Charlize Theron has heaped praise on her "incredible" boyfriend Stuart Townsend after watching him toil over his first movie script.

The Oscar-winning actress reveals Townsend wrote the screenplay for Battle in Seattle at the home the couple shares in Los Angeles - and suffered the rejections and nerves as her partner attempted to shop his script around Hollywood.

She says, "The amount of passion, of time and effort that he committed to writing that script really blew me away. When you love somebody and you're that close somebody, we always expect the worst because he had never ...

Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have declared themselves "married," despite never making the union official in a ceremony.

The couple showed off their 'wedding' rings at the premiere of Townsend's directorial debut, "Battle in Seattle," which stars Theron, at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday.

Townsend revealed, "I didn't do a church wedding or anything, but we're married. We're husband and wife. We love each other and we want to spend our lives together. We didn't have a ceremony, I don't need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there's n...