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Halle Berry


Halley Berry: Making Black History

Halle Berry is the first African-American ever to win an Oscar as best actress. She won the award on 24 March 2002 for her starring role in the drama Monster's Ball (2001, co-starring Billy Bob Thornton). Berry went from the world of beauty pageants in the mid-1980s to a television series, Living Dolls in 1989. In 1991 she began performing in feature films, including Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.
Halle Berry is the first African-American ever to win an Oscar as best actress. She won the award on 24 March 2002 for her starring role in the drama Monster's Ball (2001, co-starring Billy Bob Thornton). Berry went from the world of beauty pageants in the mid-1980s to a television series, Living Dolls in 1989. In 1991 she began performing in feature films, including Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.

Halle Berry: Childhood

Born August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, Halle Maria Berry was raised by her mother Judith, a psychiatric ward nurse, with her older sister Heidi. Judith's husband, Halle's father, walked out on her family when she was only four years old. Although living in a single parent household was somewhat tough; Halle's mom managed to move the family out of the inner city neighborhood and into the suburbs of Cleveland. Because the neighborhood was predominantly white, Halle and her sister were treated cruelly because of their dark skin.

Halle Berry: Stardom

In 1983, when she was only 17 years old, Halle's boyfriend at the time entered her name in the Miss Teen Ohio beauty pageant. Once again, it's no surprise that Halle got to wear the crown in that competition. But it didn't stop there, Halle won many other high-profile competitions, including Miss Teen All American, Miss USA and Miss World. Once she was done raking in points by winning pageant after pageant, Halle continued her education at Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College in 1986, studying broadcast journalism Unfortunately, Halle didn't complete her degree -- she left the program to pursue a more glamorous career in modeling, and started studying acting in Chicago. Although Halle auditioned for soap opera and drama guru Aaron Spelling for a part in Charlie's Angels and didn't get the part, Spelling encouraged Halle to pursue her dreams of being an actress.
In 1993, Halle landed a starring role opposite none other than the comedy man himself, Eddie Murphy in Boomerang. This is the same year that she met, fell in love with, and married Atlanta Braves right fielder David Justice. Unfortunately, the marriage was short-lived and they divorced a few years later But on a happier note, Halle became engaged to soul singer Eric Benet in 1999, and eventually married the R&B singer and actor in 2001.
It was her riveting big-screen role as an illiterate addict who abandons her child in a garbage can in Losing Isaiah that shot Halle's star up high. She decided to take a lighter acting job after that and starred in the 1994 movie The Flintstones. Unfortunately for Halle, she missed the role of a lifetime when she passed up the lead in the film Speed, which ultimately worked wonders for Sandra Bullock's career.

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