Golden Globe Award winner Halle Berry starred in and executive produced HBOs acclaimed film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for which she received the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, and three NAACP Image Awards, including Entertainer of the Year. Prior to that, she starred opposite Warren Beatty in Twentieth Century Foxs political comedy Bulworth (1998), and in the Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (1998)
Berrys other feature film credits include her film debut opposite Samuel L Jackson in Spike Lees Jungle Fever (1991); Stephen Gyllenhaals Losing Isaiah (1995), opposite Jessica Lange; Stuart Bairds Executive Decision (1996), for which she won the Blockbuster Award® for Best Actress in an Action Drama; Brian Levants international hit live-action version of The Flintstones, and Reginald Hudlins Boomerang, with Eddie Murphy.
For television, Berry starred in the miniseries Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding; Showtimes original telefilm Solomon and Sheba, opposite Jimmy Smits; and in the title role in Alex Haleys miniseries Queen, which became the highest-rated sequel in television history. Berrys performance earned her the NAACP Image Award for Best Actress, as well as the Best Newcomer Award from the Hollywood Womens Press Club.
In 1998, in honor of her achievements as an actress, the Harvard Foundation at Harvard University honored her as Cultural Artist of the Year.
Berry, who was the first runner-up in the 1986 Miss USA pageant and was recently named one of the People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, continues her work as an international spokesperson for Revlon.
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- 14th August 1966 - Birth