Halle Berry was born in the year 1966 and she is American actress. She won the academy award in the year 2002 for being Best Actress for the performance she had in the romantic Monster’s Ball of 2001. She is known as the only black woman who won the Academy Award for the Best Actress.
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Berry was among highest paid actress for the Hollywood during the year 2000s. She has been involved in the products of many films and she was the spokesman for Revlon. After becoming the actress, she started to model and she entered in the beauty contest where she finished in the position of the 1st runner up for the Miss USA Pageant. She was the 6th in Miss World Pageant of 1986.
She had a breakthrough film role for the romantic comedy called Boomerang, together with Eddie Murphy. This led to other roles like in the comedy of Flintstones. She was in the political comedy drama called Bultworth and in the television film called Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. For this role, she won the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Actress for the Miniseries of the movie and this was among other different awards.
As reported in her biography, Halle Berry is awards winner actress and she garnered high profile roles in the year 2000 when she played in X-Men and Storm film series, an action crime thriller called Swordish and the Spy film Die another Day. She was played as Bon Girl Jinx. She was in the sequel of the X-men X2 and in the X-Men: The Last Stand.
Halle Berry was born as Maria Halle Berry and she changed her name to Halle Maria in her early life, when she was five years old. Halle parents are Judith who was a psychiatric nurse and was of English and of German ancestry. The father is Jerome Berry of African-American nationality. He was a hospital attendant in the psychiatric ward. Her parents got a divorce when she was four years and then together with her big sister Heidi Berry Henderson, they were raised by the mother. While at Bedford High School, she was the cheerleader, editor for the school newspaper and the prom queen.
When it comes to her personal life, Halle Berry dated a Chicago Dentist named John Ronan since 1989 up to 1991. She says that she had a boyfriend who beat her and led to the loss of the eight percent of hearing in the left ear. She got married to David Justice but they divorced. After the divorce from her husband, Halle Berry said that she was depressed and wanted to kill herself. She married Eric Benet, Gabriel Aubry and Olivier Martinez and all marriages ended in divorces. She has two children, a daughter from Aubrey marriage and a son from Martinez marriage. Her net worth is 70 million dollars. Halle Berry is available on different social media.
Last Modified: Mar 8, 2020
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