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| Birth Name(s) : Halle Maria Berry |
Date of Birth: August 14, 1966 |
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Married
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Partner:
Eric Benet |
| Profession:
Actor/Model |
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| Halle Berry was a cheerleader in high school and went on to Miss Teen All American (1985), Miss Ohio USA (1986) and was the first runner-up for Miss USA in 1986. Her beauty has carried her from modelling to the big screen and feature films include "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Bulworth" (1998) and "X-Men" (2000). |
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Halle Maria Berry (IPA: /ˈhælɪ ˈbɛrɪ/) (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball. She is the only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress.
Berry's parents selected her first name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Englishwoman Judith Ann (née Hawkins), a Liverpudlian, and Jerome Jesse Berry, who is African American. Berry's maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Earl Ellsworth Hawkins (an American), was born in Ohio. Berry's parents divorced when she was 4 years old and she was subsequently raised by her mother, a psychiatric nurse. Her father was an orderly in the same psychiatric ward where her mother worked and later worked as a bus driver. Berry has an older sister, Heidi, who was born two years before her, and an older half-sister, Renee (from a different mother).
Berry was a popular student at Bedford High School and was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president and prom queen. She worked in the children's department at Higbee's Department store. She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.
Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests, winning Miss Ohio USA and Miss Teen All-American. Other entries include Miss USA (first runner-up in 1986 to Christy Fichtner of Texas, the second of the Texas Aces), and sixth place in Miss World 1986 (the winner being Trinidad and Tobago's Giselle Laronde). In the Miss USA 1986 pageant interview competition, she said she hoped to become an entertainer or to have something to do with the media. Her interview was awarded the highest score by the judges.
In 1989, during the taping of the short-lived television series Living Dolls, Berry lapsed into a coma and was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1.
In 1989, Berry landed the role of Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls (a spin-off of Who's the Boss?). Her breakthrough feature film role was in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, in which she played a drug addict named Vivian. Her first co-starring role was in the 1991 film Strictly Business. In 1992, Berry portrayed a career woman who falls for Eddie Murphy in the romantic comedy Boomerang. That same year, she caught the public's attention as a headstrong biracial slave in the TV adaption of Queen: The Story of an American Family, based on the book by Alex Haley. Berry also played the sultry secretary who seduced Fred Flintstone in the live action Flintstones movie as "Sharon Stone".
Playing a former drug addict struggling to regain custody of her son in Losing Isaiah (1995), Berry showed she could tackle more serious roles, holding her own opposite co-star Jessica Lange. She portrayed Sandra Beecher in Race the Sun (1996), which was based on a true story, and co-starred along side Kurt Russell in Executive Decision. In Bulworth, Berry received praise for her role as an intelligent woman raised by activists who gives politician Warren Beatty a new lease on life, and as the singer Zola Taylor, one of the three wives of pop singer Frankie Lymon, in the biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love both in 1998.
In the 1999 film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Berry portrayed the first black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. In this HBO biopic, Berry's performance was recognized with several awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe. (She was also one of the producers of the project.)
Berry is making the transition to working on the production side of film and television. She is working with author Angela Nissel to executive-produce a comedy series based on Nissel's two memoirs, The Broke Diaries and Mixed: My Life in Black and White. Berry has served many years as the face of Revlon cosmetics and was recently named the face of Versace. She is featured in Maxim magazine's Girls of Maxim gallery.
Her second marriage, in 2001 to musician Eric Benét, resulted in a 2004 separation and 2005 divorce. In 2004 after the separation, Berry stated, "I want love, and I will find it, hopefully". While married to Benét, Berry made plans to adopt Eric's daughter, India. However, the process was never finalized.
Berry revealed on Extra that she plans to adopt children. "I will adopt if it doesn't happen for me naturally", she said. "I will definitely adopt. And I probably will adopt even if it does happen naturally". (Aubry, who lived in five foster families between the ages of 3 and 18, is presumably open to being an adoptive parent as well.) Later she stated, "I never want to be married again. I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife. I don't feel like I need to be validated by being in a marriage".
After initially denying rumors that she was pregnant, Berry confirmed in September 2007 that she was indeed three months pregnant with Aubry's child. She hired security guards after receiving racist threats to her unborn child.
on TV (miniseries) Halle Berry won the Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series |
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| There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it's those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous. |
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