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Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and is biracial, with a white English-born mother, Judith Ann Hawkins, and a black American father, Jerome Berry. Halle first came into the spotlight at 17 years old when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant in 1985. It eventually led to her first weekly TV series, 1989`s "Living Dolls" (1989). Her Big Screen breakthrough was in Jungle Fever (1991). The following year she played as an actress `Dorothy Dandridge` in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2000, she received Box office success in X-Men (2000) and again in the more successful X2: X-Men United (2003). She won the best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster`s Ball, becoming the first African American woman to win this award. Halle has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1992 - 1996 to baseball player David Justice. Her second marriage in 2001 - 2003 to musician Eric Ben, leaving her to her step-daughter India whom she legally adopted. She has diabetes and is deaf in one Ear.