Halle Berry

Personal Info

Birthday

August 14, 1966

(58 years old)

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

Halle Maria Berry

Холли Берри

荷莉貝瑞

Miss Ohio USA 1986

Halle M. Berry

Хеллі Беррі

Хали Марија Бери

Miss World USA 1986

Halle Berry

Biography

Halle Maria Berry (HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the 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 highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and the first woman of color.