Happy Birthday Halle Berry
Aug. 14 2011, Published 1:35 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Oscar winning actress Halle Berry turned 45 on Sunday!
The Cleveland, Ohio native began her career as a beauty queen, entering pageants during her teenage years.
She landed her first big movie in 1991's Jungle Fever with minor roles in movies such as The Flintstones, X-Men, and Die Another Day following.
Halle is the only African-American woman to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Actress - which she did in 2001 for her role in Monster's Ball alongside Billy Bob Thornton.
The legendary beauty is also a long standing face of Revlon cosmetics, appearing in several print and TV ads that span a decade.
Halle's has been married twice, first to MLB star David Justice, from 1992 to 1997, and then to musician Eric Benet from 2001 to 2005.
The same year she started a relationship with model Gabriel Aubry and the couple had a daughter together - Nahla who is now thr