Halle Berry
Halle Berry is an award-winning actress from Cleveland. Berry has won Emmy and Golden Globe awards and is the only woman of Aftican-American descent to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress, receiving that honor in 2001. Berry was born Maria Halle Berry in Cleveland in 1966. Berry's parents selected her middle name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark. Berry graduated from Bedford High School and worked in in the children's department of Higbee's Department store. She then studied at Cuyahoga Community College and won Miss Teen All-American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986 prior to starting her acting career. Berry has starred in
Jungle Fever, Queen, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, the
X-Men series,
Swordfish, Monster's Ball, Die Another Day, Catwoman and
Things We Lost in the Fire.