan Lynn — is a dull comedy that features Theron as a waitress who helps Jeff Daniels realize the woman he’s marrying isn’t good enough for him.
33. Men of Honor . You can probably tell from the title that we don’t get much Theron here, and this might be the most thankless of all her thankless wife roles as the wife of a Scuba chief commander who works with the first African-American Navy diver . The movie itself isn’t bad, but Theron might as well have a big sign around her neck that says “WIFE.” Theron was 24 when she made this movie; De Niro was 57.
29. Sleepwalking . Theron tried her hand at producing with this tiny indie about a girl overcoming her wayward mother and finding a home with her roguish uncle . Theron’s barely in this movie — she runs off with a trucker in the first 15 minutes — and the story is maybe a little too slight, and too small. It also features a very, very bad late-career performance from Dennis Hopper. Still, the movie is good-hearted enough.
24. Snow White and the Huntsman . After a few years working in indies, Theron did a double feature of studio blockbusters in June 2012 with Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus. The former was one of two Snow White projects that came out that year — remember Mirror Mirror? — and Huntsman was the far more serious, action-packed entry. She plays the evil queen who hangs out with her magic mirror and seeks to consume the heart of the fair Snow White .
You missed Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Charlize's true debut! Less than 10 seconds but every one of them is pure screen magnetism!
There are no bad Theron performances.
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