Halle Berry

Halle Berry Profile -

Name : Halle Berry
Birth Date : August 14, 1968
Birth Place : Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Height : 5' 7
Education : Bedford High School in Cleveland (until 1984)
Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio (majored in Broadcast Journalism; graduated in 1986)
Husband :
Eric Benet (jazz musician; born on October 15, 1970; engaged on August
14, 1999; married on 24, January 2001; separated on October 1, 2003.

Halle Berry Biography -

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  Born August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio,


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  Halle is the youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple.


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  Halle, and her older sister Heidi, spent the first few years of their childhood living in an inner-city neighborhood.


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  Her abusive father, Jerome Berry, abandoned his wife and children, and left the family when Halle was four years old.


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  Halle
  was raised almost totally by her mother, Judith, a psychiatric nurse.
  Judith then moved her family to the predominantly white Cleveland
  suburb of Bedford. This rough start to her life did not deter her from
  excelling in whatever she did.


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  Halle
  attended a nearly all-white public school, and as a result, she was
  subjected to discrimination at an early age. Throughout high school,
  Halle participated in a variety of extracurricular activities, holding
  positions of newspaper editor, class president, member of the honor
  society, varsity cheerleader, and prom queen.


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  Halle
  won Miss Ohio, Miss Teen All-American, and in 1986, was first runner-up
  in the Miss USA pageant. She was the first African American to
  represent the U.S. in the Miss World competition in London.


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  Halle attended Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College, where she studied broadcast journalism.


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  Halle
  abandoned her idea of a career in news reporting however, choosing to
  wholeheartedly devote her time to a career in entertainment. She first
  moved to Chicago, then New York City, where she found work as a catalog
  model.


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  Halle's acting career began
  in television with a role on the short-lived sitcom "Living Dolls".
  This was followed by a year-long run on the CBS prime time drama
  "Knot’s Landing".


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  Halle's first
  big screen break came later that year when she was cast as Samuel L.
  Jackson’s drug addicted girlfriend in Spike Lee’s "Jungle Fever". More
  substantial supporting roles followed, including that of a stripper in
  the action-thriller "The Last Boy Scout", starring Bruce Willis. This
  success lead to Halle as the woman who finally wins Eddie Murphy’s
  heart in the romantic comedy "Boomerang".


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  Halle,
  now with a few films under her belt, accepted more offbeat roles,
  making cameos in the rockumentary "CB4" which traced the rise and fall
  of the titled rap group. She then starred in the live action version of
  "The Flintstones", featuring


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  Halle
  as a Stone Age $eductress, a very $exy and successful performance.
  Halle's next role was a no-holds-barred performance as a rehabilitated
  crack addict seeking to regain custody of her son in "Losing Isaiah".
  The story was set in the midst of a bitter custody battle with adoptive
  parents, played by Jessica Lange and David Strathairn. Later that year,
  Halle overcame Hollywood's racial barriers when she was cast as the
  first African American to play the Queen of Sheeba in Showtime’s movie
  "Solomon & Sheeba". Halle has been introduced as the new Bond Girl,
  and we are sure to see her in a very sexy role in the near future.