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HALLE BERRY
Name:
Halle Berry. Birth Name: Halle Maria Berry. Height: 5'.'7".
Nationality: American. Date: August 14, 1968 at 1:00 pm. Birth
Place: Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Occupation: Actress. Education:
Bedford High School, Cleveland (until 1984), Cuyahoga Community College,
Cleveland (majored in Broadcast Journalism; graduated in 1986). Husband:
Eric Benet (jazz musician; engaged on August 14, 1999; married on 24,
January 2001), David Justice (Atlanta Braves right fielder; married on New
Year's Day 1993; divorced in 1996). Relationship: Wesley Snipes
(actor), Shemar Moore (actor) . Father: Jerome Berry (African
American; former hospital attendant; divorced when Berry was 4 years old.).
Mother: Judith Ann Hawkins (Caucasian; a registered nurse).
Sister: Heidi (2 years older). Step daughter: India (born in
1991; father: Eric Benet). Agent: Bill Butler C/O William Morris
Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, Ca 90212, USA.
BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS:
Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA to African
American father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and Caucasian
mother Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also has an older
sister named Heidi. Halle first came into the spotlight at 17 years old when
she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio
in 1985 and a year later in 1986 when she was the first runner-up in the
Miss USA Pageant. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model.
It would eventually lead to her first weekly TV series, 1989's "Living
Dolls" (1989), where she soon gained a reputation for her onset tenacity,
preferring to "live" her roles and remaining in character even when the
cameras stopped rolling. It paid off though when she reportedly refused to
bathe for several days before starting work on her role as a crack addict in
Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) because the role provided her big screen
breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love
interest in _Boomerang (1992)_ (qv), one of the few times that Murphy was
evenly matched on screen. In 1994, Berry gained a youthful following for
her performance as sexy secretary Sharon Stone in Flintstones, The (1994).
She next had a highly publicized costarring role with Jessica Lange in the
adoption drama Losing Isaiah (1995). Though the movie received mixed
reviews, Berry didn't let that slow her down, and continued down her path to
superstardom. In 1998, she received critical success when she starred as a
street smart young woman who takes up with a struggling politician in Warren
Beatty's Bulworth (1998). The following year she won even greater acclaim
for her role as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best
Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2000, she received box office success
in X-Men (2000) in which she played Storm, a mutant who has the ability to
control the weather.