This Day, That Year – August 14

This day in history we feature Halle Berry. Halle, the first African American actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, was born on this day in 1966..

Trivia – Halle Berry

Halle began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang, alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones and Bulworth as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996. Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster’s Ball (2001)—becoming the only African-American woman to have won the award—and took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004), the latter for which she received US$12.5 million.

Source – Wikipedia

This day in history – Halle Berry