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
But she always gonna be consider a African American women and that mean doesn’t exudes or “X” outs her white side it just what the media always gonna say
I wish everyone wasn’t so hung up on race. Helle Berry is a beautiful woman with mixed ancestry. Of course she is African American but she is also German, Irish and English. All those ancestries contributed to make her what she is. She wouldn’t be what she is without all her ethnicities.
I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE MEANT WHEN AHE DIDN’T FEEL OR LOOK WHITE ENOUGH SO DOES THAT MEAN SHE FEEL AND LOOK BLACK?!
Meaning she didn’t feel accepted by the white community surrounding her nor did she look like the people surrounding her (who happened to be white). If you check her back story she lived in a predominantly white area and went to predominantly white schools. Her and her sister were constantly teased about being “black”. I don’t understand what’s not to “get” about that….
She said that when she was younger she would dream about finding a pill that would make her skin lighter saying that if she changed her life would be better. Seems to me she is more proud of her euro heritage.
And she most definitively had a nose job.
Her nose looks the way it does because of her white ancestry.
lmao. your comments are unbelieveable. because she has a more caucasion nose that means she had it done? b/c her skin isn’t dark that means she bleached it? Really? Really? ignorance amazes me! smh
no she did have work done to look more “acceptable” she had a nose job to look more mix, the skin thing she didn’t do. her sister looks more biracial to be honest with straight hair and lighter skin. halle berry may be bat crazy in the head and vindictive but she does look pretty in makeup.
she really did have work down check out this pic of her back in the day.
http://ohverlycritical.com/news/2011/08/happy-45th-birthday-halle-berry/
look at her now
http://www.eonline.com/news/178917/five-things-to-know-about-halle-berry-and-ex-boyfriend-gabriel-aubry
A very beautiful woman either way but to say she didn’t have any work done at all is a large stretch.
She is naturally beautiful.