Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first woman of color and, as of 2023, the only Black woman to have won the award. She took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004), the latter for which she received US$12.5 million.
A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. She launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed, such as the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). She appeared in the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised (2020).
Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996. She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez. She has two children, one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry.
Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first woman of color and, as of 2023, the only Black woman to have won the award. She took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004), the latter for which she received US$12.5 million.
A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. She launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed, such as the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). She appeared in the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised (2020).
Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996. She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez. She has two children, one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry.
Known for
Never Let Go
The Union
Hollywood's Hard Hitters: Women in Action
Thug Rose: Mixed Martial Artist
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Sidney
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale
Bruised
Celebrity IOU
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Tamron Hall
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Kings
Drop the Mic
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Kidnap
Kevin Hart: What Now?
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Hot Ones
Extant
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
And the Oscar Goes To...
The Call
Movie 43
Cloud Atlas
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
Dark Tide
New Year's Eve
Frankie & Alice
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
The Jay Leno Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Things We Lost in the Fire
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Perfect Stranger
The Graham Norton Show
X-Men: The Last Stand
Robots
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Many Faces of Catwoman
Catwoman
John Travolta: The Inside Story
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Gothika
Christmas in Hollywood
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
X2
Punk'd
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Die Another Day
Bond Girls Are Forever
Sucré salé
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The Bernie Mac Show
The Concert for New York City
America: A Tribute to Heroes
Swordfish
Monster's Ball
X-Men
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
The Early Show
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Welcome to Hollywood
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Bulworth
The Wedding
Behind the Music
The View
B.A.P.S
The Rich Man's Wife
E! True Hollywood Story
The Daily Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Girl 6
Executive Decision
MADtv
Losing Isaiah
Solomon & Sheba
Inside the Actors Studio
The Flintstones
Intimate Portrait
The Program
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Father Hood
CB4
Alex Haley's Queen
Martin
Boomerang
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Last Boy Scout
Strictly Business
Jungle Fever
The Simpsons
Living Dolls
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
A Different World
Wetten, dass..?
Knots Landing
Saturday Night Live
Miss USA
The Oscars
Today
Bambi Awards