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Halle Berry

Also known as Halle Maria Berry, Maria Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, first runner-up in Miss USA 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her early film roles include Boomerang (1992), The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998). She later produced and starred in the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Halle Berry is an American actress who began her career as a model and beauty contestant in the 1980s before transitioning to film roles in movies like Boomerang, The Flintstones, and Bulworth. She gained significant recognition for producing and starring in the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, becoming Miss Ohio in 1986, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986, and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy,…

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Instance of: human
Family name: Berry
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Cleveland
Spouse: Olivier Martinez
Occupation: film director
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Notable work: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Student of: Ivana Chubbuck
Image: Halle Berry-1910.jpg
Number of children: 2
Work location: United States
Residence: Bedford Heights

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Commons category: Halle Berry
date of birth: 1966-08-14
Commons gallery: Halle Berry
ethnic group: African Americans
birth name: Maria Halle Berry
start of work period: 1989-00-00
medical condition: type-1 diabetes
time period: 21st century
different from: Chloe x Halle
hashtag: HalleBerry
social media followers: 791982
writing language: English language
ancestral home: Kingdom of Great Britain

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Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, first runner-up in Miss USA 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her early film roles include Boomerang (1992), The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998). She later produced and starred in the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

For her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), she became the only African-American woman (so far) to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the first woman of color. Later roles include Storm in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), a villain in Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), a psychiatrist in Gothika (2003), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004).

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