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. 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'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 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.
BIOGRAPHY 2:
Birth name: Halle
Maria Berry
Nickname: Hannah Little
Height:
5' 7"