Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry ˈhæli HALee born Maria Halle Berry August 14 1966 is an American actress She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests becoming Miss Ohio in 1986 finishing as the first runnerup in the Miss USA pageant of 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986 Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang 1992 alongside Eddie Murphy which led to roles in The Flintstones 1994 and Bulworth 1998 as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 1999 for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award Berry established herself as one of the highestpaid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s For her performance as a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monsters Ball 2001 Berry became the only AfricanAmerican woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and the first woman of colour Berry took on highprofile roles such as Storm in four instalments of the XMen film series 20002014 the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish 2001 Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day 2002 a psychiatrist in Gothika 2003 and the title role in the muchderided Catwoman 2004 A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years with Perfect Stranger 2007 Cloud Atlas 2012 and The Call 2013 being among her notable film releases in that period Berry launched a production company 606 Films in 2014 and has been involved in the production of several projects in which she has performed including the CBS science fiction series Extant 20142015 She appeared in the action films Kingsman The Golden Circle 2017 and John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 2019 and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised 2020 Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996 She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice singersongwriter Eric Benét and actor Olivier Martinez Berry has two children She shares her first child with her former partner model Gabriel Aubry and her second child with Martinez Description above from the Wikipedia article Halle Berry licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia