Halle Berry: The Black Millionaire Blueprint for Success

By Terry Shropshire
Aug 27, 2012
8:39 am

Berry also won an Oscar for Best Actress for her starring role in Monster’s Ball and was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2001 for the same performance. Interestingly, Halle Berry is the only African-American actress to win a “Best Actress” Academy Award. Berry followed up her Oscar-winning performance in the most commercially successful James Bond movie ever — Die Another Day — opposite Pierce Brosnan.

Today, Berry continues act, though sporadically, and is currently employed as a spokeswoman for Revlon Cosmetics. She earns nearly $16 million a year making films, making her one of the highest-paid female actresses in the genre. She has a reported net worth of approximately $70 million, making her the wealthiest black actress in Hollywood.