- Good friends with Director Neill Blomkamp. They attended the same high school.
- Didn't start acting until he was thirty-five.
- He was a huge fan of The A-Team (1983) growing up and got to play one of them in the 2010 adaptation.
- Has a daughter, Sielle Phoenix-Copley (b. January 1, 2017), with his wife Tanit Phoenix.
- He is in a relationship with South African supermodel and actress Tanit Phoenix beginning of January 2012 and have bought a house together in Los Angeles. Sharlto proposed to Tanit on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, on the 28 March 2015. They got married on 15 February 2016, in Cape Town, South Africa.
- He believes he was named after Thaddeus Sholto, a character featured in a radio production of "The Sign of the Four" - a Sherlock Holmes story.
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