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Halle Berry
Age: 43
Height: 5' 6"
Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Born: Aug. 14th, 1966
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BIOGRAPHY: Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966 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 Berry. 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 eventually led to her first weekly TV series, 1989's "Living Dolls" (1989), where she soon gained a reputation for her on-set 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 (I)'s love interest in Boomerang (1992), 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 The Flintstones (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 super-stardom. 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.
TRIVIA:
- On Febuary 26, 2005, she showed up in person to accept the Razzie award for Worst Actress for her role as _Catwoman (2004)_ (qv) and became the first actress to do so. Accepting the award, Berry smiled and said "Thank you and I hope to God I never see you guys again."
- Moved to a residence in Saint-Hyacinthe (Montreal), Quebec, Canada in mid October, 2008.
- (1986) Miss Ohio USA.
- Half British on her mother's side.
- (1985) Miss Teen All American.
- Her parents, Judith Ann Hawkins & Jerome Jesse Berry, divorced when she was 4 years old. She was then raised by her mom. When researching for her role of 'Dorothy Dandridge' (qv), she discovered that she and Dorothy were both born in the same Cleveland, Ohio hospital.
- One of only three actresses, along with 'Faye Dunaway' (qv) and 'Liza Minnelli' (qv), to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Razzie Award for Worst Actress (Dunaway shared her award with 'Bo Derek' (qv)).
- Named one of the 50 most beautiful people in People Magazine in 2003.
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