Halle Berry Biography: Award Winning Actress and Producer

Halle Berry was born Maria Halle Berry in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 14, 1966, to Judith Ann, a white English immigrant from Liverpool, and Jerome Jesse Berry, an African-American man. Halle Berry grew up in Oakwood, Ohio, and graduated from Bedford High School, where she was a cheerleader, honor student, editor of the school newspaper, and prom queen.

Career

Halle Berry was a teenage finalist in national beauty pageants, worked in modeling, and beganactingon television in 1989. Halle Berry is best known for her performance in andlsquo;Monster’s Ball. Halle Berry’s role in the film andlsquo;Monster Ball won her an andlsquo;Academy Award for andlsquo;Best Actress in a Leading Role and made her the first woman of African-American descent to win the award.

Halle Berry is the first African American to be nominated for a best-actress Oscar, in the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Halle Berry made her directorialdebutwithBruised(2020), in which she starred as a washed-upmixed martial artsfighter seeking redemption in the ring and as a mother.

In April 2013, Halle Berry appeared in a video clip for Gucci’s “Chime for Change” campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women’s issues in terms of education, health, and justice.

Halle Berry Family

Berry was previously married three times: to David Justice from 1993 to 1997, to Eric Benandeacute;t from 2001 to 2005, and to Olivier Martinez from 2013 to 2016.

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