Halle Berry (1966- ) is an American actress, the first black woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Actress. In America she is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful black women alive, even now in her 40s. She was Miss Ohio USA in 1986, a Bond girl in “Die Another Day” (2002) and has long been a face for Revlon.
While she is beautiful, I would not go to see a film just because she is in it, like I would with Gabrielle Union.
She won the Oscar for playing the lead in “Monster’s Ball” (2001), where we see her make love to the white racist prison guard who put her husband to death. Angela Bassett refused the part because of how it made black women look. Berry took it and won an Oscar.
After the Oscar win and her success playing Storm in the X-Men films (2000-2006), she was given the lead in “Catwoman” (2004). Few black actresses are given the lead in any film aimed mainly at white people, at least not without appearing opposite a white person. Unfortunately, “Catwoman” was terrible – so terrible she won a Razzie Award for it, which she accepted with good grace.
She does not try to just get by on her pretty looks. When she was going to play a crackhead in “Jungle Fever” (1991) she talked to crackheads and went for ten days without a bath. I can still remember her performance.
Apart from the Oscar she won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for what I think is her best film by far: “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge” (1999). She was perfect. She is something of a latter-day Dorothy Dandridge herself.
She has been married twice: first to baseball player David Justice (1992-1997), then to singer Eric Benet (2001-2005). She is now in a long-term relationship with Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, who is white and ten years younger than her. They have a daughter together, Nahla, born in 2008.
Life with Aubry seems to be a happy one, but her past with men has not always been so happy. One boyfriend hit her so hard that to this day she cannot hear well out of her right ear. When Justice asked for a divorce she was in such pain she came close to killing herself – only the thought of her mother finding her body pulled her back from the edge.
She is diabetic, the kind where you need to take shots all the time.
She is 5 foot 5 (1.66m), too short to be a model.
She is named after Halle’s department store in Cleveland, where she grew up. Her mother is white, her father is black. Her father left when she was four. He came back once but then was gone again for the rest of her childhood.
When they moved out of Cleveland to live in the suburbs people called her “zebra” and put Oreo cookies in her mailbox. Her mother told her that when people look at her all they will ever see is someone black: they will not know that her mother is white – nor will they care.
See also:
- Monster’s Ball
- Halle Berry is not the most beautiful black woman in the world
- What if Halle Berry were good-looking for a white girl? – What if everything about whites and blacks in America were the other way round?
- She tops these lists:
- She gets an honourable mention on this list made by me:
- black actresses
- biracial
- Jezebel stereotype
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Gabrielle Union
you can tell that she and her mother have a really strong beautiful relationship *sappy smiles*
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This is a pretty random entry Aba, no?
I agree, she’s very overrated in both looks and acting ability. Her acting career and box office luster is spotty but she’s a huge pop celebrity.
It’s funny, thoughout Berry’s careers, her roles have been hand me downs. She auditioned for the role of Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”. She was turned down in favor of Angela Bassett. The role in “Losing Isaiah” wasn’t originally was hers. Neither was the role in Warren Beatty’s misguided political satire, “Bulworth”. Beatty came down to a Fugees show at the House of Blues in late ’96 with a bouquet of roses begging Lauryn Hill to take that role but she turned it down. A year later, Berry became the shoe-in. She wasn’t the first choice for “X-Man” either.
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i think she’s pretty but not beautiful compared to other actresses. plus her figure is amazing! i must say she’s not that famous in my opinion because it’s been a while since she had a good movie. the only thing she’s famous for is her beauty and not so much for her talents.
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her mother is british if i rememner rightly, things could have been very different if she had grown up over here, mixed race people are looked at as mixed race rather than black, because mixed race is the fastest growing catagory. I think that america is still wrapped up deeply in the one drop rule.
