Halle Berry

Born: 1966-08-14 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Known For: Acting

Biography

Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, becoming Miss Ohio in 1986, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986, and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which 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 Actress, and 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 years, with 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 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of several projects in which she has performed, including 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 Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez. Berry has two children. She shares her first child with her former partner, model Gabriel Aubry, and her second child with Martinez. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halle Berry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026

Crime 101 as Sharon

2025

Number One on the Call Sheet as Self
Wick Is Pain as Self
An Oprah Winfrey Special: The Menopause Revolution as Self

2024

The Union as Roxanne Hall
Never Let Go as Momma
Hollywood Black as Self (archive footage)

2017

Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Ginger
Drop the Mic as Self
Kidnap as Karla Dyson
Kings as Millie Dunbar

2016

Kevin Hart: What Now? as Money Berry

2015

Hot Ones as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Extant as Molly Woods
X-Men: Days of Future Past as Storm

2013

Movie 43 as Emily (segment "Truth or Dare")
The Call as Jordan Turner

2012

Cloud Atlas as Native Woman / Jocasta Ayrs / Luisa Rey / Indian Party Guest / Ovid / Meronym
Dark Tide as Kate Mathieson
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You as Self