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BEIJING, Jan. 25 -- Three years after winning an
Oscar, Halle Berry has been nominated for a Razzie in the category of worst
actress.
Biography for Halle Berry
Birth name: Halle Maria Berry
Nickname: Hannah Little
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
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Halle
Berry was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA to African American
father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and Caucasian mother Judith
Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also has an older sister named Heidi.
Halle first came into the spotlight at 17 years old when she won the Miss Teen
All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and a year later in
1986 when she was the first runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant. After
participating in the pageant, Halle became a model. It eventually led to her
first weekly TV series, 1989's "Living Dolls" (1989), where she soon gained a
reputation for her on set tenacity, preferring to "live" her roles and remaining
in character even when the cameras stopped rolling. It paid off though when she
reportedly refused to bathe for several days before starting work on her role as
a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) because the role provided her
big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love
interest in Boomerang (1992), one of the few times that Murphy was evenly
matched on screen. In 1994, Berry gained a youthful following for her
performance as sexy secretary Sharon Stone in The Flintstones (1994). She next
had a highly publicized costarring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama
Losing Isaiah (1995). Though the movie received mixed reviews, Berry didn't let
that slow her down, and continued down her path to superstardom. In 1998, she
received critical success when she starred as a street smart young woman who
takes up with a struggling politician in Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998). The
following year she won even greater acclaim for her role as actress Dorothy
Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV), for
which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In
2000, she received box office success in X-Men (2000) in which she played Storm,
a mutant who has the ability to control the weather.
(Agencies) |