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Agabond describes Halle as one of the most beautiful “black” women, but I think that it’s more accurate to say that she is widely considered one of the world’s most beautiful women, period. In the end, this is perhaps the most signifcant aspect of Halle’s popular stardom — that she is a black woman whose reputation for beauty is not restricted by a racial qualifier. In this sense, Halle opened a door that was previously closed.
I’ve never felt that Halle was an actor with much breadth, though I will give her props for a few jobs well done. Halle put in a very good turn in “Jungle Fever,” — like Agabond I can recall it vividly. I liked “Dorothy Dandridge,” and I thought Halle was strong in “Monster’s Ball.” But compared to, say, an Alfre Woodard, who can blend seamlessly into almost any character, Halle’s chops are quite narrow.
“Monster’s Ball” has been widely discussed in the blogosphere. I found the story — two shattered souls (one crushed by the world to a place of self-loathing, directed toward her son, driven to circumstances that lead to the death of her son, a death that in her heart she perhaps secretly desired on some level but immediately regretted; the other crushed by a brutally abusive father to the point where his self-hatred, likewise directed toward his own son, lead the son to commit suicide in front of him immediately after declaring his love for the father, again an outcome the father may have secretly desired but immediately regretted) finding one another by random coincidence and, ultimately, finding a sort of mutual redemption in uniting their parallel losses, and a way for each to move beyond his/her self-loathing — to be compelling, but badly told, a failing of the director more than the actors.
Whether Halle “deserved” an Academy Award for the role is a question that will probably be debated for decades. I would note that the Academy Awards often fail to reflect an objective measure of the “best” of the prior year from a purely artistic or technical standpoint. More often, they reward financial success first. They are also often used to correct “legacy” issues — actors who have been around for a while who deserve some recognition, or sometimes for (liberal Hollywood) PC reasons. For example, no way can anybody justify giving Michael Moore’s sophomoric, ham-fisted “Bowling for Columbine” an Acadmey Award over the sublimely luminous “Spellbound” in the “Best Documentary” category. But it happened, proving, once again, that reality is truly stranger than fiction. Jamie Foxx’s Ray Charles won over Don Cheadle’s Paul Rusesabagina, and Kate Blanchett (“Aviator”) won over Sophie Okonedo (“Hotel Rwanda”). I would debate either of those results with anybody, any time.
Charlize Theron, 10 years Halle’s junior, is somebody whose career is analogous to Halle’s in some ways. Charlize is known as much (or more) for her looks as for her acting, she has endured her share of embarrassing roles (“Aeon Flux”/”Catwoman”) and casting malapropisms (“Sweet November” (where Charlize deserved some sort of “best good sport” award for enduring what was possibly hisory’s most leaden romantic leading man performance by Keanu)/”Bullworth”).
For her Academy Award Charlize had to become a murderous whore. That was hardly Charlize’s strongest role, but it seems that the Academy will sometimes give the nod to a female actor who is willing to make sacrifices to her own dignity for the purpose of inhabiting a strong character.
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Lifeisannoying,
It was Berry’s mother who told her that she was black and would be seen as such. Berry herself has said that as a youngster, her friends didn’t believe that she had a white mother. When she first came out on the scene, few people suspected that she was a product of an interracial marriage. That’s how atypical she looks in constrast to other black Americans.
You’re right, “mixed race” people have their own Census category. Yet, after listening to the stories of many British black/white people’s stories, their experiences sound eerily similar to that of a black American’s. They still are generally perceived and treated as a black person despite having their own census category. Even “mixed race” celebs are often perceived as black and seen as such. So, how different are things, really?
Lil’vinia,
As I said in a previous post, Berry’s career is quite spotty. Her Oscar win was a fluke. But again, she’s a huge pop celebrity. One of the few black actresses who the mainstream media embraces.
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Blanc2: “In the end, this is perhaps the most signifcant aspect of Halle’s popular stardom — that she is a black woman whose reputation for beauty is not restricted by a racial qualifier. In this sense, Halle opened a door that was previously closed.”
That’s exactly it. Well said.
