Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry ( ; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the 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 of 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 color. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments 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), 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 a number of projects in which she performed, such as 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. She has two children, one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry. Provided by Wikipedia