Charlize Theron is one of those actresses that fits into the same mental category for me as Margot Robbie: Gorgeous, seemingly down-to-earth, and probably a total blast to hang out with. She’s also an incredible actress and has an impressive range of films under her belt, from romantic comedies, to action flicks, to psychological thrillers, and of course, historical flicks. So, let’s take a look at her historical films!
That Thing You Do (1996)
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Men of Honor (2000)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Are you a fan of Charlize Theron? Tell us in the comments!
You also get a few brief moments of Charlize in historical costumes in the film The Old Guard, because her character Andromache is an immortal warrior from what is implied to be ancient Greece. However while I love it as a film, they are more blink and you’ll miss it moments, two where she’s in vaguely Grecian armour and one where she’s in a sad linen shift (she’s supposed to have been locked up as a suspected witch at some point during the middle ages).
I was going to mention this one as well. If I remember correctly she’s meant to be Scythian (so roughly from what’s now Ukraine). Most of the film is set in the modern day so it isn’t really a period film, even less so than Highlander, another story about immortals born in historical periods set in the present day, but I enjoyed it.
(Of the other main immortal characters, one is from the present day and just discovered her immortality, one is from the early 19th century if I remember correctly, and two are lovers who met and fought each other during the Crusades.)
Thank you for the correction, I was thinking ‘vaguely ancient world’ so confused Scythian with Greek. But yes of the three other older ones, Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) was supposed to be a soldier in Napoleon’s army so early 1800s, while Nicolo (Luca Marinelli) is a Catholic soldier from Genoa, Italy during the Crusades and Yusuf/Joe (Marwan Kenzari) was an artist turned solder from Jerusalem, also during the Crusades.
I love her in Atomic Blonde! Alas, it takes place in 1989 so not a Frock Flick. :)
Undoubtedly my mental image of Cersei Lannister from A GAME OF THRONES (Although the idea of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN with la Belle Theron as a Bond girl strikes me as entertaining in it’s own right).
Love her and all her costumes in That Thing You Do. Definitely in my top ten movies.