Golden Globe
Award winner Halle Berry starred in and executive produced
HBO’s acclaimed film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for
which she received the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild
(SAG) Award, and three NAACP Image Awards, including Entertainer
of the Year. Prior to that, she starred opposite Warren Beatty
in Twentieth Century Fox’s political comedy Bulworth
(1998), and in the Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall
In Love? (1998)
Berry’s other feature
film credits include her film debut opposite Samuel L Jackson
in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991); Stephen Gyllenhaal’s
Losing Isaiah (1995), opposite Jessica Lange; Stuart Baird’s
Executive Decision (1996), for which she won the Blockbuster
Award® for Best Actress in an Action Drama; Brian Levant’s
international hit live-action version of The Flintstones,
and Reginald Hudlin’s Boomerang, with Eddie Murphy.
For television, Berry starred
in the miniseries Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding; Showtime’s
original telefilm Solomon and Sheba, opposite Jimmy Smits;
and in the title role in Alex Haley’s miniseries Queen,
which became the highest-rated sequel in television history.
Berry’s performance earned her the NAACP Image Award
for Best Actress, as well as the Best Newcomer Award from
the Hollywood Women’s Press Club.
In 1998, in honor of her achievements
as an actress, the Harvard Foundation at Harvard University
honored her as Cultural Artist of the Year.
Berry, who was the first runner-up
in the 1986 Miss USA pageant and was recently named one of
the People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the
World, continues her work as an international spokesperson
for Revlon.
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