Halle Berry

Halle Berry won an Academy Award for Best Actress because of her role in Monster’s Ball, making Hollywood History. She was the first African- American Actress to do so. Her ability as an actress is clear when you realize that she has 70 nominations for different awards and 41 wins. No wonder she has a net worth of $70 million and one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood! Halle Berry got her start in the early 1980’s with beauty pageants. She was Miss Teen America and first runner up at the 1985 Miss U.S.A competition. She started on Knot’s Landing for one season in 1991, but her big break came when she co-starred in Jungle Fever opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Halle Berry is best known for her role as the Bond girl “Jinx” in Die Another Day and her role as Storm in the X-Men movie franchise. Contributing to her wealth, Halle Berry endorses Revlon, Models for Versace and Harry Winston, is a partner is Scandale Paris, a lingerie company that sells in Target, and owns a film production company, 606 Films. She also loves homes and has four, a $2.9 million home in Hollywood Hills, a $2.275 million vintage home in Beverly Hills built in 1948 and a $1.6 million vacation home in Quebec, Canada. When she isn’t vacationing in Palma de Mallorca on the island of Majorca in Spain, she loves to vacation in her $8 million beach house in Malibu Cove. Halle Berry is quite the philanthropist as well, supporting such causes as the Callaway Golf Foundation Women’s Cancer Initiative, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Kids Wish Network and the Afghanistan Relief Organization.