Halle Berry

Biography

This former teenage beauty queen traded a successful modeling career for an acting career in the late 1980s. Click for a Halle Berry nude gallery. She got her first break starring, appropriately enough, as a teenage model on the 1989 ABC TV series, "Living Dolls" but it was her harrowing performance as a crack addict in her first feature, Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" (1991) that proved she was not just another model-turned-actress.

That same year, Berry landed her first starring roles: as a femme fatale in the romantic comedy "Strictly Business" and as Damon Wayans' stripper girlfriend in "The Last Boy Scout". She went on to play a young professional woman hopelessly in love with Eddie Murphy in Reginald Hudlin's "Boomerang" (1992).

Berry furthered displayed her versatility as a dedicated journalist trailing Patrick Swayze in the family road movie "Father Hood" (1993), a sexy secretary in "The Flintstones" (1994), and a former drug addict attempting to reclaim her child in "Losing Isaiah" (1995).

While she has also appeared in run-of-the-mill features (e.g., "Executive Decision" 1996), Berry has generally created three dimensional protrayals. After a cameo in Spike Lee's disappointing "Girl 6" (1996), sexy Halle broke the color barrier and landed a role as the unhappy wife of Christopher MacDonald who finds herself framed for his murder in "The Rich Man's Wife" (also 1996). Berry fared very well in her role as an intelligent woman raised by activists who gives an older politician (Warren Beatty) a new lease on life in "Bulworth" and as the singer Zola Taylor, one of the three wives of pop singer Frankie Lymon in the biopic "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" (both 1998). Halle also realized a life-long dream when she starred in and co-produced the HBO biopic "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" (1999). The following year, she took sci-fi fans by storm playing a beautiful mutant in Bryan Singer's big-screen version of the Marvel comic "X-Men".

In 2001, Berry courted controversy for a brief, gratuitous naked scene of her topless in the otherwise middling thriller "Swordfish". Her subsequent role as a down-on-her-luck Southern waitress who finds an unlikely romance in "Monster's Ball", however, provided her with a breakthrough. Eschewing glamour, Berry captured the heartbreak and neediness of this woman battered by fate and her searing performance caused many to stop and reevaluate their opinion of her. She gained newfound clout thanks to a deserved Academy Award as Best Actress for that turn.

Berry next assumed the role of Bond girl in the 20th film in the franchise, "Die Another Day" (2002) before reprising Storm in "X2" (2003), the highly anticipated sequel to "X-Men".

Pics

Nude pictures:
Swordfish (2001)

Naked movies:
Monster's Ball (2001)