This South-African born actress played a real-life person who was executed in 2002 for crimes committed in what movie?
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Charlize Theron filmography Charlize Theron is a South African-born American actress who made her film debut in an uncredited role as a follower of a cult in the 1995 horror film "". Theron followed this with appearances as a hitwoman in "2 Days in the Valley", a waitress in the romantic comedy "Trial and Error" (1997), and a woman suffering with schizophrenia in the mystery thriller "The Devil's Advocate" (1997) with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. She appeared in the science fiction thriller "The Astronaut's Wife" with Johnny Depp, and Lasse Hallström's "The Cider House Rules" (both in 1999). For her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the crime drama "Monster" (2003), Theron received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The following year, she played Swedish entertainer Britt Ekland in the biographical film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers".
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Monster (2003 film) Monster is a 2003 biographical crime drama film written and directed by Patty Jenkins. The film is about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wuornos was played by Charlize Theron, and her semi-fictionalized lover, Selby Wall (based on Wuornos's real-life girlfriend Tyria Moore), was played by Christina Ricci.
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Hermien Dommisse Hermien Dommisse (27 October 1915 – 24 March 2010) was a South African actress.
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Daisy de Melker Daisy Louisa C. De Melker (née Hancorn-Smith; 1 June 1886 – 30 December 1932) simply known as Daisy de Melker, was a trained nurse who poisoned two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance while living in Germiston in the central Transvaal (now Gauteng), and then poisoned her only son with arsenic for reasons which are still unclear. She is the second woman to have been hanged in South Africa.
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Antoinette Frank Antoinette Renee Frank (born April 30, 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer, convicted of the murder of three people.
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Viva Riva! Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written and directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra. The film received 12 nominations and won 6 awards at the 7th Africa Movie Academy Awards, including the awards for "Best Picture", "Best Director", "Best Cinematography" & "Best Production Design", a feat that made it the highest winning film in the history of the AMAA's till date. "Viva Riva!" also won at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards for Best African Movie.
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Honour killing of Sadia Sheikh The honour killing of Sadia Sheikh occurred on October 22, 2007, when a 20-year-old Belgian woman of Pakistani heritage was fatally shot by her brother. Sheikh had left her family home after her parents pressured her to marry a cousin she had never met, later moving in with a Belgian man, but had visited to try to make peace. Her brother confessed to the murder in a 2011 trial, claiming he had acted alone, but a jury pronounced all four members of the family guilty of the murder and sentenced each to prison. The case has been called Belgium's first honour killing trial.
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Pleuni Touw Pleuni Touw (born 8 November 1938) is a Dutch film, television and theatre actress best known for her role in the 1974 miniseries "De Stille Kracht", which featured the first televised nude scene in Dutch history.
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Manjupoloru Penkutti Manjupoloru Penkutti is a 2004 Malayalam film about a teenager girl who is abused by her stepfather. The film was directed by Kamal. This movie is a remake of the 2000 movie "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia". This film shot in Kochi and Paris.
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Devika Devika or Prameela Devi (25th April 1942 – 1st May 2002) was a Tamil and Telugu actress.
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Betsie Verwoerd Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd, (née Schoombie; 17 May 1901 - 29 February 2000) was the spouse of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 2 September 1958 until the assassination of her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966.
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High Crimes High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, reunited from the 1997 film "Kiss the Girls". The screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley is based on Joseph Finder's 1998 novel of the same name.
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Michael Kanaan Michael Kanaan (born 23 May 1975) is a Lebanese Australian triple murderer from Sydney, New South Wales, currently serving three sentences of life imprisonment plus 50 years and 4 months without the possibility of parole, for the murder of three people and other offences, all committed in Sydney between 17 July 1998 and 22 December 1998. In the drama series he was portrayed by actor Ryan Corr.
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Andries Jan Pieters Andries Jan Pieters (1916 – 21 March 1952) was a Dutch war criminal and, together with Artur Albrecht, was one of the last two people to be executed in the Netherlands. Pieters served as a volunteer for Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. When he was wounded he returned to the Netherlands and in the final months of World War II he had led a SS commando in the Netherlands, which tortured and executed resistance members and others.
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Mallika Sherawat Mallika Sherawat (born Reema Lamba on October 24, 1976) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi, English and Chinese language films. Known for her bold onscreen attitude in films like "Khwahish" (2003) and "Murder" (2004), Sherawat has established herself as a sex symbol and as one of the most popular celebrities in Bollywood. She then appeared in successful romantic comedy "Pyaar Ke Side Effects" (2006) which won her much critical acclaim.
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Pearl Thusi Pearl Thusi (born 13 May 1988) is a South African actress, model, radio, and television personality. Currently, she is the host of Lip Sync Battle Africa MTV Africa and E.tv (for the South African analogue tv audience) as well as Moments South Africa, broadcast on EbonyLife TV. She has starred on the SABC 3 popular soap opera, "Isidingo", as Palesa Motaung, co-hosted "Live AMP" with DJ Warras and "Luthando Shosha", the SABC 1 celebrity gossip magazine show, "The Real Goboza'
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Colin Bouwer Colin Bouwer is a South African-born doctor, who rose to become Head of Psychiatry at the University of Otago. He spent 16 years in prison for the murder of his third wife Annette. His crime was dramatized in the TV movie "Bloodlines", with Bouwer being portrayed by Mark Mitchinson. His son via a previous marriage, was also convicted of murder in 2003. His first wife was also convicted of helping their son cover up his crime.
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Sante Kimes Sante Kimes (born Sandra Louise Singhrs; July 24, 1934 – May 19, 2014) was an American criminal who was convicted of two murders, as well as robbery, violation of anti-slavery laws, forgery and numerous other crimes. Many of these crimes were committed with the assistance of her son, Kenneth Kimes Jr. They were tried and convicted together for the murder of Irene Silverman, along with 117 other charges. The pair were also suspected but never charged in a third murder in the Bahamas, to which Kenneth has confessed.
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Harriet Manamela Harriet Manamela is a South African actress most famous for acting as Meikie Maputla the wife of John Maputla (Africa Tsoai and the mother of Leeto Maputla (Eric Macheru) and Thabo Maputla (Thabo Mamabolo) in the soap "Skeem Saam.
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Murder of Masego Kgomo Masego Kgomo (c. 1999 – 31 December 2009) was a South African girl murdered in order to provide body parts for rituals performed by a sangoma. Her murder sparked calls for sangomas to stop using human remains.
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Anibal dos Santos Aníbal António "Anibalzinho" dos Santos Júnior (Aníbal dos Santos, born 1971 or 1972) is a Portuguese criminal convicted of masterminding the November 22, 2000, murder of Carlos Cardoso, a journalist investigating bank fraud in Mozambique's Central Bank (BCM). After a first trial "in absentia" in 2003, one failed and two successful escapes and two extraditions (from South Africa and Canada), dos Santos was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in January 2006. Dos Santos maintained his innocence throughout the trial. As of April, 2008, dos Santos remained in Mozambican custody and was investigated in another murder case, that of BCM lawyer Albano Silva.
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Bram Fischer Abram Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, (23 April 1908 Bloemfontein – 8 May 1975 Bloemfontein) was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial. Following the trial he was himself put on trial accused of furthering communism. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The South African Prisons Act was extended to include his brother's house in Bloemfontein where he died two months later.