She was chosen by Esquire magazine as “The Sexiest Woman Alive”. Not the most beautiful, the sexiest. As in: the woman we’d most like to mate. Not bad for a 42-year-old black woman.
There are more beautiful women but there aren’t many that are that universally appealing.
And how many famous actresses do you know that look virtually the same without stage makeup and airbrushing? Nose job or not, she’s a natural beauty. She really does look that good. You don’t have to worry about waking up to a nightmare with her.
So: props to Halle. And she’s got herself a fine-ass baby-daddy.
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And she’s more evidence of black women aging well.
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Her mother’s mother is from England.
I agree that she is better known for her beauty than for her acting talent. Alfre Woodard is clearly a better actress, as Blanc2 pointed out. So are Angela Bassett and Kimberly Elise, just thinking off the top of my head about black actresses.
I am not a fan of hers nor would she even make it into my top twenty list of the most beautiful women. But she does come up quite a bit in comments. She is something of a reference point in questions of black beauty and black identity. Not that you would know that from my post (!!!) since I got drawn into writing about her as a Hollywood actress. So in there somewhere is another post waiting to be written about her.
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abagond,
Although I have nothing against Halle, personally, I see her as an example of Hollywood/American society’s longstanding ANTI-BW RACIST attitudes. Halle conforms to their OFFENSIVE/INSULTING idea of what a beautiful BW should look like (ie. a mixed race, “whiter looking” BW, with “more European/less African looking” features). Hally Berry is usually cited as the standard of ACCEPTABLE BLACK BEAUTY to most ANTI-BW RACISTS. Black actresses, like Angela Bassett, Alfre Woodard, Gabrielle Union, Kimberly Elise and others (who are JUST AS BEAUTIFUL/SEXY AS HALLE AND MORE talented) have not been rewarded by Hollywood with Oscars, financial success, and major mainstream fame because they don’t fit Hollywood’s/American society’s NARROW, UNFAIR, RACIST standard of beauty.
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I’m in the same boat as you, Aba, in that I never really paid much attention to Berry either. I’m only familiar with her early work from the early to mid ’90s and even that’s vague at best. I agree, she is very pretty but she’s not in my top 20 either.
Until I went on the internet and started looking up issues of race and beauty, I had no clue that she and Beyonce Knowles were such divise figures. I didn’t even know that Berry was considered “light skinned”. I never saw her in that light. But as you pointed out, she (and Knowles to a lesser extent) seems like the key reference point about ideas about “black beauty” and the such. Again, before logging online, I never saw her in that light and didn’t know that she was widely seen as such.
Laromana,
What do you make of Jennifer Hudson, Whoppi Goldberg and Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar wins? Or Taraji Henson and Viola Davis’ nods this year? And again, where has Halle’s career really went? She’s just a major pop celebrity, her acheivements as an actress aren’t really much better than other black actresses in the grand scheme of things. Angela Bassett has had a more fruitful career but she’s not as big of a pop celebrity.
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mynameismyname,
I definitely respect the supporting actress Oscars won by Jennifer Hudson, Whoppi Goldberg and Hattie McDaniel but I commented on Halle because Hollywood chose her as the first Black woman to win a BEST ACTRESS Oscar. I definitely DON’T AGREE that Halle is the FIRST BW to deserve this honor. I also don’t think that (in comparision to eqaully beautiful and more talented actresses like Angela Bassett, Alfre Woodard, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Hudson, etc) she should be one of the FEW Black actresses who enjoys the level of MAINSTREAM FAME (and the higher earnings that accompany it) that Hollywood/American society has given her SOLELY because she fits their NARROW, RACIST standard of ACCEPTABLE Black beauty.
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I get you, Laromana,
Your arguement is a common one on the internet. See, before logging online, I didn’t know that Berry and her relative success was viewed in that way.
I did give evidence in previous comments on this post of Berry’s career not being all that stellar (it’s really not, if you look at it objectively), despite the pop media attention but I respect views like yours.
