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Nama : Halle Berry
Birth Name : Halle Maria Berry
Birth Date : 08/14/1966
Birth Place : Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Height : 5' 7"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Jerome Jesse Berry
Mother : Judith Ann Hawkins
Spouse : David Justice (31-Dec-92 - 24-Jun-97), Eric Benet (24-Jan-01 - 3-Jan-05)
Relation : Shemar Moore, Heavy D, Gabriel Aubry (Versace model, since Jan 2006)
Claim Fame : As Vivian in "Jungle Fever" (1991)
Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress.
Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was named after Halle's
Department Store, a local landmark. Although she is generally
considered African American, she is biracial, with a white English-born
mother, Judith Ann Hawkins, and a black American father, Jerome Berry.
Berry's parents divorced when she was four years old and she was
subsequently raised by her mother, a psychiatric-ward nurse. She has an
older sister, Heidi.
Berry was a popular student at her high school and was a cheerleader,
honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president,
and prom queen. She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.
Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests
including Miss Ohio USA, Miss Teen All American, Miss USA, and Miss
World. Her talents as an actress have often been overshadowed by her
physical beauty.
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."
Berry auditioned for a role in an updated Charlie's Angels television
series by producer Aaron Spelling. At the time, Spelling wanted one of
the "Angels" to be a woman of color. She did not get the role but she
impressed Spelling with her skills. He encouraged her to continue
perfecting her craft.
In 1989, Berry landed the role of brainy Emily Franklin in the ABC
television series called Living Dolls. Her breakthrough feature film
role was in Jungle Fever where she played a drug addict named Vivian.
Her first co-starring role was in the film Strictly Business. Another
one of her early roles was in a supporting capacity in the Flintstones
movie where she played "Sharon Stone." She played the superhero Storm
in 2000 in the successful film, X-Men and again in the more successful
X2: X-Men United (2003). Gothika was the first film that she "carried,"
i.e., the film focusing entirely on her.
She won the best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball, becoming the
first African American woman to win this award. Interestingly, Berry
had played Dorothy Dandridge, the first African American woman to be
nominated for a best actress Academy Award, in HBO's Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge in 1999. Another similarity the two women shared was
being born in the same hospital.
In February 2000, she was involved in an automobile accident when she
struck another vehicle after running a red light and left the scene
before the police arrived. Berry, who had sustained a head injury,
later 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 services, and was placed on three
years’ probation.
Having long refused to do any nude scenes, much was made of her first
topless scene in the film Swordfish, a thirty second scene for which
she was allegedly paid an additional $500,000. She followed this with a
more extended nude love scene in Monster's Ball. As Bond Girl Jinx in
2002's Die Another Day she famously recreated the scene from Dr. No,
bursting from the surf - scantily clad - to be greeted by James Bond,
as Ursula Andress did 40 years earlier.
Berry has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1992 to baseball
player David Justice ended in a 1996 divorce. Her second marriage in
2001 to musician Eric Benét has resulted in a 2003 separation due to
Benét's infidelity. She has never had children herself, but is close to
her step-daughter India from her marriage to Benet, whom she legally
adopted.
She is expected get her "star" on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California sometime in 2004.
She has diabetes and is deaf (80% hearing loss) in one ear after being severely beaten by a former boyfriend.
