Before taking home her historic Academy Award, Berry's career was a balance of blockbusters (Die Another Day, X-Men) and critically acclaimed dramas (Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge).
Despite her professional success and stunning beauty, Berry seemed to be unlucky in love: she divorced Atlanta Braves baseball player David Justice and singer Eric Benét. But in her 40s, the Oscar winner fulfilled a lifelong dream when she welcomed her daughter Nahla with model Gabriel Aubry and found love with fiancé, French actor Olivier Martinez.
amed after a department store in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry was a Miss USA contestant before heading to Chicago to pursue modeling.
Her role in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever in 1991 put her on the map, but it wasn't until her performances in X-Men as Storm and rolling around on the carpet with Billy Bob Thornton in the award winning Monster's Ball that she became a true superstar.
Beautiful Berry has been a double-edged sword, capable of pulling off serious Oscar-winning performances and popcorn action roles at the same time.
For five years, Berry was married to pro baseball player David Justice, before entering a four-year marriage to R&B singer Eric Benet. Unbelievably, Benet was unfaithful to the utterly hot Berry.
Lately, her love life is seeing some sunshine with Versace model Gabriel Aubry. The pair welcomed daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry in March 2008.
Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio to U.S. African father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and U.S. European mother Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also has an older sister named Heidi Berry. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years 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 U.S.A. Pageant. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model. It eventually led to her first weekly TV series, 1989's Living Dolls, 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 because the role provided her big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang, 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 The Flintstones. She next had a highly publicized costarring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah. Though the movie received mixed reviews, Berry didn't let that slow her down, and continued down her path to super-stardom. 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. The following year, she won even greater acclaim for her role as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, 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 in which she played "Storm", a mutant who has the ability to control the weather. See full bio on IMDb »
No comments:
Post a Comment