Halle Berry
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Halle Berry

Halle H. Berry aka Justice, Jordan, Martinez
Born 1960s.
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Biography

Halle Berry is an American actress. She has won numerous awards, and in 2001 became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Halle is the daughter of Judith Ann Hawkins and Jerome Jesse Berry, She and her older sister were raised by their mother, a nurse from Liverpool, England, in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford after their father left when Halle was four years old.[1]

She won several beauty pageants as a teen, and was first runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant[1] before beginning her long and successful movie career. Her first film, "Jungle Fever",directed by Spike Lee, was released in 1991. In 2001 she became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Monster's Ball", and as of 2022 remains the only one to do so.[2] As of 2022 she had been in 39 films and a 40th was in filming.[3]

Halle's first husband was Major League Baseball player David Justice. They were married on January 1st, 1993 in Atlanta.[4] They separated in 1996 and their divorce was finalized in 1997.[5]

Her second husband was R&B singer Eric Benét. They married in 2001and separated in 2003.[6]

She was married a third time in France in 2013 to French film star Olivier Martinez.[7] The couple had one son, Maceo, before divorcing in 2016.[8][9]

Halle also has a daughter, Nahla, from her relationship with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubrey.[7][9]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Reading Eagle, 5 Jul 1992, p. A8 Online Copy
  2. Official Academy Awards Database
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Berry
  4. The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia), 10 Jan 1993, Sun, p. 14 Free View of Article
  5. The Albany Herald, 25 Jun 1997, Online Copy
  6. "Halle Berry, Eric Benet Split", People Magazine, 2 Oct 2003 Online Copy
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Halle Berry is Married: Photos", People.com, 13 Jul 2013,> Online Copy
  8. "Halle Berry Finalizes Divorce from Olivier Martinez", Eonline.com, 30 Dec 2016, by Kendall Fisher Online Copy
  9. 9.0 9.1 "Halle Berry Gives Birth to Son", Cnn.com, 7 Oct 2013, by Alan Duke, [ https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/06/showbiz/halle-berry-birth/ Online Copy]

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Halle Berry born in my hometown of Cleveland OHIO NEEDS a
Halle Berry was an Ohioan.
posted by Anne Fiordalisi

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