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Halle Berry!!! Halle Berry!!! When you have a song after you, you know you are big time. Oh, Halle Berry, how do I love thee. Starting off as a model, Berry entered beauty contests while finishing the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. Homegirl would breakout in movies in the films like Boomerang and the Flintstones. She would establish herself as a superstar with her turn as an abusive mother in Monster’s Ball, to jumping out of the ocean as a spy in a Bond flick to playing Storm in the X-Men. Berry has had a fantastic career and has a smile that warms anyone heart.
Leticia Musgrove- Monster’s Ball (2001)
You know I had to start this off with Halle’s Academy Award win. She was absolutely GREAT in this film. A role that defined her acting skills and showed how much of an accomplished actress she is. Berry’s role as Leticia is one that MUST be applauded. Berry plays Leticia in almost two ways. First, she is a very complicated and bad parent. She absolutely loves her son Tyrell dearly, but she does go off the deep end by drinking a little bit too much and abusing her son with violent assaults and can be heard calling him a “fat little piggy”. Berry builds Leticia character as a woman who sees herself as a loser. Her world is crumbling around her, and she is just looking for a way out along with some comfort.
Ororo Munroe/Storm- X-Men film series
Growing up, I watched the X-Men: The Animated Series. That used to be my show! Some of the themes went over my head but I watched every episode. When X-Men the live action film came out, Halle Berry was casted as Storm. She was a GREAT choice. As always, Berry was confident, and she let them lightning bolts fly. Now the comment about what happens to a toad was cringy but besides that, I love Berry as the weather queen.
Miranda Grey- Gothika (2003)
In a role where Berry stars as a psychiatrist. One night almost hits a girl on a road and suddenly wakes up to find herself an inmate of the women’s ward. She comes to find out that her husband was brutally murdered. Berry is frantic and intense in this role as she is playing Akon’s “Locked Up.” The movie is pretty good but Berry makes the most of it and is the only reason its decent.
Ginger Knowles- Swordfish (2001)
Oh, Swordfish, the movie that is a heist film with big explosions and a meh plot. Let’s be real here, this is the film where Berry showed up nude for the very first time. It was one of the top reasons why I went to go see it. Berry played Ginger who recruited Jackman’s character and then it went haywire from there. Yet, once again we got to see Berry nude and she was oh so FINE!! Most BEAUTIFUL woman in the WORLD. Honestly, her being nude is the reason many other men went to watch this movie. You get a good thirty seconds. So, make sure you pause the movie.
Miss Sharon Stone- The Flintstones (1994)
Let’s take it way back to the year 1994 when The Flintstones came out. Not the cartoon but a live action movie. The movie was like the TV show in some ways. Berry was a baby face actress who played the seductive and beautiful Miss Sharon Stone. I read that the beautiful actress Sharon Stone was offered this role as it is her name but turned it down. No matter, seeing Berry get a start to her career is nice to see. Berry still is as beautiful now as she was back then in the town of Bedrock.
Patience Phillips- Catwoman (2004)
Catwoman is that film that shouldn’t have seen the light of day. It probably was maybe a god idea in the beginning or maybe when someone was pitching it. All movie stars have movie bombs and this one was Berry’s. Berry played Patience as a meek designer who discovers a conspiracy within the cosmetics company who becomes this sexy fierce crime fighter after Egyptian cats that grant her superhuman cat-like abilities. This was probably one of if not Berry’s worst performance ever. Hell, she even won Worst Actress at the Golden Raspberry Award. Hey, you get to see Berry walk around in latex and make awful dialogue.
Giacinta “Jinx” Johnson- Die Another Day (2002)
Berry can add Bond girl to her resume as she was one of the leading ladies in this James Bond flick. Now this Bond film was meh and the story was meh, but Berry is where it’s at. Berry plays Jinx, an NSA agent assigned to kill a rogue North Korean agent Zao. The scene where Berry comes out of the ocean is a mouth drop scene. As Jinx, Berry is oh so sexy, fierce but not the typical Bond girl who needs saving. Homegirl can handle herself and it’s great seeing a black woman kicking ass.
Dorothy Dandridge- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Berry won her first Golden Globe for her portrayal of the beautiful 1950s screen star Dorothy Dandridge. The film covers Dandridge’s life from working as a nightclub singer before breaking out in Hollywood and the struggles of racism she went through. Dandridge was the first African-American to be nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award. It is ironic for Berry because two years later after playing this role, she would become the first African-American to win the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards. Berry is amazing and just as beautiful as Dandridge.
Sofia- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
Berry makes her way into the hit series of John Wick. When you kill a man’s dog, their will be hell to play. Berry plays Sofia Al-Azwar, an ex-assassin, “former” friend of Wick and the current manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca. Berry was intense in this role as you shoot a woman’s dog and all hell will break loose. Berry let loose as Sofia as she shot everything in her path when dude shot her dog.
Jean- Executive Decision (1996)
Let’s take it back to 1996 with a movie called Executive Decision. The movie revolved around the rescue of an airliner hijacked by terrorists. The film stars Kurt Russell, Halle Berry and Steven Seagal. Let’s take out Seagal because he was in it for a good five minutes. Don’t trust the trailers. Berry plays Jean, a flight attendant, who helps Russell with the mission. Berry won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Adventure/Drama for her performance in this role.
