Halle Berry
Movie Actress — born 1966
Halle Berry is an Academy Award winning actress best known for her role in ‘Monster’s Ball’.
Halle Berry is an American actress whose three-decade career produced one of the most-iconic 21st-century American Best Actress Oscar wins — making her the first and only African-American woman to win the Best Actress Academy Award. She was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of an African-American hospital orderly father and an English-American psychiatric nurse mother. Her father abandoned the family when she was four, and she was raised primarily by her mother. She attended Cuyahoga Community College and worked as an model in her early twenties.
Her film career began in 1989 with the ABC TV series Living Dolls (1989) and her 1991 film debut in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. Her 1990s career included Boomerang (1992, opposite Eddie Murphy), The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998, opposite Warren Beatty), and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999, the HBO TV movie for which she won the 2000 Best Actress Primetime Emmy Award).
Her Oscar came on March 24, 2002, for Best Actress in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball (2001) — making her the first and only African-American woman to win the Best Actress Academy Award in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards. Her acceptance speech — "This moment is so much bigger than me" — has been continuously cited as one of the American Oscar acceptance moments.
Her Bond Girl role as Jinx Johnson in Die Another Day (2002, opposite Pierce Brosnan) established her 2000s commercial-action-film visibility. Other roles included X-Men film franchise (2000, 2003, 2006, 2014, where she played the Storm), Catwoman (2004, the critically-disastrous superhero film), Cloud Atlas (2012), and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019). She made her directorial debut with the 2020 Netflix MMA-themed drama Bruised. She has been married three times and has two children.
Her name Halle is the modern American spelling variant of Hallie (a short form of Harriet, from the Old Germanic Heimirich). Halle has been continuously among the most-popular American girls' names for decades.
About the name Halle
Gender: Female · Origin: English