Actress Charlize Theron has shot down suggestions that a movie is to be made about her life.

The South African-born actress experienced a traumatic childhood, watching her mother shoot dead her abusive father when she was just five-years-old. Theron moved to America as a teenager and was discovered by a movie talent scout at 18 after she threw a tantrum in a bank.

Fourteen years on, she has two Oscar nominations and one Best Actress win, and is one of the biggest earning stars in Hollywood. But the actress is determined her story will never make it to the big screen.

She says, "God, I hope not. I've been working harder than anything in my life to try and keep my life sacred. I really don't mind when I'm in front of a camera and playing a character I'm comfortable with... but I don't necessarily like the spotlight to be about me - not at all. The idea of sitting in Cannes and watching that... ugh. No."

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