Halle Berry - Biography

Last Editor: piranha_killers				Halle Berry Biography -   Name : Halle Berry Birth name : Halle Maria Berry Date of birth : August 14, 1966 Place of birth : Cleveland, Ohio, United States Education : Bedford High School in Cleveland (until 1984) Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio (majored in Broadcast Journalism; graduated in 1986) Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) Spouse(s) : David Justice (1992-1997) & Eric Benet (2001-2005) Domestic partner : Gabriel Aubry (2005-present)

Halle Berry Trivia -

Halle Berry is a spokeswoman for Revlon cosmetics. 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. The judge also ordered the actress to perform 200 hours of community service and to make restitution as determined by the outcome of civil litigation arising from the February accident when she was driving a rented Chevrolet Blazer and ran a red light and crashed into another car on Sunset Boulevard. She left the scene of the accident before authorities arrived, suffered a gash to her head that required 20 stitches to close, and the woman (Hetal Raythatha) driving the other vehicle broke her wrist. Halle reported the accident to a police officer at the hospital where she sought treatment. She was one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1998. She was Miss USA first runner-up in 1986. She became Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She became Miss Teen All American in 1985. She is named after the grand old Halle Building in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store. The building is now an office building and the fictional setting for the Winfred-Louder department store on "The Drew Carey Show" (1995). In high school, she was an honor society member, editor of the school paper, and class president. Was also crowned prom queen. She lost some hearing in one of her ears due to a physical encounter with a boyfriend in the early 90s. She is the first African American actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress. April 10, 2002 - She received an injury on the set of Die Another Day (2002). Halle was injured on location in Cadiz, Spain while shooting an action sequence that involved Pierce Brosnan firing on a helicopter being flown by Rick Yune. Portrayed Dorothy Dandridge in the made for television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV). Dorothy Dandridge was the first African- American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and coincidentally Halle Berry is the first to have won in that category. She was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People Magazine in 2002. She graduate of Bedford High School, Bedford, Ohio She is the first black American in the Miss World Competition. She didn't win a prize but her dress did. She is the only official "Bond Girl" to win an Academy Award. Although Kim Basinger (Best Supporting Actress, L.A. Confidential (1997)) was a "Bond Girl", Never Say Never Again (1983) is not included in the list of 20 official James Bond films. Her measurements: 36C-22-37 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) She became engaged to singer Eric Benet on 14 August 1999. Benet has a daughter, India (b. 1991). She is half British on her mother's side. She is the first actress to star and portray two different comic book characters for two different comic book companies: "Storm" for Marvel's X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003), and "Catwoman" for D.C Comics's Catwoman (2004). She was the highest paid black actress in Hollywood in 2004. Her dress for the 2002 Oscars ceremony was voted the most popular from the first 75 years. She ranked #96 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. She was Named one of the 50 most beautiful people in People Magazine in 2003. She was voted the 10th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002. She was voted as #7 on the "Top 100 Sexiest Women 2004" in FHM [DK]. She was named one of the Top 10 authentic beauties in 2004. She was in the seventh rank in that list. Her first $1 million salary for a film was for Executive Decision (1996) - a part which she earlier refused.... until she was offered $1 million. She was voted #7 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties." She ranked #15 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002). She was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People Magazine in 2005. She was voted #1 on BET's "All Shades of Fine: The 25 Hottest Women of the Past 25 Years" (2005). She was named #41 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list. She became Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 2006 Woman of the Year. She was named #5 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005) She was featured as #7 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement. (2002) She is the first actress to star in a "Bond-film" following an Oscar win. She adopted Eric Benet's daughter India. She was named #6 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006). She is an active participant with the Jenesee Center (for abused women and children) in Los Angeles. She was ranked #55 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list. Halle and her partner Gabriel Aubry became the parents of a daughter named Nahla Ariela Aubry, born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on 16 March 2008. She was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire magazine in 2008.

Halle Berry Detailed Biography -

Born August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio, Halle is the youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Halle, and her older sister Heidi, spent the first few years of their childhood living in an inner-city neighborhood. Her abusive father, Jerome Berry, abandoned his wife and children, and left the family when Halle was four years old. Halle was raised almost totally by her mother, Judith, a psychiatric nurse. Judith then moved her family to the predominantly white Cleveland suburb of Bedford. This rough start to her life did not deter her from excelling in whatever she did. Halle attended a nearly all-white public school, and as a result, she was subjected to discrimination at an early age. Throughout high school, Halle participated in a variety of extracurricular activities, holding positions of newspaper editor, class president, member of the honor society, varsity cheerleader, and prom queen. Halle won Miss Ohio, Miss Teen All-American, and in 1986, was first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant. She was the first African American to represent the U.S. in the Miss World competition in London. Halle attended Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College, where she studied broadcast journalism. Halle abandoned her idea of a career in news reporting however, choosing to wholeheartedly devote her time to a career in entertainment. She first moved to Chicago, then New York City, where she found work as a catalog model. Halle's acting career began in television with a role on the short-lived sitcom "Living Dolls". This was followed by a year-long run on the CBS prime time drama "Knot's Landing". Halle's first big screen break came later that year when she was cast as Samuel L. Jackson's drug addicted girlfriend in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever". More substantial supporting roles followed, including that of a stripper in the action-thriller "The Last Boy Scout", starring Bruce Willis. This success lead to Halle as the woman who finally wins Eddie Murphy's heart in the romantic comedy "Boomerang". Halle, now with a few films under her belt, accepted more offbeat roles, making cameos in the rockumentary "CB4" which traced the rise and fall of the titled rap group. She then starred in the live action version of "The Flintstones", featuring Halle as a Stone Age seductress, a very sexy and successful performance. Halle's next role was a no-holds-barred performance as a rehabilitated crack addict seeking to regain custody of her son in "Losing Isaiah". The story was set in the midst of a bitter custody battle with adoptive parents, played by Jessica Lange and David Strathairn. Later that year, Halle overcame Hollywood's racial barriers when she was cast as the first African American to play the Queen of Sheeba in Showtime's movie "Solomon & Sheeba". Halle has been introduced as the new Bond Girl, and we are sure to see her in a very sexy role in the near future.