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.
Her role as a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) provided her big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang (1992). In 1994, she acted in The Flintstones. She next had a highly publicized costarring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah (1995). 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. 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.
She appeared as Leticia Musgrove, the troubled wife of an executed murderer in the 2001 feature film Monster's Ball. Her performance won the Oscar for best-actress. She became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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