In the Valley of Elah

…an Iraq War veteran, in In the Valley of Elah (2007).

…sentiments to the screen with In the Valley of Elah (2007), in which she portrayed the distraught mother of a soldier who disappears after returning home from a tour of duty in the Iraq War. Her subsequent film roles included an evil queen in Enchanted (2007) as well as maternal…

…subsequently appeared in the drama In the Valley of Elah (2007), the superhero movie Hancock (2008), and The Road (2009), an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel of the same name. In the dramedy Young Adult (2011), Theron starred as a willfully immature woman who returns to her hometown in…