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. Before becoming an actress, Berry was 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.[5] Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic
comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which
led to roles in films, such as the family comedy The Flintstones (1994),
the political comedy-drama Bulworth (1998) and the television
film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won
a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In addition to
her Academy Award, Berry garnered high-profile roles in the 2000s, such
as Storm in X-Men (2000), the thrillers Swordfish (2001)
and Gothika (2003), and the spy film Die Another Day (2002),
where she played Bond girl Jinx. She then appeared in the X-Men sequels, X2 (2003)
and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). In the 2010s, she has
featured in the science-fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012), the
crime thriller The Call (2013), X-Men: Days of Future
Past (2014), and the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019). Berry was one of
the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s, and has
been involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed.
Berry is also a Revlon spokesmodel.[6] She was formerly married to baseball player David
Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez.
She has a child each with Martinez and model Gabriel Aubry.