Halle Berry
Pageant established herself not only as a beauty queen and fashion model, also as
a multi-talented actress who is capable of turning in award-worthy performances.
The several awards winner was born on 14th August, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio to
U.S. She was the youngest daughter of Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant
and Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. She grew with her older sister named
Heidi Berry.
She completed her schooling from Bedford High School and graduation from
Cuyahoga Community College in broadcast journalism. From her early age she
was subjected to discrimination that influenced her desire too much that the
determined teen participated throughout high school several extracurricular
activities by holding positions of newspaper editor, class president, and head
cheerleader.
• Her performance:-
The beauty queen came into limelight at seventeen years when she won
Miss Teen All-American in 1985, first runner-up in the 1985 Miss U.S.A.
competition and Miss Ohio USA in 1986 and the success led to her first weekly TV
series "Living Dolls" in 1989, followed by CBS prime-time drama Knot's Landing, in
1991.
The eventual turning point came into her life with her first big-screen break as
Samuel L. Jackson's drug-addicted girlfriend in Spike Lee's critically acclaimed film,
Jungle Fever in 1991.
Beautiful reviews were showered upon her by her stunning performance in the
action-thriller The Last Boy Scout in 1991, and as the woman who finally wins
Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang in 1992, for her youthful performance
as sexy secretary "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones in 1994, in the adoption
drama Losing Isaiah in 1995, two 1996 crime thrillers: The Rich Man's Wife, and
Executive Decision, as a street smart young woman who takes up with a struggling
politician in Warren Beatty's Bulworth in 1998, in the biographical drama Why Do
Fools Fall in Love?
She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series for her role
as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
in 1999.
In 2000 she gave box-office hit in X-Men of the long-running Marvel Comic in
which she played "Storm", a mutant who has the ability to control the weather.
In 2001 her performance starring with John Travolta in the action movie
Swordfish did not respond positively to the film, and publicity for the movie
centered mostly around Berry's topless scene, for which the actress was allegedly
paid a $500,000 bonus. But in the next year her performance in the dark drama
Monster's Ball garnered her most positive critical notice of her film career and
earned Berry a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama and the
Academy Award for Leading Actress.
Her win at the Academy Awards led to two famous "Oscar moments." In
accepting her award, she gave an acceptance speech honoring previous black
actresses who had never had the opportunity. She said, "This moment is so much
bigger than me. This is for every nameless, faceless woman of colour who now
has a chance tonight because this door has been opened."
Her other credits were - in the 2002 blockbuster Die Another Day, in the
psychological thriller Gothika opposite Robert Downey Jr, in the Oprah Winfrey-
produced ABC TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God in 2005.
She voiced the character of in the animated feature Robots in 2005.
She both produced and starred in the thriller Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis
and in Things We Lost in the Fire with Benicio del Toro.
• Other Interests
In 2007, she topped In Touch magazine's list of the world's most fabulous 40-
something celebrities. She associated with Revlon cosmetics, Versace becoming
face of their ad campaign. In 2008 she signed the Coty Inc. fragrance company to
market her debut fragrance which she had created at home by mixing scents.
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