First African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Marc Forster’s Monster’s Ball (2002), Halle Berry alternates between blockbusters and independent productions. Noted for her performance as Dorothy Dandridge (1999) which earned her a Golden Globe, she became the same year Storm in Bryan Singer’s X-Men. Her many roles include Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991), Swordfish (2002), Die Another Day (2003), Gothika by Mathieu Kassovitz (2003), Frankie & Alice by Geoffrey Sax (2011), Cloud Atlas by the Wachowski sisters (2012), Kingsman: The Golden Circle by Matthew Vaughn (2017), John Wick Parabellum by Chad Stahelski (2019). In 2020, she directed her first film, Bruised. Also a producer, she co-produces some of the films she stars in, most recently Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go (2024).
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