Halle Berry

Actress, Director

United States

The first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Marc Forster’ s In the Shadow of Hatred( 2002), Halle Berry alternates roles between blockbusters and independent productions. Noted for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge( 1999), which earned her a Golden Globe, she became Storm in Bryan Singer’ s X-Men that same year. Her roles include Spike Lee’ s Jungle Fever( 1991), Swordfish( 2002), Die Another Day( 2003), Mathieu Kassovitz’ s Gothika( 2003), Geoffrey Sax’ s Frankie & Alice( 2011), the Wachowski sisters’ Cloud Atlas( 2012), Matthew Vaughn’ s Kingsman: The Golden Circle( 2017), and Chad Stahelski’ s John Wick: Parabellum( 2019). In 2020, she directed her first film, Murdered. Also a producer, she co-produces some of the films in which she acts, including recently Mother Land by Alexandre Aja( 2024).