Out of curiousity, do Gabby, Angela and Alfre seem more like authenthic black women, oppossed to Berryt? Even though Berry is hardly the most successful black actress, just one of the most publicized, do you view her as some little “mulatto” who stole opportunities from “REAL” black women like Angela and Gabby? If Berry’s supposedly “Euro” look elevated her media acceptance, why didn’t it help elevate countless other black actresses who are far more ambigious-looking than her? I just want to elaborate more on the line of thought that Laronoma and many others on the internet express.
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The fact that Halle Berry is seen in such a light has broadened the horizons of every black actress and model out there. The barrier was purely psychological (for white people). Now that they’ve learned that it’s possible for a black girl to be pretty, and not just “pretty for a black girl”, it opens up the door for Gabriel, Beyonce, etc.
She paved the way.
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Hmm …I don’t know if Halle Berry paved any way for anyone, really. As I proved several times on this page, she hasn’t really done anything particulary groundbreaking or extremely significant. She did win an Oscar but look at the role she won it for. At best, she became an acceptable pop celebrity, nothing more.
Many great black actresses paved the way for her, Gabby, and some of the newer ladies out on the scene though. Namely Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Diana Ross (yes, Diana Ross!), Diahann Caroll and many others. They should be celebrated and credited for their achievements.
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like i said, halle is not that famous compared to other actresses like angelina jolie, resse witherspoon, and other famous actresses. and i think some of it have to do with the fact that they’re white and halle’s black. maybe i’m wrong but that’s what i see. black actresses don’t always get noticed or talked about compared to white actresses. the way i see it halle has been famous because she’s a pretty girl. that’s all i ever heard about halle is how is beautiful she is. i hardly hear anyone say how good of an actress she is. i think she is a good actress but not the best. although she has won her first oscar, people still look and saw how much of a pretty girl she is and not so much of what she does.
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On the one hand, her winning the Oscar was a great moment and it is important. Like Joe Louis, Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson and Dorothy Dandridge, by breaking new ground she makes it that much easier for all the blacks who come after her. We still live in the age of black firsts.
On the other hand it is not easy to watch how the mainstream makes such a big deal about her while overlooking other black actresses who are much better if not also more beautiful. It is hard not to think that her being half-white has something to do with it. And that makes it all the worse: like blackness is only acceptable if it is part white in some way.
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love this photo of her
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loved her in bond 007
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Thanks for reminding me. I forgot that she was a Bond girl. I can still remember her coming out of sea in her bikini!
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i was happy that she won an oscar because i thought she deserved it. all i’m saying is that she’s not recognized for her talents compared to other actresses but only for her looks. if you look at the black male actors, they’re always talked about. will smith, denzel washington, jaime foxx, samuel jackson, and so on. but with black actresses they hardly get recognized. yea they may be famous and good actors but you hardly hear anything about it. look at gabrielle union and sanaa lathen, both great black actresses who had box office hits. love and basketball is one of my favorite movies by sanaa. but she doesn’t get the same recognition as white actresses and she’s better than some of the white actresses that’s out. i don’t want to put this on race but it seems that hollywood would focus on famous black male actors, which is nothing wrong with that, than black actresses.
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oh and the bikini part, she looked beautiful and even though she’s a thin, petite girl, she also had curves as well. that was best i ever seen from halle.
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I agree with both Mynameismyname and Laromana, but Halle may have been hyped by the media, she doesn’t get too many acting offers from Hollywood, besides, Hollywood sexualized Halle more than other actress, White or Black. Then, many acting agencies rejected Halle because she’s too beautiful or not Black enough. However, the Black community still worships her along with Beyonce.
Abagond,
How about doing a piece on actress Ellen Holly?
La Reyna
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Okay. Thanks for the suggestion!
