Halle Berry
Date of
Birth: 14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birth Name:
Halle Maria Berry
Nicknames:
Height: 5' 5½"
(1.66 m)
Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to an African-American father,
Jerome Berry, a previous hospital assistant, and a European-American mother,
Judith (Hawkins) Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle has an older sister named Heidi
Berry. Halle first came into the attention at seventeen years at what
time she won the Miss Teen All-American parade, on behalf of the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986,
when she was the first loser in the Miss U.S.A. parade. After participating in
the parade, Halle became a replica. It finally led to her first paper
TV series, 1989's Living Dolls (1989), where she soon gained a standing for her
on-set tenacity, preferring to "live" her roles and residual in
nature even when the cameras stopped rolling. It paid off though when she
allegedly refused to bathe for more than a few days previous to beginning work
on her place as a fracture devotee in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) because
the role provided her big monitor burst through. The following year, she was
cast as Eddie Murphy's love attention inBoomerang (1992), one of the few eras
that Murphy was consistently coordinated on screen. In 1994, Berry gained a young following for her
presentation as sexy secretary "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones (1994).
She next had a highly exposed costarring role withJessica Lange in the
acceptance play Losing Isaiah (1995). Though the movie conventional mixed
reviews, Berry didn't let that slow her down and sustained down her trail
to super-stardom. In 1998, she conventional critical success when she starred
as a street smart youthful woman who takes up with a struggling official in
Warren Beatty's Bulworth(1998). The following year, she won even better acclaim
for her role as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in
a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2000, she conventional box office achievement in X-Men
(2000) in which she played "Storm", a misshapen who has the aptitude
to control the weather.