Halle Berry
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"Preparation, luck and opportunity seemed to come together
  at the same time."                                 -Halle Berry



Halle Berry has an 8 Destiny Path.
 Other well know people with an 8 Destiny Path:  Cate Blanchett, Joan Collins, Laura Dern, Mimi Farina, Jane Fonda, Aretha Franklin, Whoopi Goldberg, Marianne Jean-Baptiste,  Grace Kelly, Kate Mulgrew, Mary Shelley, Cybill Shepherd, Grace Slick, Barbra Streisand, Loretta Swit, Elizabeth Taylor, Kathleen Turner, Dianne Wiest, Edward Albee, Jack Casady, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Emilio Estevez, David Freiberg, Richard Gere, Nickolas Grace,  Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ian Holm, Nicky Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Tommy Lee Jones, Raul Julia,  Paul Kantner [March 17], Ken Kesey, Stanley Kubrick, John Landis, Christopher Lloyd, Jake Lloyd, David Mamet, Viggo Mortensen, Sam Neill, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, David Prowse, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, George Takei, Diego Velasquez, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Jon Voight, Billy Wilder, Robin Williams, Peter Llewellyn Williams, and Bill Wyman

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Perfect Stranger
 set to shoot early 2006
Co-stars  Bruce Willis  and Julia Roberts will produce the film, but will not star. TDN  Bruce Willis fanpage 
 
 The psychological thriller is set in the world of the Internet.                           NR, Thriller, 1hr 30min



Halle Berry Wins Oscar and SAG for most recent storm in the role of Leticia Musgrove, a convict's wife in Monster's Ball
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Monster's Ball

Behind The Scenes Interview
Film History


Backstage at the 2002 SAG Awards
From Maximus to Magnanimous

     ... stunning Halle Berry, who was still joyously weepy when she met the press after winning best actress for Monster's Ball. "I'm a wimp! Just say it, I'm always a wimp at these things!" she laughed as she wiped away tears. She said she was focused on the pleasure of winning the SAG award and her victory did not add additional stress regarding her chances at nabbing an Oscar.

     "I don't really care about what happens at the Oscars, and I don't mean to be flip about it," said Berry, "but there's just so many good things that have come my way because of this project and win or lose, my life is going to be very, very different because of that work…I'm just going to enjoy it and be happy for whoever wins, I really, really am."

     Having been inspired by African-American actors who have preceded her, Berry said she hoped her victory would inspire newcomers as well. "For someone of color to have the words 'award-winning' attached to their name, I think it means hope for every other person of color out there today. My reality now can be their reality, and that feels really good."

Halle Berry's Star Chart

     One of Halle Berry's beauty secrets is her ability to overcome self-doubt as indicated by her ascendant, with the  North Node denoting self-reliance in particular. Berry overcame her girlhood shyness and became a cheerleader in high school. She graduated to prom queen and class president to be entered into the Miss Teen Ohio beauty pageant (1985) by an anonymous admirer. She won! Her progressed Sun engaged her Virgo Descendant and power conjunction (Venus, Zeus, and Jupiter in Virgo conjunct radix Descendant) to continue her wins from her seventeenth year forward. Gradually gaining more confidence with each competition success, she entered a series of beauty pageants that expanded her sphere of influence until her win in the Miss World dress competition. Berry also placed as the first runner-up in the Miss USA competition! An impressive record for someone who fought prejudice and other social ills as a self-conscious child.  

     Berry entered the brief 'sampler period' of her life scouting out possible educational sources and looking for the right vocational vehicle to showcase her talent. She enrolled at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland in 1986, to study broadcast journalism. Her initial try at reporting just didn't gel there. The tremendous power of her TransNeptunian Kronos in Gemini, in her third house of reporting (to the community) is too strong for a career in radio broadcasting. Kronos often attracts "princely hierarchies" and red tape yet is still an advocate of perfection down to the last minute detail. Superiors at the school station or the show's specified "packaging" may not have chimed in with Berry's tone -  insistence on excellence - a paramount issue when it comes to her work.

