Halle Berry was born  in Cleveland, Ohio, USA to African American father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and Caucasian mother Judith Berry.  She won several major beauty pageants and was the runner up in the Miss USA contest in 1986.. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model. It would eventually lead to her first weekly TV series, "Living Dolls" (1989). She then played a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991). The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang (1992). 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) (TV), 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.