Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama film Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the only woman of African American descent to have won the award.
Berry was a teenage finalist in national beauty pageants, worked in modeling, and began acting on television in 1989. Film roles in Jungle Fever (1991), directed by Spike Lee, and in Boomerang (1992), starring Eddie Murphy, first brought her notice. She starred with Jessica Lange in Losing Isaiah (1995), a drama about adoption, before earning acclaim for her portrayal of film star Dorothy Dandridge, the first African American to be nominated for a best-actress Oscar, in the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). That performance earned her Emmy awards by primetime emmy awards and Golden Globe awards by golden globes, usa
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| Full name at birth | Maria Halle Berry
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| Claim to fame | Boomerang, Monster´s Ball and The X-Men movies as Storm
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| Date of birth | 14 August 1966
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| Place of birth | Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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| Occupation | Actress And Former Fashion Model
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| Height | 5' 5½" (166 cm)
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| Weight | 121 lbs (55 kg)
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| Dress size | 6
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| Shoe size | 7
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| Net worth | $80,000,000 USD
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| High school | Bedford High School, Bedford, Ohio, United States (1984)
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| University | Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio, United States (No Degree)
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| Talent agency | Vincent Cirrincione Associates
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- She smokes cigarettes
- Named one of the 50 most beautiful people in People Magazine in 2003.
- Measurements: 36C-22-37 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Announced she is pregnant with her first child, and due in March 2008.
- Was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People Magazine in 2005
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