Age: 59
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Halle Maria Berry (/ˈhæli/ HAL-ee; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, becoming Miss Ohio in 1986, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986, and placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998), as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance as a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the first woman of colour. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four instalments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), a psychiatrist in Gothika (2003), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004). A varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. Berry launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of several projects in which she has performed, including the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). She appeared in the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised (2020). Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996. She was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez. Berry has two children. She shares her first child with her former partner, model Gabriel Aubry, and her second child with Martinez. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halle Berry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
New York City. Present day. Two families control the city's most powerful real estate empires — the Montagues, rooted in Brooklyn's old money and new media, and the Capulets, whose glass towers define Midtown's skyline. Their rivalry is old, brutal, and deeply personal. Street-level fistfights between their employees and associates have already drawn the attention of the NYPD. One more incident, the mayor warns, and both families lose their operating licenses. Romée Montague (20, she/her) is the youngest daughter of the Montague empire — brilliant, impulsive, haunted by a past heartbreak with a woman named Rosie that left her cold and directionless. Her cousin Benny is her best friend, her protector, and her wildest accomplice. To shake Romée out of her funk, Benny drags her, disguised, into a glamorous Capulet rooftop gala. There, Romée sees Jules Capulet (18, he/him) — understated, quietly beautiful, with a sharp wit he keeps carefully hidden from his overbearing mother. They speak. They dance. They don't know each other's names until it's already too late. What follows is five breathless days and nights across the city: secret rooftop meetings, a midnight elopement arranged by Friar Lena (a progressive community chaplain), a duel in a Bronx parking lot that ends in blood, banishment, a desperate plan, a sleeping drug, a delayed message, and a crypt beneath an old Brooklyn cathedral where everything unravels. VERONA does not try to save them. It asks why — in a city of eight million people, with every resource at their fingertips — two young people still chose the oldest, most tragic path. And it answers: because the world around them never gave them a real choice.
