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Charlize Theron is unquestionably a badass.

The South African-born model and actress, whose life story features some astounding highs and lows—she won the Oscar for Monster, but her father, himself a monster, was shot to death by her mother when Charlize was 15—is a true headstrong beauty in the old-Hollywood style. She's also a formidable actress. And as it turns out, she's one of the few women who can take a fashion or fragrance commercial—that notorious vehicle of anti-narrative and empty style—and actually make it interesting.

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