Here are your Get-A-Clue clues for today. She is a South African and American actress and fashion model born 7 August 1975. Her ancestry includes French, German, and Dutch; her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. She grew up on her parents farm near Johannesburg. Although she is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans. Although seeing herself as a dancer, at 16, she won a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in Salerno and with her mother moved to Milan, Italy. She spent a year modeling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to New York City and Miami, Florida. In New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following roles in the several major films. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a serial killer in 2003, for which she won the Silver Bear, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award for Best Actress among several other accolades, becoming the first South African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category. In recent years, she has moved into the field of producing, both in television and film.
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