Halle Berry

Halle Berry: Biography in Details

Who is Halle Berry?

Halle Berry is an American actress.

She also won the 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.

Furthermore, she won the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and came in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986.

Additionally, she acted in the romantic comedy Boomerang in 1992, The Flintstones in 1994, Bulworth in 1998, and Dorothy Dandridge in 1999.

Halle Berry: Childhood, education, and family

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 the American nationality.

Halle Berry is the daughter of father Jerome Jesse Berry and mother Judith Ann Hawkins.

Her mother worked as a psychiatric nurse and belongs of English and German ancestry, and her father worked in the psychiatric ward and belongs to an African-American society.

Halle Berry has two sisters: Heidi Berry and Renee Berry (paternal half-sister).

When she was four years old, her parents separated and she along with her sister were raised by her mother.

Furthermore, she had completed her high school at Bedford High School where she was a cheerleader, and an honor student.

Then Halle Berry studied at Cuyahoga Community College.

She had won Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986.

Halle Berry had also become Miss USA’s first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas in 1986.

In the same year, she was the first African-American Miss World entrant.

Halle Berry: career history, awards, and net worth

Heading towards her career, she started her career in 1989.

Halle Berry had acted in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls.

She portrayed the lead character played by Eddie Murphy in the romantic comedy Boomerang in 1992.

In 1996, she acted as Sandra Beecher in Race the Sun.

Then Halle Berry received praise for her role in Bulworth as an intelligent woman raised by activists in 1998.

The next year, Halle Berry 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.

Subsequently, she appeared on New Year’s Eve in 2011, and in 2012,  she acted as one of the leads in the film Cloud Atlas.

In the next year, she signed on to star in the CBS drama series Extant as well as played Molly Woods, an astronaut who struggles to reconnect with her husband after spending 13 months in space.

She launched a new production company with producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas in 2014.

Through her hard work in her professional field, she has earned a net worth of $90 million. But her salary is unknown as of 2023.

Moving the awards and achievements, she has won many awards in her life.

Halle Berry has achieved the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress, the Primetime Emmy Award,  Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the Academy Award.

Is Halle Berry involved in any rumors and controversies?

As Halle Berry is a controversial woman, she had suffered from several rumors and controversy.

Her recent activities say that she had felt worthless as it did nothing to improve diversity in Hollywood when she won the Oscar awards which became a controversy.

Halle Berry: Body measurements

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).

Is Halle Berry active on social media?

Halle Berry is pretty active on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Currently, she has more than 454.5k followers on her Twitter account, over 7 million on Instagram, and over 4.1 million on Facebook.

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