Halle Berry
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An array of people in varying futuristic and historical attire appear in a collage at the centre of the poster, surrounded by snippets of various environments. On the middle left is a countryside mansion beneath a starry sky. On the middle right is an old-fashioned ship with white sails at sea beneath a cloudy sky. On the bottom left, two small figures stare out at a futuristic city-scape. On the bottom right, a heartbeat monitor is overlaid on top of a dark and mysterious building with green domes. The actors featured most prominently in the array of people are Tom Hanks, who appears in profile looking towards camera with a beard and symbols tattooed over his face, and Halle Berry, who wears a modern coat and scarf and stares worriedly past the camera. Also in the array are Hugh Grant in a suit and tie, Susan Sarandon in formal robes with facial markings similar to those seen on Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess in a top hat with a mustache, Jim Broadbent in overalls grinning into a phone, Ben Whishaw in plain attire contemplatively playing a piano, and Bae Doona sitting on the ground in a plain white jumpsuit which leaves her arms and legs bare. At the bottom of the poster is the film's title, "Cloud Atlas," and the tagline, "Everything is connected." At the top of the poster is a list of actors in the movie: "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David, David Gyasi, with Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant."

An array of people in varying futuristic and historical attire appear in a collage at the centre of the poster, surrounded by snippets of various environments. On the middle left is a countryside mansion beneath a starry sky. On the middle right is an old-fashioned ship with white sails at sea beneath a cloudy sky. On the bottom left, two small figures stare out at a futuristic city-scape. On the bottom right, a heartbeat monitor is overlaid on top of a dark and mysterious building with green domes. The actors featured most prominently in the array of people are Tom Hanks, who appears in profile looking towards camera with a beard and symbols tattooed over his face, and Halle Berry, who wears a modern coat and scarf and stares worriedly past the camera. Also in the array are Hugh Grant in a suit and tie, Susan Sarandon in formal robes with facial markings similar to those seen on Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess in a top hat with a mustache, Jim Broadbent in overalls grinning into a phone, Ben Whishaw in plain attire contemplatively playing a piano, and Bae Doona sitting on the ground in a plain white jumpsuit which leaves her arms and legs bare. At the bottom of the poster is the film's title, "Cloud Atlas," and the tagline, "Everything is connected." At the top of the poster is a list of actors in the movie: "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David, David Gyasi, with Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant."

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Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model. It eventually led to her first weekly TV series, 1989's Living Dolls (1989), where she soon gained a reputation for her on-set tenacity, preferring to "live" her roles and remaining in character even when the cameras stopped rolling. It paid off though when she reportedly refused to bathe for several days before starting work on her role as a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) because the role provided her big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang (1992), one of the few times that Murphy was evenly matched on screen. In 1994, Berry gained a youthful following for her performance as sexy secretary "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones (1994). She next had a highly publicized starring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah (1993). Though the movie received mixed reviews, Berry didn't let that slow her down, and continued down her path to super-stardom. In 1998, she received critical success when she starred as a street smart young woman who takes up with a struggling politician in Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998). The following year, she won even greater acclaim for her role as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2000, she received box office success in X-Men (2000) in which she played "Storm", a mutant who has the ability to control the weather. In 2001, she starred in the thriller Swordfish (2001), and became the first African-American to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards, for her role as a grieving mother in the drama Monster's Ball (2001).

IMDb. “Halle Berry - Biography.” Accessed July 20, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000932/bio/.
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IMDb. “Halle Berry - Biography.” Accessed July 20, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000932/bio/.