Hally barry biography

Actress Halle Berry is best-known for her roles in movies Die Another Day, X-Men and Monster's Ball, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar in

The year-old star has had a tough road during her rise in Hollywood, breaking racial barriers while overcoming personal heartache.

Read her story below…

Halle Berry's early life

Halle Berry was born on August 14, , in Cleveland, Ohio, to an African-American father, Jerome Berry, and a white mother, Judith.

Halle's parents divorced when she was four, and her mum, a psychiatric nurse from Liverpool, raised her alone.

As a mixed-race teenager growing up in a predominantly white secondary school, Halle says she was painfully insecure.

"It was sickening how much I craved being liked," she recalls.

"I was Miss Everything – cheerleader, student senator, on the newspaper, the honour roll, you name it."

By the time she was 18, she held real-life "Mi