Actor: Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron won Best Actress for Monster, playing Aileen Wuornos under prosthetic teeth and thirty added pounds, and Roger Ebert called it one of the greatest performances in film history.

Mad Max: Fury Road gives her Furiosa, who is the actual protagonist of a film named after someone else, and Atomic Blonde gave her a stairwell fight staged as a single take. She was born in South Africa and trained as a ballet dancer.