Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty
queen. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image
Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for
Best Actress and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her
performance in Monster’s Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2011, only
woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best
Actress.
In the late 1980s, Berry went to Illinois to pursue a modeling career as well as acting. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called Chicago Force. In 1989, Berry landed the role of Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls during the taping of which she lapsed into a coma and was diagnosed with diabetes.
As Bond girl Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson in the 2002 blockbuster Die Another Day, Berry recreated a scene from Dr. No, emerging from the surf to be greeted by James Bond as Ursula Andress had 40 years earlier. Lindy Hemming, costume designer on “Die Another Day”, had insisted that Berry wear a bikini and knife as an homage. Berry has said of the scene: “It’s splashy”, “exciting”, “sexy”, “provocative” and “it will keep me still out there after winning an Oscar.Click on an image to see it full size.
In the late 1980s, Berry went to Illinois to pursue a modeling career as well as acting. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called Chicago Force. In 1989, Berry landed the role of Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls during the taping of which she lapsed into a coma and was diagnosed with diabetes.
As Bond girl Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson in the 2002 blockbuster Die Another Day, Berry recreated a scene from Dr. No, emerging from the surf to be greeted by James Bond as Ursula Andress had 40 years earlier. Lindy Hemming, costume designer on “Die Another Day”, had insisted that Berry wear a bikini and knife as an homage. Berry has said of the scene: “It’s splashy”, “exciting”, “sexy”, “provocative” and “it will keep me still out there after winning an Oscar.Click on an image to see it full size.
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