Known as: Halle
Berry
Birth Name: Halle Maria Berry
Nickname: Hannah Little
Birthday: August 14 1968 at 1:00 pm
Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio USA
Height: 173cm (5' 7")
Weight: 51kg (113lb)
Hair Colour: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Claim to fame: as Vivian in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991).
Nationality: American
Education: Bedford High School Cleveland (until 1984); Cuyahoga
Community College Cleveland (majored in Broadcast Journalism;
graduated in 1986)
Occupation: Actress
Golden Globe Award
winner Halle Berry starred in and executive produced HBO’s
acclaimed film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for which she
received the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award,
and three NAACP Image Awards, including Entertainer of the Year.
Prior to that, she starred opposite Warren Beatty in Twentieth
Century Fox’s political comedy Bulworth (1998), and in
the Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (1998)
Berry’s other
feature film credits include her film debut opposite Samuel
L Jackson in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991); Stephen Gyllenhaal’s
Losing Isaiah (1995), opposite Jessica Lange; Stuart Baird’s
Executive Decision (1996), for which she won the Blockbuster
Award® for Best Actress in an Action Drama; Brian Levant’s
international hit live-action version of The Flintstones, and
Reginald Hudlin’s Boomerang, with Eddie Murphy.
For television, Berry
starred in the miniseries Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding;
Showtime’s original telefilm Solomon and Sheba, opposite
Jimmy Smits; and in the title role in Alex Haley’s miniseries
Queen, which became the highest-rated sequel in television history.
Berry’s performance earned her the NAACP Image Award for
Best Actress, as well as the Best Newcomer Award from the Hollywood
Women’s Press Club.
In 1998, in honor
of her achievements as an actress, the Harvard Foundation at
Harvard University honored her as Cultural Artist of the Year.
Berry, who was the
first runner-up in the 1986 Miss USA pageant and was recently
named one of the People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People
in the World, continues her work as an international spokesperson
for Revlon.
