Halle Berry
Berry in 2009, photo by CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock.com
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
AHHAHA
SHE IS JUST BLACK
AND LOVES HIS HER BLACK SIDE MORE
So.
you don’t have to love either side of yourself to identify more with one over the other. to say that she loves her black side more is just riduculous. she loves herself, her black and white self. isn’t that enough?
She hates her white side. It’s so obvious.
Did she tell you that???
Prove it.
The other way around
If she hated her white side, then why did she screw a white man and have his child?????!!!
Is that new baby boy ugly or something?They never show him
She was always with her mother,so how does she hate her white side:
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She’s beautiful. Yes, I think she identifies as being “black”. Black women are usually cool. Where a white woman will profess they aren’t materialistc and shallow, the black women I know will profess they care about money and materialistic things and if a man cannot provide that then they’re out the door. In reality however I’ve found black women not nearly superficial and materialistic as they say, and are in fact “cool” and not prone to leave you over an overdue bill. So basically, ya, she has a lot of nice things and that incorporates into her personality, she’s probably a lot cooler than she would be if she was not biracial.
Stereotypes are alive and well with you. Anyway I think that women shouldn’t be looking to a man to provide for her. Women should be independent enough to stand on their own two feet and get what they want for themselves. The colour of your skin is not going to be a factor on whether you are materialistic or not.
So if only 5 percent of blacks can claim to be 100 percent black who is black that is my question keysha cole is half white yet she is considered black malcom x mom was white but slave females were used as sex toys those plantation owners or there teenage sons had no condoms back then every single black american has irish or scottish ancestry people whites go by how you act if you speak perfect english you are asked if you are mixed why is that all blacks should be taught english ebonics is fake they are trained by music and street kids to speak ebonics to fit in J COLE IS ALSO HALF WHITE BUT HE GETS TO FIT IN CAUSE HE TALKS BLACK
Don’t blame the Irish as owning slaves. The Irish of that time were discriminated against themselves. Many of the Irish were indentured servants and not land owners. There was no welcoming mat when the Irish came to the US when they were fleeing famine in Ireland.
No African American is 100% Black. Slavery took care of that one for us. Somewhere in that family tree is a White person. That’s just the way it is.
There’s a difference between some distant amount of white heritage versus being HALF white or more. If her black heritage is of slave descent, she’s likely more than half white just as I am. This makes her genetically more white and therefor white or mixed would be the more appropriate label.
so keysha cole has a white father james earl jones has blue eyes a fact beyonce mother is creole french white and indian with black 95 percent of african americans are mixed or bi racial a fact but blacks go by how you talk both my parents are black from africa i am 100 percent black i moved to America USA at 4 years old i was raised around whites and went to school with whites i speak perfect English yet i am asked am i mixed because i speak perfect English but both my parents are from Ghana in Africa blacks go by how you talk every celebrity black is mixed as are non celeb blacks most slave owners used black female slaves as sex toys there were not condoms on those plantations yet we base how black a person is by how they use words or drop or slang words and act hood yes act most rappers live like kings they been out hood for ten years or twenty years but act like they steal are thugs thugs kill thugs rape thugs are mean and violent to women thugs let there homeboys have sex with there friends women thugs former ex thugs make rap music and fill there music with hatred toward women and insults as if women are trash thugs think its funny thugs dress like clowns see lil wayne see the ice cream tatooe on guici mane face its a fact guici man had a huge tatoo inked on his face