Halle Berry

Non-Public Biography Node
Birthday: August 8, 1966
Age: 45
Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Big Break: Role in Desperado
Biography
Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Judith Ann and Jerome Jesse Berry. Due to her parents divorce, Berry was mainly raised by her mother and was estranged from her father from a young age. She entered many beauty contests in the 1980’s and eventually won the Miss Teen All-American and Miss Ohio USA.

In the late 1980’s, Berry went to Chicago to pursue a modeling and acting career. Her role in 2001’s film Monster’s Ball awarded her the National Board of Review and the Screen Actors Guild prizes. Berry also made history by becoming the first African-American woman to receive a Best Actress Academy Award. On April 3, 2007, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She is currently dating French-Canadian supermodel Gabriel Aubry. He is ten years her junior. Berry confirmed in 2007 that she was pregnant with Aubry’s child. She gave birth on March 16, 2008 in Los Angeles. They named their baby girl Nahla Ariela Aubry.

Did you know...

  • 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".
  • On March 2007, Halle admitted she had attempted suicide after the end of her relationship with David Justice, a baseball player with the Atlanta Braves.
  • Halle is a big fan of Britney Spears.
  • Halle won a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role in Monster's Ball.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • She is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman.
  • Halle was listed as a potential nominee on the 2004 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Actress category for her performance in the film Gothika. She failed to receive a nomination however. The very next year though (2004), she got a nomination for Worst Actress in the film Catwoman.
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Halle Berry made her first red carpet appearance since her engagement to French actor Olivier Martinez at the 2012 Jenesse Center Silver Rose Gala this past Saturday and confirmed she is indeed engaged.

"Who knew? I swore it off, right?” Berry told Extra about her new engagement at the event. “Never say never, people!"

Of course, the statement comes after several previous statements Berry made, swearing off marriage altogether.
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Selena Gomez was the big winner last night at the 2012 Kids Choice Awards.

Selena, who was rocking a Dolce & Gabbana look very similar to Katy Perry’s took home 2 awards, one for Favorite TV Actress for the now defunct ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ and a second gong for Favorite Female Singer at the ceremony in which over 220 million votes were cast.

She said: "After no longer doing my show, knowing you guys still watch it means so much."
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Gabriel Aubry—Halle Berry’s baby daddy and former flame—is reportedly being grilled in court by her lawyer, Stephen Kolodny.

As previously reported, Halle planned to move to Paris with Nahla, her daughter with Gabriel. Why? Because she’s engaged to French native, actor Olivier Martinez, that’s why. If you could move to France with a hot French dude, wouldn’t you?
So, everyone’s been wondering if Olivier Martinez and Halle Berry were actually engaged. Halle wore an emerald ring that was, and then wasn’t an engagement ring.

Halle also famously said she would never get married again, and since the couple (or their publicists) never confirmed they were engaged we were kind of out in nowhere land trying to figure out their relationship status!

“C’mon make it facebook official,” was our collective cry.
First they were, then maybe they weren’t, but now it looks like Olivier Martinez and Halle Berry officially are engaged.

Hollyscoop talked to Halle Berry’s handsome French fiancé at the South of France meets South Beach at Villa Azur Restaurant & Lounge.
Have you been following the Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry child-custody case? No, right? Because there are far more important things to worry about, such as how many people Miley Cyrus is offending on twitter and is Jessica Simpson really pregnant with the octobabies? You know, serious stuff like that.

But if you are following the Gabriel Aubry child endangerment case close enough, rest assured that all charges have been dropped against him.
A week after escaping a mental hospital, Robert Dewey Hoskins has been captured.

Hoskins was imprisoned years ago for threatening and stalking the Queen of Pop, Madonna, saying that if she wouldn’t marry him, he would slit her throat from ear to ear (quite the charmer). Somehow, he walked out of the mental hospital without being noticed just a week ago.

Los Angeles police were searching for him, describing him as “highly psychotic.”
Between her ongoing custody battle with Gabriel Aubry and fighting off psychotic runaway stalkers, Halle Berry has had one heck of a week! Seriously, it’s been a terrible week for her.

Aubry is reportedly due to appear in Dependency Court because authorities are worried about his ability to safely care for his child.

According to TMZ, Aubry is in court right now and his appearance was spurred by an investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services’.
Hello, France!

Yesterday it was reported that Halle Berry was planning to ask her custody judge for permission to move to France with Nahla. While originally speculated that the move was a punitive one toward her baby daddy Gabriel Aubry, turns out, nope, she just doesn’t want to die.

Robert Hoskins, a "violent and psychotic" man convicted of stalking both Halle and Madonna, has escaped from a psychiatric unit near Los Angeles.

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