Academy Award winner for Monster's Ball, former model and Revlon spokesmodel — style and glam coverage
Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2013, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role. She is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed, and is a Revlon spokesmodel. Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in 1992's Boomerang, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998). She reached a higher level of prominence in the new millennium as Storm in the X-Men film series (2000–present), Swordfish (2001), and Die Another Day (2002), where she played Bond Girl Jinx, later finding success in the 2010s with Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person, one of few people to do so.
Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle
Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress and former
fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002
for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and,
as of 2013, the only woman of African-American descent to win an
Oscar for a leading role. She is one of the highest paid
actresses in Hollywood and has been involved in the production
side of several of the films in which she performed. Berry is
also a Revlon spokesmodel. Before becoming an actress, Berry
entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up
in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss
World Pageant in 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in 1992's
Boomerang, which led to roles in films such as The Flintstones
(1994) and Bulworth (1998). In addition to her Academy Award
win, Berry reached a higher level of prominence in the new
millennium with roles such as Storm in the X-Men film series
(2000–present), Swordfish (2001), and Die Another Day (2002),
where she played Bond Girl Jinx, later finding success in the
2010s with movies such as Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call
(2013). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst
Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person,
one of few people to do so.
Berry's route runs through every level of the beauty and film industries in order: Miss USA 1st runner-up and Miss World 6th place in 1986, a modelling career, the breakthrough film role in Boomerang (1992), then The Flintstones and Bulworth, and finally the Academy Award for Monster's Ball in 2002. That sequence — pageant stage, fashion modelling, screen acting, awards stage — is why she fits this guide twice over: as a former model whose face sold cosmetics (she is a Revlon spokesmodel) and as an actress whose red carpet appearances are covered as fashion news.
The 2000s run — Storm in the X-Men series, Swordfish, Die Another Day as Jinx — kept Berry in franchise films whose costumes are part of the marketing, and the 2010s work in Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) kept the career moving. Accepting the 2005 Golden Raspberry Award for Catwoman in person, one of few people to do so, is the detail that rounds out the public image: a star willing to be seen at her least glamorous moment. This page gathers Halle Berry style and glam coverage, with the H-letter directory linking the rest of the letter.
Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2013, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986.
Berry played Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), alongside her run as Storm in the X-Men film series from 2000.
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