Halle Berry Signs With Range Media Partners
31.01.2023 - 21:07
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EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed iconic actress, producer and director Halle Berry, who to this day, remains the only Black winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The trailblazer won the prize for her performance opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the 2001 Marc Forster drama Monster’s Ball, with her role also garnering her Best Actress awards from the Berlin Film Festival, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Board of Review.
Over the course of her more than three decades in Hollywood, Berry has featured in such major franchises as X-Men, Kingsman, John Wick and James Bond, working with a who’s who of talent while appearing in films of every imaginable genre — from thrillers like Gothika, Perfect Stranger and The Call, to dramas like Things We Lpost in the Fire, sci-fi epics like the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas, action-comedies including The Last Boy Scout, and rom-coms like Boomerang with Eddie Murphy.
Other notable film credits include Kings with Daniel Craig, Bulworth with Warren Beatty, Losing Isaiah opposite Jessica Lange, Executive Decision with Kurt Russell, the live-action version of The Flintstones from Universal, Strictly Business, and Swordfish with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman.
While Berry is best known for her work on the film side, she’s also had her TV efforts recognized with top honors, most recently notching Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her work in the Oprah Winfrey-produced ABC TV movie, Their Eyes Were Watching God. She prior to that won an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and NAACP Image Award for her performance in HBO’s TV movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, from director Martha Coolidge.
Berry most recently made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised, which hit #1