Halle Berry is a beautiful and talented actress, producer and former beauty queen. In addition to being one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, Berry also became the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her outstanding role in the romantic film Monsters Ball in 2002.
biography, age
Halle Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio. Berry first attended Heskett Middle School in Bedford, Ohio before enrolling at Bedford High School, an almost all-white public school where she faced discrimination and racism. She later majored in broadcast journalism at Cuyahoga Community College.
career
Halle’s modeling career began in her teenage days, when she took part in several beauty pageants. In 1985 she won the Miss Teen All American pageant and in 1986 the Miss Ohio USA pageant. After placing first and second in the Miss USA pageant in 1986, Berry quit her studies to pursue a career in modeling. In the late 1980s she moved first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her career as a model and actress.
Halle Berry began her acting career in 1989 as Emily Franklin on the ABC television series Living Dolls . In 1991, she played a minor role as drug addict Vivian in Spike Lee’s film Jungle Fever . The next year she starred in the romantic comedy Boomerang. Her other film roles include the character Sharon Stone in The Flintstones (1994), a drug addict Khaila Richards in Losing Isaiah (1995), an intelligent woman raised by activists in Berlin Bulworth (1998), and as Dorothy Dandridge in the television documentary by 1999 Dorothy Dandridge introduces herself which earned her an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award.
In 2000, she played the mutant character Storm in the critically acclaimed superhero film X-Men , as well as Leticia Musgrove, the wife of a man sentenced to death, in Monsters Ball , which won her multiple awards. In 2002, she became the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress after her performance in the film Monsters Ball . In 2002, Berry played the role of the Bond Girl opposite Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day . The next year, she reprized her role as Storm in X-Men 2 and also landed a starring role as a psychiatrist in Gothika . In addition, she has featured in other films such asCatwoman (2004), Robots (2005) and Perfect Stranger (2007) . She also played the character Frankie, a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder Frankie & Alice (2010) and more.
Halle’s creative and multifaceted abilities have won her career multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
parents
Halle Berry was born to a white Liverpool mother, Judith Ann, and an African American father, Jerome Jesse Berry. After Halle’s parents divorced when she was only four years old, she was raised by her mother, Judith, a psychiatric nurse. Judith relocated Halle and her older sister, Heidi Berry Henderson, to the predominantly white Bedford suburb of Cleveland, where she faced massive attacks of racism.
Halle Berry husband, divorce, children
Halle Berry’s married life was not as successful as her career. She has been married three times. First to a baseball player David Justice. They were married from 1993 to 1997. Her second husband was musician Eric Benet. Their marriage, which officially began in 2001, was also short-lived, lasting just four years. In 2013 she married French actor Olivier Martinez. However, the union ended in 2016.
Halle had other romantic relationships that didn’t eventually lead down the aisle. From March 1989 to October 1991, she dated a dentist, John Ronan. She briefly dated actor Shemar Moore between 1997 and 1998. In 2005, Halle was also dating French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry and in March 2008 they had a daughter, Nahla Ariela Aubry. Her third marriage to Olivier Martinez produced a son named Maceo-Robert who was born on May 5 October 2013. Halle is also linked to dating Alexander Grant in 2017.
Wealth (income and earnings)
Halle Berry’s hard work and dedication in the entertainment industry has paid off and made her a good fortune. In addition to her acting earnings, she earns earnings from her French lingerie brand, Scandale Paris , and popular fragrance, Halle . She is also a brand ambassador for the Revlon brand. One of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, Halle Berry has a net worth of $80 million.
Height
The beautiful and talented actress stands at anaverage height of 1.65 m, and weight is 55 kg. The body measurements of the former beauty queen are 91 cm (36 inches), 66 cm (26 inches) and 94 cm (37 inches).
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