Growing up in Ohio, the actress Halle Berry dreamed of living near the ocean. In 2004, the year she starred in “Catwoman,” she paid $8.5 million for a contemporary beachfront house in Malibu, Calif., property records show.
Halle Berry, (born August 14, 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), American film actress, the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress.
As she developed a budding modeling career Berry also studied broadcast journalism at Cuyahoga Community College for a short time before she decided to become an actress. She traveled to Chicago where she modeled and learned about acting. In 1989 Berry was cast in a short-lived television series, Living Dolls.
Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant.
Growing up in Ohio, the actress Halle Berry dreamed of living near the ocean. In 2004, the year she starred in “Catwoman,” she paid $8.5 million for a contemporary beachfront house in Malibu, Calif., property records show.
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Does Halle Berry have a degree?
For a short time she attended Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College, where she studied broadcast journalism. However, Berry abandoned her idea of a career in news reporting before receiving her degree.
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.
Halle Berry is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Television & Film, Black Heritage and Diversity. The estimated speaking fee range to book Halle Berry for live events is $200,000 and above, and for virtual events $200,000 and above.
A driven, determined teen, Berry was a high school honor student, prom queen and beauty contestant who dabbled in broadcast journalism at Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College before pulling up stakes and eventually moving to New York, in 1989, to pursue her acting dream.
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 - The actress was married to Atlanta Braves baseball player David Justice from 1993 to 1996, but the union ended in a very messy and public divorce.
Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez filed for divorce in 2015 after a two-year marriage. Halle Berry has agreed to pay ex-husband Olivier Martinez $8,000 a month in child support as they share joint custody of their son, according to a document obtained by The Times.
Once again, actress Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry are at odds over the custody of their daughter, Nahla. After a particularly contentious custody battle, Berry and Aubry were granted joint custody of their daughter in 2012.
California law outlines that it is a parent's responsibility to support a child “according to circumstances and station” and to provide their children a “lifestyle commensurate” to their own, which can mean celebrities make high-dollar payments to ensure their children will live a similar lifestyle to the one that they ...
Halle Berry gave birth to her first child, Nahla, who she shares with ex-partner, French Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, at the age of 41. Six years later, at 47, she welcomed her son, Maceo, who she shares with ex-husband Olivier Martinez.
She plays the flute. Berry's breakthrough movie role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang, alongside EddieMurphy. In 1989, Berry was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Berry has two Barbie dolls in her likeness: Jinx Johnson from Die Another Day and Patience Phillips/Catwoman from Catwoman.
