South African-born beauty Theron had never been considered a Hollywood A-List star … until she made this harrowing but truly memorable drama.

THE Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars yesterday with an epic 11 awards out of 11.

SOUTH AFRICAN-BORN Charlize Theron won the Oscar for best actress for the drama Monster, in which she masked her beauty to play real-life female serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars today with an epic 11 awards out of 11.

Sobbing that ‘‘there’s no sense in keeping me alive’’, one of the first known female serial killers in the United States won a court victory in Florida in her bid to sack her lawyers and hasten her execution.