Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry born Maria Halle Berry August 14 1966 is an American actress She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests finishing as the first runnerup in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986 Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang 1992 alongside Eddie Murphy which led to roles in The Flintstones 1994 and Bulworth 1998 as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 1999 for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award Berry established herself as one of the highestpaid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monsters Ball 2001 becoming the first woman of color and as of 2023 the only Black woman to have won the award She took on highprofile roles such as Storm in four installments of the XMen film series 20002014 the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish 2001 Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day 2002 and the title role in the muchderided Catwoman 2004 the latter for which she received US125 million A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years with Perfect Stranger 2007 Cloud Atlas 2012 and The Call 2013 being among her notable film releases in that period She launched a production company 606 Films in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed such as the CBS science fiction series Extant 20142015 She appeared in the action films Kingsman The Golden Circle 2017 and John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 2019 and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised 2020 Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996 She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice singersongwriter Eric Benét and actor Olivier Martinez She has two children one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry