Halle Berry Overview

Halle Berry was born to a white mother and an African-American father. Her father left them when she was four and Berry was brought up by her mother, Judith, a psychiatric nurse, in Cleveland, Ohio. During her senior year in high school, Halle was voted prom queen but was accused of stuffing the ballot box and, as she says, was forced to share her title with a "white, blonde, blue-eyed, all American girl." A former beauty queen, Halle was crowned Miss World USA in 1986, was a contestant in the... See All