Halle Berry was born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966 is an American actress. Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster’s Ball (2001), becoming the only woman of African American descent to win the award.

Before becoming an actress, Berry was a model and participated in several beauty contests, ending as the first finalist in the Miss USA contest and finishing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her role as a revolutionary film was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, who has led to roles in films such as the family comedy The Flintstones (1994), the political drama Bulworth (1998) and the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in the 2000s and participated in the production of several of the films in which she appeared. Berry is also a model of Revlon spokesperson. [6] She was previously married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét and actor Olivier Martinez. She has one child each with Martinez and the model Gabriel Aubry.

Berry and Martinez confirmed their engagement in March 2012 and were married in France on July 13, 2013. In October 2013, Berry gave birth to their son. In 2015, after two years of marriage, the couple announced their divorce. The divorce became final in December 2016.