Who is Alex Dmitrijevic? Charlize Theron's 'new flame' 8 years after her split from Sean Penn

Award-winning actress Charlize Theron recently stepped out with rumoured new beau Alex Dmitrijevicat. In pictures obtained by Mail Online the pair were seen holding hands on a lunch date in LA and sources claim they have been seeing each other for a ‘few months’.

An insider told US Weekly “Charlize and Alex have been dating for a few months now, still in the early stages”. They also added that they “really like each other.”

The Mad Max actress is currently in France for the film festival where she is on the jury panel alongside actress Brie Larson. The 76th Cannes film festival is from May 16 - 27.

Alex is a model based in LA and has worked for brands including Malbon Golf, AG Green Label, The Elder Statesman.

He is listed on the Next Models website as 6-foot-3 with green eyes. There is a link to his Instagram page which has 270 followers but the profile is private. 

It’s the first time the actress has publicly dated someone since her split from actor Sean Penn in 2015. The pair were first linked in 2013 and made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala in 2014. 

There were rumours the former couple were engaged but Charlize squashed those rumours when she appeared on the Howard Stern Show. She said “We dated. That was literally all we did. It was a relationship, for sure. We were definitely exclusive, but it was for barely a year. We never moved in. I was never going to marry him. It was nothing like that.”

The Monster actress's longest relationship was with fellow actor Stuart Townsend. The exes dated for nearly a decade after meeting on the set of the 2002 film ‘Trapped’. 

Charlize is a mother to her two adopted children Jackson and August.