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
She Used To Look A Lot Black When She Was Younger, Before The Plastic Surgery. She Didn’t Even Look Mixed. Now She Does Because She Got Her Nose Fixed, And Some Other Things As Well. There Are Prettier Mixed Women Than Her. She Is Overrated As Hell. It’s Stupid How She Says Her Quarter Black Daughter Is “Black”. Her Daughter Looks Hispanic Actually. She Doesn’t Look Like Halle At All.
* * She Used To Look A Lot Blacker
You know damn well her daughter doesn’t look Hispanic… you sound crazy as hell. Her daughter actually look half black and half white which is weird because Halle Berry is half white already, so her daughter should look a lot whiter than she does. Her daughter looks blacker than Mariah Carey does and she considers herself African American. I interracially date and my kids have a high chance of not physically looking black due to my creole background, but no matter how non black they look I will instill in them that their black and consider them black, bottom line. I agree with Halle Berry.
@blah, yes I agree Halles daughter looks half black and half white. Her daughter does not even look typically super mixed hispanic. And Halle’s son Maceo, still looks even blacker than her daughter. When they grow up they will likely darken even more.None of Halle’s kids look hispanic or white. To have kids with a white the children normally look whiter. Halle is right to call her kids black because thats what they visably look more like and they will be prejudged in the future. Halle is not a dumb naive person, she knows
Uuuugh so she’s swirl. She’s decent but wldntsay gorgeous, no. She gets too much dam hype! She’s old now PLUS she’s had a nose job. You can tell, look at her now then go check out boomerang, her true self Waaay before she became super famous. I can tell. It’s tweaked!
We all know that everybody in the U.S. is mixed they’re all mix with alot of things from the ancestors that have passed down to them the descendants the problem is that these laws in America that government made it splits up people into their separate category blacks, whites, mixed, mulattos, bi multi-racial, mestizos which causes problems with people thats what made alot of people so divided up from each other instead of being together as one race of humans this is the UGA plan ,they go by that motto is “Divided We Conquer” it’s their fault they created racial segregation amongs people
She looks like a beautiful Indian woman.
@princess I dont think she looks Indian. But I think she looks like she could be mixed with Indian. Google cloud Atlas when she was dressed in a sar, she did not look Indian to me. You always could tell there was African dna.
Check out this link from Cloud Atlas with Halle Berry in a Sari, she does not look fully Indian passing to me, you can tell she is part black. African. I think if she had her hair jet black it would have been more believable.
http://movies.ndtv.com/hollywood/pulled-off-wearing-sari-in-cloud-atlas-nicely-halle-berry-608210
TO WTF.
SO you been bullied. glad to know. that explains allot.
& i give a shit???? it really doesn’t explain anything, you don’t fkn know me so keep your ignorant and dumbass assumptions to yourself. i really don’t have anything to be ashamed of. i was bullied and i am not going to be embarrassed. some girls are bitches and are jealous of pretty lightskin mixed girls because we are desired by every race of men. i was always a nice person in middle school and high school, it’s just that some dark girls are intimidated by mixed girls. i had black guys, white, guys, and latino guys trying to holla at me. of course some insecure hoes are going to act like bitches and bully the lightskin girls. smh