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    Berry was born Maria Halle Berry in Cleveland, Ohio, [1] on August 14, 1966, [2] to Judith Ann (née Hawkins), an English immigrant from Liverpool, [3] and Jerome Jesse Berry, an African-American man. [1] Her name was legally changed to Halle Maria Berry at the age of five. [4]

  3. Feb 25, 2019 · Ethnicity: *fatherAfrican-American. *mother – English, some German and Irish, distant Dutch. Halle Berry is an American actress and model. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Monster’s Ball (2001). She is the only black actress to have won the Best Actress Oscar.

  4. Apr 3, 2014 · Halle Berry is an acclaimed actress and former beauty queen. For her performance in Monster's Ball in 2001, she became the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for best actress...

  5. Jan 23, 2021 · Halle Berry is the daughter of a white woman from Liverpool, England who met her African-American father while working as a psychiatric nurse at the ward where he was a hospital attendant.

  6. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant.

    • August 14, 1966
  7. Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, to Judith Ann, a psychiatric nurse, and Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. She is of mixed ancestryher mother was of English and German origin, while her father was an African American.

  8. Oct 9, 2024 · Halle Berry (born August 14, 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American film actress, the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress. She received the honour for her nuanced portrayal of Leticia Musgrove, a down-on-her-luck character in Monster’s Ball (2001).