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Favorite Actors: Dorothy Dandridge, Jodie Foster and Whoopi Goldberg

Favorite Indulgence: Butter pecan ice cream

Favorite Cosmetics: Revlon

Favorite Designer: Versace, and Valentino

Favorite Books: "In the Meantime" by Iyanla Vanzant

"Being Happy" by Andrew Mathews

"Caucasia" by Danzy Seuna

"Some Soul to Keep" by J. California Cooper

"In the Company of My Sisters" by Julia A. Boyd

"New Art of Dog Training" by Shelby Marlo

"The Heart of a Woman" by Maya Angelou

"Congo" by Michael Crichton

"A Woman's Worth" by Marianne Williamson

"Graces, Prayers, and Poems" by Jane Cotner

Favorite Holiday: Christmas

Favorite Place to Travel: Paris

Favorite Food: Grilled tuna and garlic mashed potatoes

Salt and Vinegar chips

Favorite Musicians: Norah Jones

D'Angelo

Angie Stone

Tina Turner

Carl Thomas

Mary Mary

Heather Headly

Michelle Williams

DMX

Britney Spears

Enya

● One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 8 times tying with Julia Roberts

● Miss USA; first runner-up to Christy Fichtner who was on the first season of "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?". [1986]

● Miss Ohio USA [1986]

● Miss Teen All American [1985]

● Attended Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio.

● Turned down the role of Annie in Speed

● Is named after the grand old Halle Building in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store.

● In high school, was an honor society member, editor of the school paper, and class president. Was also crowned prom queen.

● Born at 9:03 p.m EST

● Attended Heskett Middle School in Bedford, Ohio.

● Is the second "Bond Girl" to win an Oscar. The first was Kim Basinger (Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential

● First African American actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress.

● Portrayed Dorothy Dandridge in the made for television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. 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.

● As a young aspiring actress Halle Berry was the leading lady in R. Kelly and Public Announcement's 1991 video hit Honey Love, where they re-enacted a scene from 9 1/2 Weeks

● Graduate of Bedford High School, Bedford, Ohio

● First black American in the Miss World Competition. She didn't win a prize but her dress did.

● Her dress for the 2002 Oscars ceremony was voted the most popular from the first 75 years.
● Starred in three movies with Hugh Jackman: X-Men (2000); Swordfish (2001) and X2 (2003).

● Broke her arm on the set of Gothika while filming in Montreal.

● The first actress to star & portray two different comic book characters for two different comic book companies Storm for Marvel's X-Men & Catwoman for D.C Comics's Catwoman

● She is currently the highest paid black actress in Hollywood. [2004]

● Played a character called "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones movie - ten years later she appeared with the real Sharon Stone in Catwoman

● Turned down the female lead in Gigli

● Smashed her head into set lights on the set of Catwoman

● Adopted a cat (that was originally an extra for Catwoman (2004)) named Playto, to help herself learn about cats. However, she renamed the cat Playdough, because Playto was too serious a name for her