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Halle Berry
Born August 14 1966, in
Cleveland, Ohio, Halle 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.
By
the time Halle reached high school, she was a cheerleader,
an honor society member, editor of the school paper, and
class president. Not surprisingly, she was crowned her
high school's prom queen.
Halle Berry has 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
Berry
continued her education at Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community
College in 1986, studying broadcast journalism.
Halle got her first big
break in 1989, when Spike Lee cast her as a crack-addicted
woman in Jungle Fever starring opposite Samuel L.
Jackson. She was so determined to execute the role
perfectly, that Halle actually interviewed real addicts
and stopped bathing ten days before filming the racially
charged film.
Soon after that, Halle
reverted back to television and had a recurring role on
the popular nighttime soap opera, Knots Landing in
1991. But the big screen was Halle's goal and she soon
landed another part, this time playing the exotic
girlfriend of Damon Wayans in the film The Last Boy
Scout, which also starred Bruce Willis.
Other movies that Halle
starred in include Executive Decision (1996); Race
the Sun (1996); B*A*P*S (1997); a TV
mini-series called The Wedding (1998) Bulworth
(1998); and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for
which she won a Golden Globe Award.
More recently, Halle
starred in the live film adaptation of the cartoon X-Men
and she presently makes a whopping $2.5 million for each
film role she accepts and has returned to modeling
recently posing for Revlon. Because Halle was diagnosed
with diabetes not too long ago, she is an avid volunteer
of the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
Halle has accomplished
much fame and fortune in her professional career, but it's
evident that she's going to be around for quite a long
time.
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