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There’s no denying that you know who Halle Berry is. This world-famous actress appeared in many big-budget Hollywood blockbusters in the early 2000s and even made history as the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for the category of Best Actress for her role in the 2001 film Monster Ball. She also gained significant recognition for her role as the superpowered mutant Storm in the early 2000s X-Men movies and also had a prominent role as Jinx Johnson in the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day. She also starred as Catwoman in the eponymous 2004 movie adaptation, and while her performance in that flick wasn’t exactly what you’d call stellar (I mean, the whole movie wasn’t exactly stellar anyway), it’s still one of her most famous movie roles.

I remember watching Halle Berry in 2004’s Catwoman as a kid and cringing even at my young age as she desperately tried to look sexy while prancing around in that catsuit and fighting bad guys. She was also in a handful of other notable films back in the early 2000s, which were admittedly her peak era, including Swordfish (2001) Gothika (2003), and so on.

Then after a decade or so of having a washed-up era, Halle Berry once again reemerged with main roles in popular movies, including 2017’s Kidnap, 2013’s The Call, 2012’s Cloud Atlas, 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past and most recently, 2022’s Moonfall. Yeah, I didn’t hesitate to mention that Halle Berry sort of experienced a washed-up era from around the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s, and even today she doesn’t seem to be starring in movies that are as popular as Swordfish and Monster Ball were, but she’s still acting nonetheless, and looks sexy as hell for 57.

Yep, Halle Berry is almost 60, yet she still retains her youthful essence even today. A lot of people would be surprised to learn that she’s almost 60, but then again, a lot of people haven’t read up on Halle Berry and don’t even know her birthdate, and if you’re one of those people then keep reading to find out all the most relevant and updated info there is to know about this famous and iconic Hollywood actress.

Halle Didn’t Exactly Have An Easy Childhood

Halle Berry (full name Halle Maria Berry) was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio. She is mixed race, as her mom Judith Ann Hawkins is of English and German descent whereas her dad Jerome Jesse Berry is African American. Berry's parents both worked at the same psychiatric hospital; her mother was a psychiatric nurse and her father was a hospital attendant, and yes, you can probably already guess that they met in the same hospital that they worked in. But even though Halle Berry’s parents got together in a very romantic, movie-esque way, their relationship was far from perfect, as they divorced while Halle was still a young child, so she was primarily raised by her mother growing up.

Halle actually had a tumultuous childhood as a result of her parent’s divorce, witnessing frequent domestic violence within her family while she was still a child, which had a significant impact on her upbringing. This also inspired her to take up advocacy work against domestic violence later on in life after she became a globally famous movie star.

Despite Her Turbulent Childhood, Halle Was Still An Accomplished High School Student

Even though the young Halle Berry, a child of divorced parents, witnessed frequent bouts of domestic violence in her home which unquestionably traumatized her, she didn’t let it affect her grades. Halle persevered through it all and was an accomplished high school student at Bedford High School, where she also graduated. And not only did she have good grades, but she was also a cheerleader, an honor society member, and even prom queen (which proves that she was pretty even at a young age). After graduation from high school, Halle went on to attend Cuyahoga Community College, where she studied broadcast journalism. But it turned out that she wasn’t meant for the journalist life, as she never finished her college degree and instead pivoted towards a career in modeling.

I mean come on, you can’t be that pretty and want to be a journalist - it’s not like she wouldn’t have been a great news anchor or even weather girl, but it looks like somewhere along the line the young Halle Berry realized that she was far too pretty for such an occupation, so realistically speaking, she might’ve only gone to college as a failsafe plan, just in case she never made it as a model. And yes, she did indeed make it as a model - hell, Halle was even attending multiple high-profile beauty pageants even while still in college.

She Attended Various Pageants As A Teen And Moved Onto Acting After Finishing College

Not only was the young Halle Berry prom queen, but she was also Miss Teen All-American in 1985, as well as Miss Ohio USA in 1986. And that’s really no surprise there, since it’s safe to say that back then mixed-race girls were pretty rare, and the world hadn’t yet witnessed as pretty a mixed-race girl as Halle Berry. That said, Halle’s early involvement in beauty pageants provided her with her first taste of fame, and like many models-turned-actresses, it gave her the necessary experience of knowing how to handle fame.