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“resse witherspoon”
Really? You think Halle isn’t as well known as Reese? At least internationally, Halle is DEFINITELY better-known. So is Beyonce. I don’t think most of them would even recognize Reese’s face. Everyone knows who Halle Berry is. She’s definitely up there with Angelina Jolie, Carmen Diaz, and J Lo. Jennifer Anniston is a complete no-name over there, for example, being as they don’t really watch sitcoms at prime-time. Besides, she has no talent (even less than Halle, in my opinion) and is very plain.
Anyway, if the question is who is a better actress, then of course Ms. Bassett, Givens, Latham, and Woodard are much better. There’s no competition. I’m just saying that since Halle’s won an Oscar it might be easier for them to get one, as well.
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i have a belief that facial symmetry equates to beauty. if you look at Halle Berry,Yasmin Warsame, Liya Kedebe, and Emanuela De Paula, they share the same features, and have in some ways been given accepted by the mainstream for that beauty. i would love to hear your thoughts about women of color and facial symmetry and their acceptance by the mainstream media.
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mynameisnyname,
I agree with your comments regarding Halle and other Black actresses.
My comments relate more to the way Hollywood/American society use a NARROW, RACIST, ANTI-BW standard to define “mainstream” ACCEPTABLE Black beauty. This “false perception” of Black beauty affects how all BW in the entertainment industry are treated (and compensated). It’s not that I think that Halle and Beyonce are “less Black” than Angela Bassett or Jennifer Hudson but rather that RACIST Hollywood/American society has determined that one group is more representative of “mainstream” ACCEPTABLE Black beauty than the other.
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Jennifer Anniston is a complete no-name over there, for example, being as they don’t really watch sitcoms at prime-time. Besides, she has no talent (even less than Halle, in my opinion) and is very plain.
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Glad somebody else said it. I thought I was living in some alternative universe. Far be it for me to slag a woman because she is not good looking enough, but I really never understood this weird attraction toward Jennifer Aniston. There are actresses that are able to pull of the girl next door persona, Black or White, that has much more zing than she could ever have in her whole body–but she is plastered everywhere like we’re supposed to accept that she is beautiful and interesting.
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Wow, that is just how I feel about her too!
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jennifer plays the same girl in everything she does….no depth to her character. I have seen halle play different people…and each person I believe her as that role. Makes her a true actress. I love queen latifah – she makes me laugh – but she almost always plays the same person…i love that person…but its the same person. Now I have seen QL play other roles well…but she just doesnt get cast like she should.
thats why I dont like Tom Cruise or a whole legion of Top Billing leading men…they play the same role everytime. My favorite male character is actually Viggo Mortensen. I love “history of violence” a mafia type movie. You actually see him play one man who is two different people – and you see the change…amazing.
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Jennifer is only popular because of her high profile marriage with Brad Pitt. If it wasn’t for that, she would be struggling doing more TV roles lol. Anyways regarding Halle, yes there are things that helped Halle become famous. The fact that she is bi-racial is one of them. The fact that her being bi-racial and beautiful helped even more. Larmona sai it best. I like Halle and all but they due tend to have black women with delicate features are standard for black women’s beauty. It’s very racist in my opinion. Black women have such a diverse image in facial features and skin tone, that is unfair to standardize a beauty that close to the ideal mainstream beauty. What’s even sad is that black sites do the same. Anyways, I like Halle for her positive attitude and efforts. She isn’t the best actress but she is alright with me.
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Give me a break. How many blacks in America who are not recent immigrants, look 100% African. Even Africans are not the same color with the same features. Look at the Eritrians versus the population of the DR Congo. No matter what , we American blacks have to always put forth the black litmus test.
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why did halle berry became famous you jerks!!
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I assumed Halle Berry was in a great loving relationship with hopes of a really long marriage. Seems there aren’t such things as blissful marriages resembling ours any longer – twenty years together and even now cheerful.
