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As of December 2006, Halle is the highest paid African American actress in Hollywood.
Halle is Mulatto. Her father is African American and her mother is Caucasian. She is estranged from her sister Heidi.
Halle was placed on three year’s probation and ordered to pay $13,500 in fines and penalties after pleading no contest on May 10, 2000 to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of a traffic accident. The judge also ordered the actress to perform 200 hours of community service.
Halle portrayed Dorothy Dandridge in the film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge in 1999. Dorothy Dandridge was the first African- American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and coincidentally Halle Berry is the first to have won in that category.
In 1994, Halle turned down the role of Annie in Speed. In 2003 she turned down the female lead in box office disaster Gigli.
Halle was named after the grand old Halle Building in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store. The building is now an office building and was the fictional setting for the Winfred-Louder department store on The Drew Carey Show.
Halle’s dress for the 2002 Oscars ceremony was voted the most popular outfit from the first 75 years.
Halle’s injuries
- Halle lost some hearing in one of her ears due to a physical encounter with a boyfriend in the early 1990s.
- On April 10, 2002, Halle received an injury on the set of Die Another Day, while on location in Cadiz, Spain. She was shooting an action sequence at the time, which involved Pierce Brosnan firing on a helicopter being flown by Rick Yune.
- In May 2003, her broke her arm while filming Gothika.
- In 2004, Halle smashed her head into set lights on the set of Catwoman but wasn’t seriously injured.
Halle’s first $1 million salary for a film was for Executive Decision in 1996. She originally refused the part …. until she was offered $1 million.
Halle was named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” in People Magazine in 2004. 2004 was the eighth time Halle had appeared on the list, tying with Julia Roberts for the most appearances.
help herself learn about cats. However, she renamed the cat Playdough, because Playto was too serious a name for her.
Halle’s favourite actresses are Dorothy Dandridge, Jodie Foster and Whoopi Goldberg.
Halle was named Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s “2006 Woman of the Year”.
Halle won a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and an Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role in Monster’s Ball.
In March 2007, Halle admitted she had attempted suicide after the end of her relationship with David Justice, a baseball player with the Atlanta Braves.
On April 4th, 2007, Halle was immortalised on Hollywood’s ‘Walk of Fame‘. Her star is the 2333rd to be laid on the ‘Walk of Fame’. She was initially due to receive her star in 2003 but conflicting schedules prevented her from receiving it until 2007.
In October 2007 it was revealed that Halle had received racist death threats to her unborn baby. Halle hired security guards after she received several anonymous threatening letters. One note warned she and her child would be “cut into hundreds of pieces”.
Halle was named ‘Miss Teen All American’ in 1985, and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She was also the first runner up in the 2004 Miss USA pageant.
In March 2007, Halle began dating Gabriel Aubry, a model, after meeting him in November 2005 at a Versace shoot. In May 2008, Halle wore a diamond ring on her engagement finger at the Revlon Walk/Run for Women event, sparking rumors Gabriel had proposed.
For her role in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Halle won a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Halle and Gabriel Aubry welcomed their first child into the world in 2008. The couple named her Nahla Ariela.