Halle Berry
Birth Name: Maria Halle Berry
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 14, 1966
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American
*mother – English, some German and Irish, distant Dutch
Halle Berry is an American actress and model. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Monster’s Ball (2001). She is the only black actress to have won the Best Actress Oscar. Her roles also include The Last Boy Scout, The Flinstones, Executive Decision, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, X-Men, Swordfish, Die Another Day, Gothika, Things We Lost in the Fire, The Call, Kidnap, Kings, and Bruised, among others.
Halle’s father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was African-American. Halle’s mother, Judith Ann (Hawkins), is white, of English, some German and Irish, and distant Dutch, descent. She has two children, a daughter, with her former partner, Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, and a son, with her former husband, French actor Olivier Martinez.
Of her upbringing, Halle has said:
I was raised by my white mother and every day of my life I have always been aware of the fact that I am biracial. However, growing up I was aware that even though my mother was white, I did not look or feel very white myself.
Halle’s paternal grandfather was named Robert Berry.
Halle’s paternal grandmother was Cora Lee Powell (the daughter of Adam Powell and Charity Munford/Moffett). Cora was born in Greenwood, Leflore, Mississippi. Adam was the son of Tom Powell and Easter.
Halle’s maternal grandfather was Earl Ellsworth Hawkins (the son of Eugene Allen Hawkins and Bessie C. Spaulding). Earl was born in Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Eugene was the son of John William Hawkins, who was born in Vermont, and of Katherine/Catherina “Katie” Drescher, who was born in Bavaria, Germany. Bessie was the daughter of Ellsworth Warren Spaulding, who was of approximately three quarters Colonial American (English), and one quarter Irish, descent; and of Agnes L. “Aggie” Johnson, whose father was English. Through her maternal grandfather, Halle has American-born ancestors going back to the 1600s.
Halle’s maternal grandmother was Nellie Dicken (the daughter of Henry Dicken and Ada B. White). Nellie was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, to a father from Chesterfield and a mother from Spondon. Henry was the son of Robert Dicken and Ann Marsden. Ada was the daughter of John White and Maria.
Sources: Genealogies of Halle Berry – http://www.wargs.com
http://www.wikitree.com
http://famouskin.com
Halle’s paternal grandmother, Cora Lee Powell, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Cora Lee Powell on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Halle’s paternal grandmother, Cora Lee (Powell) Berry – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Halle Berry (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Halle’s mother on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Hey ethnic, Halle Berry doesn’t have any Russian in her… it says Prussia, but Prussia is in Germany…
Thanks Vacha
But (on wargs) below, where “EXTRACTS from the U.S. FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS”, write: 1920 – Ohio, Lorain Co., Russia, ED 59, sheet 11B, line 65 and 1910 – Ohio, Lorain Co., Russia, ED 134, sheet 5A, line 39
halle berry is so prettieeeeeeeeee<333333
hottest girl
Wow she has all these cool nationalities in her! “German, Irish, Russian, English” But chooses not to own them because of some racist 1 drop rule applied ages ago by slave masters. Wow that’s just a waste of a perfectly good blend right there. Shes totally crazy I’d love to be biracial it’s really unique she obviously has a lot of self hate with her that’s why she does everything she can to denigrate her white side!
@Jasmine
Do you know Halle?Because your speaking as if you know how she thinks.It could be that’s way she was raised to see her self.You say self hate,well lets see.First she has told everyone that she is biracial.She is forever with her white mother.She had a baby with a white man.Well I’ll be darn,she is self hating(yes sarcasm).I agree with (Kelsey) you do need to get a grip,your just as judgemental as everyone else on this site
that’s the way
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@Jas
Wait your doing the exact same thing your accusing everyone else of.Your condemning a woman you don’t know,for not acting the way you think she should.
@jasmine
if i’m not mistaken,halle said a long time ago she learned this truth,when she walk into a room,people didn’t see a white girl,they saw a black one.It has nothing to do with any odr for her.She loves her mother,and she does not deny her mother,so your wrong about her self-hate.
but actually she’s claiming her daughter as black too, when she’s just 1/4 black.
halle is 1/2 black, so why call you black if you are just mixed! at european countries they don’t have so many problems with that thing called race.
you’re mixed, wow, you’re beautiful!
Betsy I´m glad you commented on this! Now, I´m not going to say that Halle is self hating because I don´t know her; but I will admit that something´s going on in her head to force her daugher who is 3/4 white ¨black,¨completely skipping over the ¨mixed ¨category. America is just SO mixed up now, people have to get over it and accept each one´s multi-ethnic make up.
I never saw a mix in her like in her early roles she just looked like a very pretty black female but most black are mixed with something just like most of the world