According to: Contemporary Black Biography ( Volume 19. Gale Research, 1998) Berry, while in Chicago "auditioned for a role in producer Aaron Spelling's television pilot Charlie's Angels '88. Although the show did not materialize, Spelling was impressed with Berry's screen test. He encouraged her not to give up acting. Two big breaks in the young actress's career came with a three-week USO tour with Bob Hope and a starring role as a teenage fashion model in the short-lived television series Living Dolls. Berry remarked in Ebony, "Here I was an ex-model, a former beauty queen and when Living Dolls was canceled, I was playing a model. People weren't taking me seriously."

Hoping audiences would view her differently, Berry prepared for her next role as a crack addict named Vivien in Jungle Fever by interviewing several crack addicts and going ten days without a bath. Although her role brought her acclaim, Berry took a recurring part in the television series Knots Landing for financial purposes. "I'm a real miser," the actress told Werner. "I want a cushion," she added."

November 2003 Premiere of  'Gothika', helmed by French actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz. The film features the A-list cast of Berry, Penelope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr. and Charles Dutton. Halle said, "It is daunting, I feel the pressure," she adds of the film being a test of her "box office draw." "Half of me also feels that I did it for the right reasons because I love the character."



  SWORDFISH        Executive                   The X-Men              Halle Stars                                        Decision                           X2                       'Gothika' 

                                                             
These are some of my favorite Halle Berry films (I love the X-Men comics too!) Far right, Halle with Robert Downey Jr. in suspense thriller 'Gothika' [also with Penelope Cruz.] She is Dr. Grey, a personification of our modern mainstream 'science vs paranormal' mindset, caught in the institutional machinery the social system demands for those identities the computer mind cannot file.  Dr. Grey has switched chairs with her therapy patients, now trying to navigate unknown corridors inside her own institution. This is one for a 'whodunnit' audience with some paranormal savvy. You jump out of your seat before you realize what is happening! Much of the premise is based on accurate, documented information, so it resonates truth, but has not yet been absorbed into the collective mainstream consciousness. The first time I saw Halle Berry on film she was calm, cool and collected as a flight attendant on Airforce One. You've come a long way, baby!


 


 Halle Berry as Ororo, African Priestess, in X-Men
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The Charlie Rose Show   All of these interviews are available for purchase.

 HALLE BERRY
Show Date: 2/18/2002
Actress Halle Berry discusses with Charlie Rose how she developed her character in "Monster's Ball", and how she convinced the director that she fit the role.
 

HALLE BERRY
Show Date: 1/8/2002
Actress Halle Berry talks with Charlie Rose about her role in "Monster’s Ball," a new film co-starring Billy Bob Thornton, and her acting career. Berry received the Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review and an Oscar for her performance in the film.                Audio file of interview available online.
 

HALLE BERRY
Show Date: 8/9/1999
Actress Halle Berry talks with Charlie Rose about her HBO movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge," some of the barriers facing women and black actresses and actor Warren Beatty´s influence in her life. She calls Beatty her "secret weapon"
in her effort to make the Dandridge biography.
 

WENN
21 February 2002
Warren Beatty enthuses, "Have you seen her in Bulworth? Have you seen her in the Dorothy Dandridge film? I don't like to show partiality to one film over another. But I want to come out in support of Halle [the best actress award for her role as widow Leticia Musgrove in, Monster's Ball.] I'm terribly fond of her. She's an incredible actress. Halle is such a beautiful woman and, at the same time, has such a sense of humility that people have trouble adjusting to it."
 

Lena Horne called Dorothy Dandridge “our Marilyn Monroe”

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge DVD review by Pam Grady
Nov. 9, 1922 - Sep. 8, 1965  RIP  Dorothy Jean Dandridge

 

 


Halle Berry Wins Oscar for a recent storm in the role of a convict's wife in 'Monster's Ball' ~ Denzel Washington won for 'Training Day'
 

Emmy 2005

Oprah Winfrey* Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Halle Berry, Nominated for the Golden Globe Award

Oprah Winfrey produced and bankrolled the filming, with a Terence Blanchard score and superb cinematography by Checco Varese.
 