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being “mixed” does NOT help one get gigs in Hollywood. Quite the opposite. 9 times out of 10 they’ll choose someone “blacker” when casting a “black” role because that’s what the writers wrote. A black role. Get it?
i’ve got one of those “ambiguous” mixed girl faces, hard to tell whether I’m black, latina, or what… and most of the time, I’ll get to the callbacks,,, it’ll be between me and a few other girls,,, so my acting “chops” get me to the final rounds, but in the end, they go with darker skin and more african features.
Trust me. I have LOTS of first hand experience. And i’m not the only mixed actress with this problem. just go talk to any one of a multitude of SAG members to find out for yourself.
it’s harder for a mixed girl to get cast.
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don’t get me wrong halle berry is pretty but she is not the best looking black woman in the world.i wish people would stop saying that.
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I agree. I wrote a post about it:
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I don’t understand why people still think Halle Berry is ovverrated as an actress. I actually think that she is quite remarkable! Halle is underrated to me, because she never gets enough credit for her remarkable work in film. And what makes Angela Basset and Gabriel Union better than Halle? What have they done onscreen that makes them better than her?
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Akim,
Halle is an Academy Award winner. Not sure about Gabrielle Union (she is more beautiful <- just my female opinion), but Angela Basset is an excellent actress. (And very beautiful too, but in her case, attractiveness is not the most remarkable thing about her; she is a great actress).
Halle Berry is ok; she is not untalented. But I wouldn't say she is one of the best American actresses (Oscar or not. There are plenty of mediocre actors and actresses who won Oscars and many talented ones who were never even nominated. I mean… Sandra Bullock?)
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Mira,
I have great respect for Halle’s talents and what really frustrates me is people’s notions that Angela Basset is better than her. To me, Angela Basset has not shown this to be true in the slightest! Halle has taken more risks as actress that have paid off than Angela.
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To me, Halle Berry is to Angela Basset what Brad Pitt is to Gary Oldman (and we all know how much I respect Olman’s acting… Yes, even when his accent slips, like in the (in)famous “Dark Knight” roof scene).
lol Just kidding. But I do believe Angela is highly underrated. She is one of the best American actresses (not just black ones!) On the other hand, it’s not that Halle is untalented or completely overrated.
In fact, there are no similarities between the two. The only reason we’re comparing them is because Abagond did that in the post.
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To me there is no living, working American actress of any race who is BOTH more talented AND more beautiful than Angela Bassett. Those who are more talented are not more beautiful. And those who are more beautiful are not more talented as an actress. She can take a forgettable film like “Notorious” and make it unforgettable.
Someone like Halle Berry is not even close. Try Audrey Hepburn.
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Abagond,
IWell to me, I think Halle is more talented than Ms Bassett Theiry both beautiful but in different ways. It’s interesting that you say that Angela made ”Notorious” unforgettable when there are some people who actually think she was one of the worst things about the film! People have complained that she didn’t have a jamiacan accent like the real Mrs Wallace.
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I noticed that too, about the accent, but she made up for it later:
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Actually, Bassett has a tendency to overact every single role she plays. Her theatrical training hurts her transition onto the big screen, which is why she has struggled to get work as of late, her last major role in ‘Meet the Browns’ is the prime example of what I mean.
Berry, however, has tried to challenge herself with the roles she has taken whether they be good or bad. Even in Catwoman, which was widely panned, Berry delivers a solid performance with all of her cat-like mannerisms, which is why most critics panned the visual effects, director and script instead of Berry.
Even the critics, who have seen her latest film ‘Frankie and Alice’, have said that Berry is “spell-bounding” in her role as a woman with multiple personality disorder.
Put simply, Berry’s career has suffered because of the role she has picked, NOT because of her talent as an actress.
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I think Halle is very popular because she is (1) beautiful; (2) talented; and (3) has a likable personality. With respect to (3), her mannerisms and smile seem to light a warm glow in the hearts of many middle class Americans, like when she did that dance routine on Ellen.