Her success in beauty pageants motivated her to pursue modeling, so she promptly moved to Chicago and New York to pursue modeling after giving up on her rather boring journalism degree pursuit. And this was definitely a good move for her, as it wasn’t too hard for her to gain traction and attention as a young up-and-coming model; Halle quickly started to appear on the front covers of magazines as well as advertisements, pictured next to some of the biggest fashion and beauty brands in the world.

Halle Started To Take Acting Classes While Modeling

While Halle was still being photographed for magazine covers and advertisements meant to promote high-profile fashion and beauty brands, she started to also take up acting classes. She definitely knew that she had what it took to become an actress, and by golly did she take advantage of her momentum. By 1989, only a few years after becoming a professional model, Halle starred in her first official role as Emily Franklin in a short-lived US sitcom named Living Dolls. From then onwards, it was nothing but more and more TV and made-for-TV movie roles for the young Halle Berry. Eventually, she landed her first official movie role alongside the iconic Eddie Murphy in 1992’s Boomerang, where she played - you guessed it, the pretty love interest of the main male character.

She Eventually Broke Through Into The Movie Industry In The Early 90s, And Became An A-List Actress In Less Than A Decade

Yes, Halle Berry was cast as Eddie Murphy’s main squeeze in 1992’s Boomerang, a romantic comedy that revolves around the life of Reginald Hudlin (Eddie Murphy), a successful and charismatic advertising executive who sleeps with a new woman every week, but the ladies’ man meets Angela Lewis (Halle Berry) and sees that she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever met. Then she plays hard to get but eventually, Eddie Murphy’s character wins her over, and the movie ends with them getting together. A classic, male-centric 90s rom-com that adheres to the male fantasy - there’s no way in hell they’d make a movie like that today. Audiences loved Halle’s performance in that movie, and she quickly gained recognition and additional movie roles after it, which is why her IMDB page is studded with movie role after movie role from the early 90s and onwards.

From her appearance in Losing Isaiah (1994) to her role as Miss Stone in 1995’s live Flintstones film adaptation, Halle Berry was basically starring in movies non-stop throughout the 90s, and in just a couple of years, she became one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses. And as was mentioned earlier, by the time the 2000s rolled through, Berry was a globally famous movie star, which is why she appeared in massive big-budget blockbusters alongside some of the biggest Hollywood stars during those years, including X-Men (2000), Swordfish (2001), Monster’s Ball (2001), James Bond: Die Another Day (2002) and so on.

She Basically Created A Blueprint For Success For Young Models To Become Movie Stars

Halle Berry’s path from being a pretty beauty queen to a model to becoming a world-famous actress is essentially the blueprint to success for many popular Hollywood actresses who were at one point beauty queens/models themselves. Lots of today’s most popular Hollywood actresses are, in essence, girls born with pretty faces and modelesque physiques who started to receive lots of attention early on during their high school years. Then they decided to capitalize on this and started entering beauty pageants, which is where they got their first taste of the entertainment industry, then later on they became professional models, and eventually they started taking acting classes.

Of course, somewhere along the line there’s a leap of faith that made them ditch their college studies and go on to pursue acting or modeling full-time, and with a little luck, they’re eventually cast in a big-budget Hollywood movie that serves as their breakthrough into the industry, and its all smooth sailing and millions of dollars from there. This has been the go-to path to success for dozens of Hollywood actresses, but Halle’s case is definitely impressive considering her traumatic early childhood, plus, she did it all back in the 80s, so she’s somewhat of a pioneer for the scores of models-turned-actresses that followed in her wake. In other words, Halle Berry walked so that other younger models-turned-actresses after her like Cameron Diaz, Eva Mendes, Gal Gadot, Charlize Theron, Mila Jovovich, Olivia Munn, Eva Longoria Anya Taylor-Joy, Natalie Portman and so on could run - she basically laid out the blueprint for them.