She is the first African-American actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress entered film history. But even before her acting career, she was a pioneer. She was also the first African American to take part in the Miss World beauty pageant. Do you know who that means?
Of course it’s about Halle Berry. Berry won the Oscar for Monster’s Ball and outside of that she was able to have an impressive career in film. After abandoning her journalism studies, she received hers first role in a television series.
Living Dolls gave Halle Berry access to the Hollywood film world
Living Dolls marks the beginning of Berry’s acting career. However, the series itself was not a huge success and only had a single season. The sitcom was about a spin-off of the well-known series Who’s the Boss?.
In Living Dolls, Charlie Briscoe (King of Queens star Leah Remini) discovers her talent as a model and is part of a group of teenage models working for the same agency. One of them is Emily Franklin, played by Halle Berry.
One day on the set of the series, Halle Berry collapsed. According to an article in the Ärzte Zeitung from 2005, she was in a coma for 7 days. After she came to, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Despite the challenges that the illness still poses, her career has taken off since then.
Shortly thereafter, Halle Berry landed a role in the long-running series Under the California Sun, which ran from 1979 to 1993. She then made her film debut alongside Wesley Snipes in the drama Jungle Fever.
10 years later she was world famous thanks to the X-Men films and won her Oscar for Best Actress for Monster’s Ball. She made her directorial debut with Bruised in 2020 and received positive reviews.