Halle Berry
Since winning the EMMA Award (Film Actress)
Halle Berry is an American Actress who starred as the Bond Girl Jinx in the hit James Bond film Die Another Day, which was released in November 2002.
In 2007, she starred alongside Bruce Willis in the thriller Perfect Stranger. That same year, she was awarded the Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Following a series of smaller films, she emerged on the big screen to play numerous characters for the 2012 time-travelling epic Cloud Atlas, which the Wachowski Sisters directed.
Halle continued to star in various mainstream hits, such as Kingsman: The Golden Circle and John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum. She also served as executive producer of the BET series Boomerang, which was based on her earlier film.
In January 2023, she signed with the management company Range Media Partners as a producer and director.
In addition to her acting career, Halle has become a powerful advocate for survivors of childhood trauma and abuse. Through her philanthropic efforts and activism, she used her platform to raise awareness about trauma’s impact and empower survivors to reclaim their voices and lives, demonstrating her commitment to positively impacting the world.
Background (Before 2002)
Born as Maria Halle Berry to an English immigrant mother from Liverpool and an African American father, Halle Berry began her career as a model. She entered several beauty contests in the 1980s, winning Miss Teen All American 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986.
Halle finished as the first runner-up in the Miss USA 1986 pageant and was sixth in Miss World 1986, becoming the first African American Miss World entrant.
Halle began a career in television with a role on the short-lived sitcom Living Dolls, followed by a year-long run on the CBS prime-time drama Knots Landing in 1991.
Halle’s first big-screen break came later that year when she was cast in Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed film Jungle Fever. She then starred in The Last Boy Scout, starring Bruce Willis, and in the romantic comedy Boomerang alongside Eddie Murphy.
In 1995, Berry overcame Hollywood’s racial barriers when she was cast as the first African American to play the Queen of Sheba in the Showtime movie Solomon & Sheba.
In 1999, she co-produced and starred in the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. For her role, she earned a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie.
Halle also starred in the X-Men films as Storm and the 2001 dark drama Monster’s Ball. Her role in Monster’s Ball earned Berry a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. In her emotional acceptance speech, she acknowledged the honor of becoming the first African American woman to win the Oscar for best actress by thanking all the performers who came before her.
