Halle Berry Net Worth

Halle Berry's Quotes

• On Dorothy Dandridge: ...You have to find a way to be sad on every day, in every scene, in every moment. And always try to hide the sadness. And (then) you'll get the essence of who she was.
• During her Oscar acceptance speech: This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It's for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox... and it's for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because the door tonight has been opened.
• On choosing both serious and popcorn-movie roles: There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it's those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous.
• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
• I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Interesting Facts about Halle Berry

1. She was placed on three years 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 and to make restitution as determined by the outcome of civil litigation arising from the February accident when she was driving a rented Chevrolet Blazer and ran a red light and crashed into another car on Sunset Boulevard. She left the scene of the accident before authorities arrived, suffered a gash to her head that required 20 stitches to close, and the woman (Hetal Raythatha) driving the other vehicle broke her wrist. Halle reported the accident to a police officer at the hospital where she sought treatment.
2. Is type 1 diabetic.
3. Her parents, Judith Ann Hawkins and Jerome Jesse Berry, divorced when she was 4 years old. She was then raised by her mother. When researching for her role of Dorothy Dandridge, she discovered that she and Dorothy were both born in the same Cleveland, Ohio hospital.
4. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1998).
5. Miss USA; first runner-up to Christy Fichtner, who was on the first season of Who Wants to Marry My Dad? (2003) (1986).
6. Miss Teen All American (1985) and Miss Ohio USA (1986).
7. Attended Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.
8. Turned down the role of Annie Porter in Speed (1994), which went to Sandra Bullock.
9. Is 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 the fictional setting for the Winfred-Louder department store on The Drew Carey Show (1995).
10. In high school, was an honor society member, editor of the school paper, and class president. Was also crowned prom queen.
11. Lost some hearing in one of her ears due to a physical encounter with a boyfriend in the early 1990s.
12. Attended Heskett Middle School in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
13. Is the first (and as of 2019 the only) woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
14. Has 2 sisters: Renee Berry (born 1959) from her dad's first marriage & Heidi Berry (born 1964) from the same parents.
15. (April 10, 2002) She received an injury on the set of Die Another Day (2002). Halle was injured on location in Cadiz, Spain while shooting an action sequence that involved Pierce Brosnan firing on a helicopter being flown by Rick Yune.
16. Has portrayed Dorothy Dandridge in the television film Face of an Angel (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.
17. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002).
18. Attended and graduated from Bedford High School in Bedford, Ohio.
19. Is the first black American in the Miss World Competition. She did not win a prize but her dress did.
20. Is the second "Bond girl" to win an Academy Award. The first was Kim Basinger.