Theron got a role in 1995 B-movie Children Of The Corn III, but this was a non-speaking part with three seconds of screen-time.
Meanwhile, after her agent kept sending her scripts like Showgirls and Species -- which Theron believed she was only being offered because of the way she looked -- she fired him as her manager.
The 1996 film 2 Days In The Valley led to her favourite actor spotting her. Tom Hanks was then directing That Thing You Do!, where he immediately cast Charlize as Tina. Prominence ensued in 1997 with The Devil's Advocate, opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves.
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