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Halle Berry Biography

Name: Halle Berry

Born: 14 August 1968 (Age: 42)
Where: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Height: 5' 7"
Awards: 1 Oscar, 1 Emmy, 1 Golden Globe

We just can't help it, can we? We all have an innate suspicion of models who become actors. We immediately feel that, otherwise talentless, they've been cast on their looks alone, that they have no real right to inhabit our screens. Whenever someone tries it, the jeers begin and those terrible four words are uttered: Cindy, Crawford, Fair and Game. Yet Halle Berry, a former model and, worse still, a Beauty Pageant winner, has risen above all that. Through a combination of the usual luck and, above all, hard work and persistence, she's made herself into a fine actress, an Emmy winner and the most welcome Oscar winner in recent years. And it has not been easy...


Halle Maria Berry was born on the 14th of August, 1968 (though some insist it was 1966), in Cleveland, Ohio. She was named after the town's Halle Building, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store but is now an office block (it's also used in the Drew Carey Show). Her father, Jerome, an African American and a hospital attendant by trade, left when she was just four, so she and her elder sister Heidi were raised by their Caucasian, Liverpool-born mother, Judith, herself a nurse in a psychiatric ward. Jerome would return after four years but the violence he directed towards Judith and Heidi meant that he did not stay for long. Throughout her adult life, Halle Would have no contact with him at all, still being estranged when Jerome died in 2003.


Halle's first few years were spent in a black neighbourhood of Cleveland. Here her fair complexion made her stand out, but not as much as she did when her mother moved them out of the inner-city to a mainly white suburb. Now, a little older and in this conservative milieu, her "difference" was not so readily tolerated. "I'm black," she said later. "I realised very early in my life that I wasn't going to be this mulatto stuck in the middle, not knowing if I'm black or white".


To overcome these racial difficulties, Halle threw herself into school activities at Bedford High and tried to make friends. She did well. She was in the Honour Society, a cheerleader, class president, and an editor on the school newspaper. And, naturally, she was Prom Queen. At least, she was joint Prom Queen. Having won outright, she was accused of voting irregularities and (guess what?) forced to share her title with a WASP

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                   Halle Berry dancing to "She's Fine" on Ellen

Halle Berry's Bavna Bungle

Halle Berry sparkled at the NAACP Awards in a gorgeous gown by Pucci and stunning teardrop diamond danglers by red carpet darling, Bavna. So what's wrong with this picture?

We've been in this movie before.

Remember the statement makers Juliana Margulies wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year? I, for one, couldn't forget them...and well...I guess Halle Berry's stylist didn't get the memo that these were some of the most talked about jewels of the night. 

But it's no surprise that Bavna is a go-to gem for red carpet A-listers these days. Statement earrings are perhaps the most popular category for our sartorial sirens, and Bavna is emerging as one of the best sources for them.

Every Kardashian under the sun has sported Bavna baubles on the carpet, in addition to celebs like Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Lopez.

The brains behind the Bavna brilliance is designer, Sunny Jain, who named the line after his mother, Bhavna Jain according to their Facebook Page.

"The essence of Bavna is rooted deep in the ancient language of Sanskrit, where its meaning gives rise to many forms of development. Development of mind, development of body, development of soul. It is in this profound connotation that our philosophy for design resonates."

Look out Lorraine Schwartz! Stylists need to be careful, though, not to duplicate their looks on the carpet in one season since Bavna styles are so memorable.

Yup. We're watching.

Halle Berry's Bavna Bungle

Halle Berry sparkled at the NAACP Awards in a gorgeous gown by Pucci and stunning teardrop diamond danglers by red carpet darling, Bavna. So what's wrong with this picture?

We've been in this movie before.

Remember the statement makers Juliana Margulies wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year? I, for one, couldn't forget them...and well...I guess Halle Berry's stylist didn't get the memo that these were some of the most talked about jewels of the night. 

But it's no surprise that Bavna is a go-to gem for red carpet A-listers these days. Statement earrings are perhaps the most popular category for our sartorial sirens, and Bavna is emerging as one of the best sources for them.

Every Kardashian under the sun has sported Bavna baubles on the carpet, in addition to celebs like Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Lopez.

The brains behind the Bavna brilliance is designer, Sunny Jain, who named the line after his mother, Bhavna Jain according to their Facebook Page.

"The essence of Bavna is rooted deep in the ancient language of Sanskrit, where its meaning gives rise to many forms of development. Development of mind, development of body, development of soul. It is in this profound connotation that our philosophy for design resonates."

Look out Lorraine Schwartz! Stylists need to be careful, though, not to duplicate their looks on the carpet in one season since Bavna styles are so memorable.

Yup. We're watching.

Yellow Gold Goes to the Movies

Big movie premieres have been littering the calendar this week, and stunning yellow gold jewelry is almost upstaging the stars themselves.

I’ve been covering the growth of the golden trend all month, and it’s clear the mellow yellow metal push is only going to get more intense in the coming weeks – especially with the May Is Gold Month bonanza underway.

Mom-to-be, Jennifer Garner, lit up the red carpet at her Ghosts of Girlfriends Past premiere in Los Angeles. And Party of Five alum, Lacey Chabert, joined her looking all grown up in an off-the-shoulder gown with a Coomi 20k yellow gold and sliced diamond spring cuff with a matching handbag.






















































Wolverine fans had more than Hugh Jackman to cheer about. Costar, Lynn Collins, wore H. Stern's Zephyr cuff in 18K yellow gold to go with her stunning red ensemble, and the always lovely Halle Berry one-upped her with her own golden wristwear and a LBD to die for.





















































Will the woman please have a bad hair day or something so we can all feel better about ourselves?

Across the country at the Tribeca Film Festival Kim Kardashian added jewelry maven to her growing resume, as she stepped out in a gold statement necklace with (you guessed it!) another yellow gold cuff.



























And that doesn’t begin to cover all the golden glow. Check out Jewelry.com's Facebook page to see more celebrity gold looks for your drooling pleasure.

And for you sweepstakes fanatics - you know who you are - don’t forget about the May Is Gold Month sweepstakes on Jewelry.com to win your favorite gold jewelry piece.

Yup. There's a gold cuff just ripe for the taking...