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“Today was a bright place,” Charlize Theron wrote
Happy Birthday, Charlize Theron!
The actress turned Friday 45 on Friday and marked the occasion in true quarantine fashion: with a Zoom birthday party. “My first virtual birthday party … I think my mom fell asleep for 5 minutes,” Theron joked on Instagram next to a photo of the virtual celebration.
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“Thank you everyone for the wishes of the day!” de Mad Max: Fury Road star remained in the title. “2020 has been rough, but today was for sure a bright spot.”
Theron’s fellow actors wish her a happy birthday in the comments section of the post, with Reese Witherspoon writing, “happy birthday to the farthest queen of them all! ✨👑 ❤️”.
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“Happy Birthday love !!,” Jones commented, while Jessica Chastain added, “Happy Birthday !!!! 😘❤”
The photo from Theron’s party shows the star in the bottom right laughing with her two daughters – Aug. 5, and Jackson, 8.
The mother of two recently opened up to PEOPLE about how she encourages her daughters, who are black, to feel empowered amid the ongoing protests over police brutality and race money.
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The Old Guard actress and producer said in July that despite the fact that they “had to have really tough conversations” with August and Jackson “in the last few months,” almost about some of the ugly things happening in our world, ” really stepped up and took the initiative.
“They wanted to be so proactive in, ‘Mom, what are we doing? How do we change this?’ said Theron. “And just their willingness to make signs and want to protest, and they still have their signs in the car.”
“And when they see Protestants on the side of the road, they’ll say, ‘Mom, base. Base, mother, base,'” she added. “There’s a real sense of pride.”
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