Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She 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 (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998), as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and the first woman of color. Berry 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).
A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012), and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. Berry launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed, such as the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). She appeared in the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2019) and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised (2020).
Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996. She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez. She has two children, one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry.
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2025 Maude v Maude Producer
2025 The Mothership as Sara Morse Executive Producer
2025 The Process as Kirsa Producer
2025 Wick Is Pain as Self
2025 An Oprah Winfrey Special: The Menopause Revolution as Self
2024 Never Let Go as Momma Executive Producer
2024 The Union as Roxanne Hall
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2023 Hollywood's Hard Hitters: Women in Action as Self
2022 Thug Rose: Mixed Martial Artist as Self
2022 Power of Women: The Changemakers as Self
2022 Sidney as Self
2022 Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act as Self (archive footage)
2022 Moonfall as Jocinda Fowler
2022 Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising as Self
2021 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
2021 Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale as Self
2020 Bruised as Jackie Justice Director, Producer
2019 Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self / Storm (archive footage)
2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Sofia
2017 Kings as Millie Dunbar
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Ginger
2017 Kidnap as Karla Dyson Producer
2016 Kevin Hart: What Now? as Money Berry
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past as Storm
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 The Call as Jordan Turner
2013 Movie 43 as Emily (segment "Truth or Dare")
2012 Cloud Atlas as Native Woman / Jocasta Ayrs / Luisa Rey / Indian Party Guest / Ovid / Meronym
2012 Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You as Self
2012 Dark Tide as Kate Mathieson
2011 New Year's Eve as Nurse Aimee
2010 Frankie & Alice as Frankie Producer
2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots as Host
2007 Things We Lost in the Fire as Audrey Burke
2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
2007 Perfect Stranger as Rowena Price
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand as Ororo Munroe / Storm
2005 Robots as Cappy (voice)
2005 Their Eyes Were Watching God as Janie Starks
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2005 Lackawanna Blues Executive Producer
2005 The Many Faces of Catwoman as Self
2004 Catwoman as Patience Phillips / Catwoman
2004 John Travolta: The Inside Story as Self
2003 The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
2003 Gothika as Miranda Grey
2003 Christmas in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2003 Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2003 The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
2003 X2 as Ororo Munroe / Storm
2003 X-Men: Premieres Around the World as Self
2003 Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2002 Die Another Day: From Script to Screen as Self
2002 Die Another Day as Jinx
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever as Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, 'Die Another Day' (archive footage)
2002 Shaken and Stirred on Ice as Self
2001 Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Storm (archive footage)
2001 The Concert for New York City as Self
2001 America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001 Swordfish as Ginger
2001 Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Halle Berry
2000 X-Men as Storm
2000 X-Men: The Mutant Watch as Self - 'Storm'
1999 Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Dorothy Dandridge Executive Producer
1998 Why Do Fools Fall In Love as Zola Taylor
1998 Bulworth as Nina
1998 Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years as Self
1998 The Wedding as Shelby Coles
1997 B.A.P.S as Nisi
1996 The Rich Man's Wife as Josie Potenza
1996 Girl 6 as Herself
1996 Race the Sun as Miss Sandra Beecher
1996 Executive Decision as Jean
1995 Losing Isaiah as Khaila Richards
1995 Solomon & Sheba as Nikhaule / Queen Sheba
1994 The Flintstones as Sharron Stone
1993 The Program as Autumn Haley
1993 Father Hood as Kathleen Mercer
1993 CB4 as Self
1992 Boomerang as Angela Lewis
1991 The Last Boy Scout as Cory
1991 Strictly Business as Natalie
1991 Jungle Fever as Vivian