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Things We Lost In The...
Halle as
Audrey Burke
Dir:
Susanne Bier
Status: Available on
DVD
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A recent
widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live
with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his
life around, he helps the family cope and confront their
loss.
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Tulia
(2009)
Halle as Vanita
Gupta
Dir:
John Singleton
Status:
Announced |
In Tulia,
Texas, an attorney works on behalf of a group of local
black men who are wrongly convicted of their involvement
in a drug ring
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Class Act (2009)
Halle as
Tierney Cahill
Dir: Doug Atchison
Status:
Announced |
A Nevada school teacher enlists the help of her
sixth-grade students in her congressional campaign.
Based on a true story of Tierney Cahill.
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Frankie and Alice (2009)
Halle as
N/A
Dir: N/A
Status:
Announced |
A drama centered on a young woman with multiple
personality disorder who struggles to remain her true
self and not give in to her racist alter-personality
Rumoured:
+ Who is Doris
Payne
+ Nappily
Every After
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Information > Trivia
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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
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