She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first (and to date only) African-American woman and (for 21 years, the only) woman of color to have won the award. 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.īerry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. 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.
Halle Maria Berry ( / ˈ h æ l i/ HAL-ee born Maria Halle Berry August 14, 1966) is an American actress.
