Marriage not for Charlize Theron

LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Charlize Theron has played an astronaut's wife, a safecracker, serial killer and mine worker, but there is one off-camera role she never wants to give up -- that of a single woman.

In an interview airing on Tuesday for the syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood," the 30-year-old actress said matrimony is not for her.

"I'm happy for people who want to get married," the South African-born Theron said, but added, "It's not my thing."

The performer's comments came days after her mother, Gerda, got married again. Theron was 15 years old when her mother fatally shot her alcoholic father as he threatened the family in a drunken rage.

Although the actress sees no wedding bells in her own future, Theron said she remains committed to her boyfriend of four years, Irish actor Stuart Townsend, star of the new ABC television series "Night Stalker."

"I'm extremely happy in my relationship," she said. "I would love to have kids."

Theron, who won the Academy Award in 2004 as best actress for her role as a serial killer in "Monster," stars this month as a female miner who spearheaded one of the first major sexual harassment cases in the United States in "North Country."

Her films also include "The Astronaut's Wife," "The Cider House Rules" and "The Italian Job."

- REUTERS