Editing Halle Berry (section)

===Early work and breakthrough (1989–1999)===
In 1989, Berry moved to [[New York City]] to pursue her acting ambitions.<ref name="Noelle">{{cite web| first=Noelle| last=Talmon| url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/Noelle_Talmon/2014/07/12/the_15_sexiest_black_actresses_in_holl| title=The 15 Sexiest Black Actresses In Hollywood| website=Starpulse.com| access-date=July 12, 2015| archive-date=May 20, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520080702/http://www.starpulse.com/news/Noelle_Talmon/2014/07/12/the_15_sexiest_black_actresses_in_holl| url-status=dead}}</ref> During her early time there, she ran out of money and briefly lived in a homeless shelter and a [[YMCA]].<ref name="CurrentBio1999">{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|year=1999|location=New York City|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0988-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiography1999clif/page/62 62–64]|url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiography1999clif/page/62}}</ref><ref>"Halle Berry: From homeless shelter to Hollywood fame" (April 2007). ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' (White Plains, New York USA: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.), p. 89: Reader's Digest: "Is it true that when you moved to New York to begin your acting career, you lived in a shelter?" Berry: "Very briefly. ... I wasn't working for a while."</ref><ref>''[[US Weekly]]'' (April 27, 2007). "Halle Berry was homeless. Berry slept at a shelter in NYC after her mom refused to send her money."</ref> Her situation improved by the end of that year, and she was cast in the role of model Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series ''[[Living Dolls]]'', which was shot in New York and was a spin-off of the hit series ''[[Who's the Boss?]]''.<ref name="CurrentBio1999" /> During the taping of ''Living Dolls'', she lapsed into a coma and was diagnosed with [[type 1 diabetes]].<ref>Pérez-Peña, Richard (May 17, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/nyregion/17diabetes.html Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic', Little Common Ground] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825155207/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/nyregion/17diabetes.html |date=August 25, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]''; accessed December 24, 2010.</ref><ref>Hoskins, Mike (April 25, 2013). [http://www.diabetesmine.com/2013/04/revisiting-the-great-halle-berry-diabetes-ruckus.html "Revisiting the Great Halle Berry Diabetes Ruckus"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107214130/http://www.diabetesmine.com/2013/04/revisiting-the-great-halle-berry-diabetes-ruckus.html |date=January 7, 2015 }}, DiabetesMine.com; accessed March 20, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diabetes.co.uk/celebrities/halle-berry.html|title=Halle Berry - Actress & Model with Type 1 Diabetes|website=www.diabetes.co.uk|date=January 15, 2019|access-date=February 15, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801193728/https://www.diabetes.co.uk/celebrities/halle-berry.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After the cancellation of ''Living Dolls'', she moved to Los Angeles.<ref name="CurrentBio1999" />

[[File:Halle Berry (46604499724).jpg|thumb|upright|Berry at the 1997 [[Essence Awards]]]]

Berry's film debut was in a small role for [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[Jungle Fever]]'' (1991), in which she played Vivian, a drug addict.<ref name="actors" /> That same year, Berry had her first co-starring role in ''[[Strictly Business (1991 film)|Strictly Business]]''. In 1992, Berry portrayed a career woman who falls for the lead character played by [[Eddie Murphy]] in the romantic comedy ''[[Boomerang (1992 film)|Boomerang]]''. The following year, she caught the public's attention as a headstrong [[biracial]] slave in the TV adaptation of ''[[Queen: The Story of an American Family]]'', based on the book by [[Alex Haley]]. Berry was also in the live-action ''[[The Flintstones (film)|Flintstones]]'' film as Sharon Stone, a sultry secretary who attempts to seduce [[Fred Flintstone]].<ref name="Sharon">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2002/oscars_2002/1814191.stm "Berry: Ripe for success"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226213845/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2002/oscars_2002/1814191.stm |date=February 26, 2009 }}, [[BBC News]], March 25, 2002; accessed February 19, 2007.</ref>

Berry tackled a more serious role, playing a former drug addict struggling to regain custody of her son in ''[[Losing Isaiah]]'' (1995), starring opposite [[Jessica Lange]]. She portrayed Sandra Beecher in ''[[Race the Sun (film)|Race the Sun]]'' (1996), which was based on a true story, shot in [[Australia]], and co-starred alongside Kurt Russell in ''[[Executive Decision]]''. Beginning in 1996, she was a [[Revlon]] spokeswoman for seven years and renewed her contract in 2004.<ref name="PSASNaSaR">{{cite news|first=Jennifer|last=Bayot|date=December 1, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/private-sector-a-shaker-not-a-stirrer-at-revlon.html|title=Private Sector; A Shaker, Not a Stirrer, at Revlon|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=December 23, 2007|archive-date=July 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721124633/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/private-sector-a-shaker-not-a-stirrer-at-revlon.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_17_25/ai_111648596 "Revlon&nbsp;– Supplier News&nbsp;– renewed its contract with actress Halle Berry; to introduce the Pink Happiness Spring 2004 Color Collection&nbsp;– Brief Article"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829090122/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_17_25/ai_111648596 |date=August 29, 2013}} (December 15, 2003), CNET Networks; accessed December 23, 2007.</ref>

She starred alongside Natalie Deselle Reid in the 1997 comedy film ''[[B.A.P.S.|B*A*P*S]]''. In 1998, Berry received praise for her role in ''[[Bulworth]]'' as an intelligent woman raised by activists who gives a politician ([[Warren Beatty]]) a new lease on life. The same year, she played the singer [[Zola Taylor]], one of the three wives of pop singer [[Frankie Lymon]], in the biopic ''[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]''.

In the 1999 [[HBO]] biopic ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Halle Berry Brings the Passion and Pain of Dorothy Dandridge to HBO Movie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60|work=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]]|date=August 23, 1999|access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref> she portrayed [[Dorothy Dandridge]], the first African American woman to be nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. It was to Berry a heartfelt project that she introduced, co-produced and fought intensely for it to come through.<ref name="actors" /> Berry won awards including a [[Primetime Emmy Award]] and [[Golden Globe Award]].<ref name="peo1" /><ref>Parish, James Robert (October 29, 2001). ''The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols'', Contemporary Books of McGraw Hill; {{ISBN|0-8092-2227-2}}</ref>