Currently Theron is single. She dated Stuart Townsend and Craig Bierko.

One of the first movies she ever went to see at the theater was _Splash (1984). She admits her crush on Tom Hanks. she felt jealous of Daryl Hannah while watching the movie. She wished she could play this role.
Theron was born to a business family in Benoni, South Africa which had a road construction company and a farm. She grew up in the rural environment and began studying ballet at the age of six. She was passionate about American movies in her adolescence.