20 Things You Didn't Know About Charlize Theron

11. U.N. Involvement

Charlize Theron
Paramount Pictures

Since Monster and the Mandela encounter, she's been more outspoken about her political and social activism. In 2008, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked her to be the U.N. Messenger of Peace.

It is admittedly a bit of a figurehead position, but she joined the likes of Michael Douglas, Jane Goodall, Malala Yousafzai, Edward Norton and Yo Yo Ma in promoting and focusing worldwide attention on the works of the U.N.

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