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Halle Maria Berry
(born August 14, 1966) is an award-winning American
actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe
awards, and was awarded the Academy Award 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.
Early life and career: 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
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 seven years before
her.
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
or newspaper. 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.
Hollywood career: In the late 1980s, she went to
Chicago to pursue a modeling career as well as acting.
One of her first acting projects was a television series
for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called
Chicago Force. In 1992, Berry was cast as the love
interest in the video for R. Kelly's seminal hit,
"Honey Love". Berry auditioned for a role in
an updated Charlie's Angels television series by
producer Aaron Spelling. She impressed Spelling and he
encouraged her to continue acting.
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 in the live
action Flintstones movie as "Sharon Stone".
As 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 Bullworth, 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 portrayed the mutant Storm in the movie adaptation
of the popular comic book series X-Men (2000) and its
successful sequels X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men:
The Last Stand (2006). In late 2001, Berry appeared as
Leticia Musgrove, the wife of an executed murderer, in
the film Monster's Ball. Her performance was awarded the
National Board of Review and the Screen Actors Guild
prizes. The role earned her an Academy Award for Best
Actress: she made history by becoming the first African
American woman to earn a Best Actress Academy Award.
As Bond Girl Jinx in the (2002) blockbuster Die Another
Day she famously re-created the scene from Dr. No,
bursting from the surf to be greeted by James Bond, as
Ursula Andress had 40 years earlier. In late 2003, Berry
starred in the psychological thriller Gothika opposite
Robert Downey Jr. Her next lead role was in the film
Catwoman, for which she was awarded a "worst
actress" Razzie award in 2005, which she accepted
in person with a sense of humor and recognition that
"to be at the top, you must experience the rock
bottom".
Berry next appeared in the Oprah Winfrey-produced ABC
telepic Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), an
adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's novel, in which Berry
portrayed Janie Crawford, an iconoclastic, free-spirited
woman whose unconventional mores regarding relationships
upset her 1920s contemporaries in her small community.
Meanwhile, she voiced the character of Cappy, one of the
many mechanical beings in the animated feature, Robots
(2005). She has filmed the thriller Perfect Stranger
with Bruce Willis and wrapped shooting Things We Lost in
the Fire with Benicio Del Toro. She is set to star in
Class Act, based on the real life story of a teacher
whose students helped her run for political office and
"Tulia", which will reunite her with Monster's
Ball costar Billy Bob Thornton.
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.
Berry is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood,
commanding $14 million each for Gothika and Catwoman.
Personal life: Berry has been married twice. Her
first marriage in 1992 to pro baseball player David
Justice ended in divorce in 1996. David played with the
Atlanta Braves and had experienced a measure of fame as
the team rose to national attention in the early 1990s.
They found it difficult to maintain their relationship
when he was playing baseball and she was filming
elsewhere. She has made public that she was so
despondent after her breakup with Justice that she
considered taking her own life.
Her second marriage in 2001 to musician Eric Benét
resulted in a 2004 separation and 2005 divorce. In 2004,
after their separation, Berry stated "I want love,
and I will find it, hopefully". She adopted Eric's
daughter India and Halle and India are still in contact
after the separation.
As of 2006, she was dating French-Canadian supermodel
Gabriel Aubry, who is nine years her junior. The couple
met at a Versace photoshoot. After six months with
Aubry, she stated in an interview "I'm really happy
in my personal life, which is a novelty to me. You know
I'm not the girl that has the best relationships".
Berry recently revealed to 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". It has since been speculated that
Aubry, who lived in five foster families between the
ages of 3 and 18, possibly inspired Berry's interest in
adoption. 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".
Racial self-identification: Berry has stated that
the manner in which people have reacted to her is often
the result of ignorance. Her own self-identification has
been influenced by her mother. She has said:
"I was raised by my white mother and every day of
my life I have always been aware of the fact that I am
bi-racial. However, growing up I was aware that even
though my mother was white, I did not look or 'feel'
very white myself...Many times my classmates did not
believe me when I said my mother was white. I soon grew
tired of trying to prove that I was half-black and
half-white and learned not to concern myself with what
others thought. I began to relate to the other 'all
black kids' at my school more because quite simply...I
looked more like them...After having many talks with my
mother about the issue, she reinforced what she had
always taught me. She said that even though you are half
black and half white, you will be discriminated against
in this country as a black person...why should it matter
what color anyone is or what heritage they identify
with? If people would just learn to look at everyone
equally and stop trying to label one another the issue
of what we are all made of would be null and void...We
are all members of the same race, the human race!"
Controversy: In February 2000, Berry was involved
in a car accident in which she struck a vehicle after
running a red light, and left the scene before the
police arrived. Berry, who had sustained a head injury,
stated she had no recollection of the accident and
pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. She paid a
fine, made restitution to the other driver, performed
community service, and was placed on three years’
probation.
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