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Halle Berry: Academy Award
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Halle Berry is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning $14 million each for Gothika and Catwoman. In April 2007, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in July 2007, she topped In Touch magazine's list of the world's Most Fabulous 40-Something Celebrities.
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When Halle Berry came backstage after winning her best actress Oscar on Sunday night, even the press gave her a standing ovation for her historic victory as the first black female actor to win the award. "Will it change the industry?" she said.
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Despite her claims to the contrary, Halle Berry did not cure herself of Type 1 diabetes, doctors told ABC NEWS.com, for one simple reason -- Type 1 diabetes is incurable. Story "I've managed to wean myself off insulin, so now I'd like to put myself in the Type 2 category," the Web site contactmusic.com quotes the Academy
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In addition to becoming one of Hollywood's best known African American actresses, Berry returned to modeling when she signed with Revlon Cosmetics. She ... signed on for many more movie appearances. Berry was a huge hit in the 1999 HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. The film told the life story of Dandridge, a promising young nightclub singer-turned-actress who faced racial prejudice during the 1950s as she tried to become a star. Dandridge was the first black sex symbol of the big screen and the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination, though she never achieved star status because of her skin color. Berry, herself, was eager to play the role and counts Dandridge among her idols.
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Academy Award-winner Berry and model Aubry, 32, have been dating since 2005. Berry has spoken openly in the past about being ready for children. She has been married twice, to baseball player David Justice and musician Eric Benet.
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Playing Dandridge pushed Berry to new heights as an actress and she impressed director Martha Coolidge, who told Jet, "There couldn't be a better person Â… to portray Dorothy Dandridge. She is beautiful in the same way. She ... has an incredible sensitivity. She is absolutely driven in the same way and, even today, feels the same outrage at limitations placed on her that Dorothy felt in her day." Berry won several awards for her role, including a Golden Globe for best performance by an actress in a miniseries or made-for-TV motion picture.
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