Halle Maria Berry 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 2014, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role.
Halle Berry won the Academy Award for best actress in 2002 for her portrayal of Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball. She was the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first (and to date only) African-American woman and (for 21 years, the only) woman of color to have won the award.
What role did Halle Berry win an Academy Award for?
Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win an. Oscar in the Best Actress category for her role as. Leticia Musgrove in the film 'Monster's Ball. '
Berry was born Maria Halle Berry, though her name was legally changed to Halle Maria Berry in 1971. Berry's parents selected her middle name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio.
Halle Berry is probably best known as one of the highest paid actress in Hollywood as well as a fashion model and previous to that a beauty pageant contestant. Many are suprised to know she also has type 1 diabetes.
Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in films, such as the family comedy The Flintstones (1994), the political comedy-drama Bulworth (1998) and the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award ...
Halle Berry represented Ohio at Miss USA in 1986. She was first-runner up to Miss Texas, Christy Fichtner, who was the first runner-up at Miss Universe. If Fichtner had won, Berry would have inherited the Miss USA crown.
Who is Halle Berry and what were her accomplishments?
Halle Maria Berry 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 2014, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role.
While Chloe x Halle was already a hugely successful YouTube channel, their real rise to fame came when the Queen B herself, Beyoncé, noticed their cover of her son 'Pretty Hurts' and promptly signed the duo to her label, Parkwood Entertainment, in 2015.
"In the '80s it was all about big hair, lots of makeup, and trying to look older than you really were," Berry once told us. After winning the Miss Ohio USA title, the well made-up pageant queen placed second in Miss USA and sixth in the Miss World competition.
Well known for "living" her roles, she refused to bathe for two weeks in preparation for a role as a crack addict in Jungle Fever (1991). Is the second "Bond girl" to win an Academy Award. The first was Kim Basinger. Lost some hearing in one of her ears due to a physical encounter with a boyfriend in the early 1990s.
Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model.
There were a lot of very confused people a few years ago when it was revealed that Halle Bailey had been cast as the live-action Ariel and people, who did not know Bailey from her music career, believed that Halle Berry had been cast in the role.
Halle Berry graced the red carpet at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles in a striking look. The award-winning actress wore a white keyhole cutout Tamara Ralph gown with thigh-high slits and shimmering pink rosettes on her neckline and thigh.
Being, you know, Halle Berry, the actor can rock (and has rocked) the hell out of any hairstyle. Lately, she's been wearing her hair in an uneven pixie cut, with her soft natural curls floating free.
