Halle Berry

The daughter of a nurse of Caucasian origin and an Afro-American, an orderly at the same hospital, the mixture of races explains the irresistible refinement of her unusual features. Born in Cleveland (Ohio), on August 14, 1966, Halle Maria Berry has always had a very special bond with her mother, because although she gets along well with her father, she never fully forgave him for leaving home when he was just with four years of age. Although she returned four years later, she was never the same. At that time, little Halle faced the problems caused by the mixture of her races, because according to her, neither whites nor blacks accepted her at all. “Even so, my mother told me that she always considered myself as African American, because that was how the rest of the people were going to perceive me,” she recounted in an interview.

He also felt the suspicion of some schoolmates because of his attractiveness. Since she was elected a beauty queen during her high school studies, she decided to try her luck in miss pageants. She did not allow herself to be dominated by the frivolity that surrounds these types of contests, and she showed intelligence by taking advantage of the benefits of it to pay for her journalism career. These studies gave her stable work on television, behind the cameras, although she later decided to become an actress, first in a brief theatrical tour and then on the small screen. Although her first series, Living Dolls , was not very successful, lasting only three months, she next starred in Knots Landing ., which was one of the most watched soap operas of 1991 in the United States. She had trouble making it to the movies, as she was fired from the dispensable sitcom Strictly Business because she was too white for the role. However, she was supported by those responsible for the film, who managed to rehire her. In the cast appeared, in small roles, actors who would later give people talk, such as Isaiah Washington , Sam Rockwell and Samuel L. Jackson , with whom she would also coincide in Wild Fever (1991). Her portrayal of a young crack addict in this Spike Lee drama drew critical acclaim.

While growing up in the cinema as a secondary school in titles such as The Last Boy Scout , Boomerang: The Prince of Women , My Father’s Public Enemy No. 1 or The Flintstones , he carved out a career as a model, becoming the image of a famous brand of cosmetics. She was not doing so well in her private life, since her marriage to basketball star David Justice broke up at the age of three, after some disastrous mistreatment that caused her almost total deafness in her left ear. This was a trauma that almost led her to suicide, although luckily she did not do it, in her own words “because she thought about what my mother was going to suffer.” She then chose to forget her disastrous experience collaborating in various charitable campaigns.

The actress keeps a very special memory of Dorothy Dandridge , television production about the first black performer nominated for an Oscar for best leading actress. With a great physical resemblance to Berry herself, who was also born in the same hospital, the prematurely deceased Dorothy Dandridge accomplished this feat for Carmen Jones : which was a prescient of the success that she herself would have, shortly after, at the Oscars. In those days, she rebuilt her life by marrying the singer Eric Benet, father of a girl that Berry practically accepts as her own.

With dyed white hair, she convinced demanding comic book readers that she was the ideal actress to play Ororo Munroe, better known as Storm, in X-Men , an adaptation of the famous comic. The success of this film marked a turning point in the career of Halle Berry, who we will soon see reprising her role in X-Men 2 , which she agreed to film in exchange for a greater role. She then was offered everything, for example a supporting role in an action tape, Operation Swordfish . But she also provided him with a much more complex job, that of Leticia Musgrove, a long-suffering waitress who must face the death of her husband, executed, and her son, in an accident, in the drama  Monster’s Ball .. Even though the Academy Award made her one of the industry’s most sought-after performers, she followed through on her promise to be a Bond girl in Die Another Day . She stole part of the movie from Pierce Brosnan himself , and it’s been rumored that she could star in a movie where her character Jinx of hers would star.

She is currently filming under the orders of the veteran Sidney Lumet , in The Set-Up , but the French Mathieu Kassovitz has also noticed her , with whom she will star in Gothika , a supernatural horror story where she plays a psychiatrist who helps to recover her memory to a patient, accused of a crime and manipulated by spirits. In the future we could see her in the dramas Need , by Luis Mandoki and The Guide , by Lee Tamahori , director of Die Another Day .