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Once again, a brief anecdote:
Back in the day, somewhere in the 90’s, I went to see a movie I knew nothing about, called “Boomerang”. Alone. The next night, I dreamt of HALLE BERRY. Before that flick, I had never dreamt of ANY Hollywood actress, but I did dream of Halle Berry. A romantic dream.
Robin Givens was hot as hell, but I suppose it was the sweetness of Halle’s character that appealed to me. I don’t care how white or biracial, black or non-black she looks to some people, she’s still gorgeous.
Mmuah!
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Angela Basset is still the one for me. Sigh.
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I have to admit that I have a strong preference for Halle over Angela, but that’s just me.
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I’d like to have them both. 😛
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“I don’t care how white or biracial, black or non-black she looks to some people, she’s still gorgeous.”
That’s a good message for many to hear. On this thread you can see (with only a minimal amount of “reading between the lines”) the same paradoxical pattern of (1) discomfort with and dislike of Halle’s mixed race background/phenotype combined with her high level of achievement and (2) claims that Halle isn’t mixed or that her mixed background doesn’t matter (she’s just “black”).
It just reconfirms the point I was making on the other thread that this practice of denying that mixed race people exist is a really just a cover for suppressing mixed race people. What it comes down to is that some want to maintain this traditional American caste known as “black” that supposedly includes everyone of known African ancestry. However, these individuals don’t intend for everyone who is “black” to possess equal standing within the caste. Rather, the culture of the caste is supposed to be geared towards those with stronger African features. Hence, Halle is “just black” but it’s not okay for a “black” to think that she is more beautiful than Angela Bassett, because Angela is the more African-looking “black” and therefore possesses higher standing.
Perhaps I should stop being so esoteric. This may not make much sense to those living outside the US and even many of those within it.
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@FG
I understand what you’re saying. That’s part of the reason I started posting here: the complexity of racial issues in US (and elsewhere). It’s fascinating in a very disturbing way. 😀
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To me Halle Berry is the most beautiful women I have seen.Without makeup she is stiil beautiful.I like that she isn’t stick thin,she has curves.And she doesn’t seem to notice she is drop dead gorgeous.I and many other people see Halle as being black.I didn’t even know she was biracial until I saw her with her mom at the oscars on the red carpet.She has her mom facial features.And if iam not mistaken Halle identifes herself as black.
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I’m sorry Abagond, I’m going to have to completely (respectfully) agree to disagree with you here. If I was a man I would cart Halle off to France or wherever she wanted to go and never come back again.
I was just watching a documentary on her from the 90’s today, when she was very young, (before her nose appeared to have been narrowed), and Halle, from her 20’s-30’s, was simply one of the most beautiful women of our time. Petite but curvy, perfect soft feminine features, elegant, graceful. . . the face of an angel. Halle in her prime could knock out ten thousand Kim Kardashians.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufK6n4w-61A)
A rare occasion here, I’m gonna have to stick with the majority of the public. There’s just no two ways about it.
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Abagong,u seem to make some personal misappropriate opinion about this woman,which is not ideal,she is 5foot”5 which is too short what for a model really?? Stop hating Halle Berry is actually 5foot tall,she has a good height,and mind you,she was a model and a beauty pageant which height is a very nessecary factor to scale through in these facets,so halle is tall not short,she can never be listed or sighted as a short woman,never.yea angela rejected that role,and halle took it up,good thing she did,look where it got her,mind you,halle has rejected roles too which angelina jolie and jennifer lopez played…Halle berry she is the most beautiful woman in the world
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I meant,Halle berry is actually 5foot 7 tall…not 5foot 5 as u mentioned
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She ain’t too short to be a model otherwise she wouldn’t have won several beauty contests that she won, models are also potential beauty pageants whom do win and height is a qualification she is tall for a model and a lady otherwise she wouldn’t have made it to the miss world 1st tenth finals in her modelling and pageantry career do your check
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