SPOTLIGHT
Halle Berry
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orn on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, Halle Berry is the youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Halle and her older sister, Heidi, spent the first few years of their childhood living in an innercity neighbourhood. In the early 1970s, following her parents separation, Halle moved with her mother and sister to the predominantly white Cleveland suburb of Bedford. Berry attended a nearly all-white public school, and as a result was subjected to discrimination at an early age. Her early bouts with racism greatly influenced her desire to excel. Throughout high school, the determined teen participated in a dizzying array of extracurricular activities, holding positions of newspaper editor, class president, and head cheerleader. A natural performer, Berry earned a handful of beauty pageant titles during the early 1980s, including Miss Teen Ohio and Miss Teen America. She was eventually awarded f \?? ?[??\?]\[? H NN
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