Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 141966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contestsbecoming Miss Ohio in 1986finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992)alongside Eddie Murphywhich 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 highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance as a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001)Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actressand the first woman of colour. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four instalments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014)the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002)a psychiatrist in Gothika (2003)and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004).

A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent yearswith Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. Berry launched a production company, 606 Filmsin 2014 and has been involved in the production of several projects in which she has performedincluding the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). 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 Justicesinger-songwriter Eric Benétand actor Olivier Martinez. Berry has two children. She shares her first child with her former partnermodel Gabriel Aubryand her second child with Martinez.

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