     Originally telecast March 6, 2005, by ABC, this "Oprah Book Club" TV movie is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a certified classic of African-American literature. Covering the first 30 years of the 20th century, the film is set in Eatonville, FL, a largely black community and the home of free-spirited Janie Crawford (Halle Berry). Forced into marriage with a much older and much wealthier man at age 16, Janie endures both this unhappy union and a second equally dismal marriage, trapped not only by the bonds of matrimony but also by the rigid patriarchal society of the period. Her only happiness is manifested in her ongoing illicit romance with a younger, none too reliable gent known as Tea Cake (Michael Ealy)--much to the shock and dismay of her very proper neighbors.                        Full article

 
*  Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
 

-Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

 
     Her interview with Paul Fischer, 'The Other Side of Berry," posted March 5, 2002, had several candid questions for the candid star.
These were particularly relevant with regard to her 2002 progressed star chart.
 
 
5 Mar 02                         The Other Side of Berry     

   Halle Berry' s fight to play Leticia in Monster's Ball resulted with a history-making Oscar win (more on Oscars)

Q.    There is a lot in this movie that is hard on actors.    
Peter Boyle is pretty liberal, and those scenes where he espouses strong racist views are tough to watch.

A.   Yeah, that one in particular. That made everyone uncomforta-ble. And actually Peter Boyle is the one that came up with the split dark oak line. The lines the writer wrote were ok, but we were really searching for something even more. We were trying to go to what was the worst thing some one could say, and the words written weren't coming out of Peter's mouth right for Peter. So he actually came out with some of those lines, and Marc will tell you the story, everyone was shocked, that he being such a liberal guy, so different from who this character is, was able to come out with that.

Q.  You're so beautiful, has it been a struggle to be seen for more than that?

 A.  Yeah, it's been a struggle. I can think of worse struggles to have and that's why I'm not complaining. But it has been a struggle. And that's why I fight so hard for roles like this. And even though I do the X-men and the swordfishes, they have a valid place in my career being who I am, but so do these kind of movies. And that's why it makes me want to fight harder and do better because I know it's not expected.

Q.   We haven't talked about Sean (Puff Daddy.) That was really good and surprising. What about that?

A.   He was really good. ...  one of the reason's I took this movie is because I was working with real actors, Billy Bob, Peter Boyle, Marc Forester, and indepen-dent movie. Independents are known for being real 'actory' and a chance to really act. So when they first mentioned Puffy I think everyone went, "Huh? Puffy?" But I knew how he was feeling because everyone was going, "Huh? Halle?" So I could relate. And I was so proud that he went down there and worked hard, he worked with a coach, and came prepared. I think he did a fine job for what he had to do.

Catwoman on the Prrrrrowl, in July! In Catwoman, Miss Berry plays Patience Price, an artist for scientists at a cosmetics company who transforms into her alter ego to take on her evil boss. Berry's Mars is deposited in the 'temple cat niche' of her star chart, the cusp between fifth and sixth houses. The fifth  department of life, governed by Leo, is the temple cat and guardian, at home with the movie character. Catwoman's quality persona isn't far from the royal priestess Storm in the X-Men series.

Mars here also activates the sixth house  temple, mystery drama, and 'door' that leads to other dimensional power. [This is the realm of Alice in Wonderland,  ceiling-to-basement, Eat Me-Drink Me formulae, flawless gems interwoven in the transfiguration of Patience.] Catwoman was not popular when first  screened, though it can evolve into a cult classic over the next decade, as we accept independent heroine stars in their own storybook movie. The 'royal cat' subtleties of Catwoman may have been lost in the exoteric theatre or catty camp could have out-clevered itself. I enjoyed the Sekhmet undertones and sub-text that is so seldom seen on the big screen.
 

X-MEN

Marvel Comics Storm biography. Her basic background in the Marvel Comics series follows:

STORM

Real name: Ororo Munroe
Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, (former) Cairo, Egypt; Kenya and Tanzania; X-Men headquarters, Australian outback

History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.

When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today. [CONTINUED, click X-men video cover, left]