Halle Berry is an American actress and fashion model who is best known as the winner of Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster’s Ball in 2002. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s.
Halle Berry has a height of 5 feet 5 inches and weighs 55kg. She has a pair of beautiful black eyes and gorgeous black hair, her body measurement is 36-26-37 inches. Her dress size is 6(US) and her shoe size is 7(US).
According to some online sources, she earns around $ 16 million yearly as an actress. Her major source of income is from the movies. She charges $ 10 to $ 15 million per movie. Apart from acting, she earns from the French Lingerie brand, Scandale Paris and Popular fragrance, Halle. she is also a brand ambassador for the Revlon brand.
In addition, she has a lush vacation home in Canada, the Canadian Hoose, worth $ 1.9 million. She owns a $ 5 million mansion in Malibu. A few of her luxury cars include BMW, Lexus RX. She also donates money for charity. She had played an important part in the Diabetes Awareness Campaign. As of 2019. Halle Berry has a net worth of $80 million.
Halle Berry was born on 14th August 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, the U.S. Her ethnicity is mixed (African, American, German and English). Her birth name is Halle Maria Berry and belongs to American nationality. She is the daughter of father Jerome Jesse Berry and mother Judith Ann Hawkins. Her mother worked as a psychiatric nurse and belongs to English and German ancestry, father worked in the psychiatric ward and belongs to an African-American society. She has two sisters: Heidi Berry and Renee Berry (paternal half-sister). When she was four years old, her parents had separated and she along with her sister were raised by her mother.
She had completed her high school from Bedford High School where she was a cheerleader, honor student. Then she studied at Cuyahoga Community College. She won Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She had also become Miss USA first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas in 1986. In the same year, she was the first African-American Miss World entrant.
Halle started her career in 1989. She played in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls. She made her first film debut in 1991 in "Jungle Fever" in a minor role as a drug addict from where her dedication and acting skills were being noticed and later from 1991 to 1995 she got to play in the TV series and movies like: "Alex Haley's Queen", "Losing Isaiah", "Boomerang". In 1996, she acted Sandra Beecher in Race the Sun. she received praise for her role in Bulworth as an intelligent woman in 1998.
The next year, she portrayed the first black woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later she acted in the movie Swordfish, which featured her first topless scene in 2001. She had also received $12.5 million for the title role in the movie Catwoman. In 2005, she had also awarded a Worst Actress Razzie Award. Similarly, she had appeared on New Year’s Eve in 2011 and in 2012, she had acted one of the leads in the film Cloud Atlas. In the next year, she had signed on to star in the CBS drama series Extant as well as play Molly Woods, an astronaut who struggles to reconnect with her husband after spending 13 months in space.
She had launched a new production company with producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas in 2014. She has taken the role of an assassin in the most popular movie "John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum" on May 17, 2019. Berry currently serves as executive producer of the BET TV series, Boomerang which premiered on Feb 12, 2019.
What are Halle Berry's achievements?
Moving towards the awards and achievements, she has won many awards in her life. She has achieved the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress, the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award. Subsequently, In 2013, she won the 'Tenn Choice Awards' for 'Choice Movie Actress: Drama' for her role in 'The Call'. In 2014, she won the 'Teen Choice Awards' for 'Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actress' for her role in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and 'Saturn Awards' for 'Best Actress' for her role in 'The Call'.
Additionally, She won the 'Kids' Choice Awards' for 'Favorite Female Action Star' for her role in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' in 2015.
She was previously married to baseball player David Justice and musician Eric Benet. Both of these marriages ended in divorce. She was once in a relationship with the model Gabriel Aubry with whom she had a daughter. On July 13, 213 she married actor Olivier Martinez and have a son named Maceo-Robert. However, they separated in 2016.
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As of 2019, she is the only woman of African-American descent to have won the Academy Award. Is the first black American in the Miss World Competition? She did not win a prize but her dress did. It is the first actress to star in a "Bond-film" following an Academy Award win. She is an active participant with the Genesee Center (for abused women and children) in Los Angeles. Can play the flute. She was placed on three years probation and ordered to pay $13,500 in fines and penalties after pleading no contest on May 10, 2000, to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of a traffic accident.