We know that doesn’t qualify her as a “video vixen” but it makes for fun trivia nevertheless.
Berry’s rise to stardom was completely her own. Tenacious as she is beautiful, she took her runner-up status as Miss America and jetted to Chicago, New York and Hollywood to pursue her acting career, begging Spike Lee for the role of a crack addict in Jungle Fever alongside another breakthrough star, Samuel L. Jackson.
Berry’s perseverence paid off handsomely. She went on to eventually win an Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actor’s Guild Award and an NAACP Image Award for her production of, and starring role in, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. A few years later she would become the first, and still the only, African American female to win Best Actress for her performance in Monster’s Ball.
She remains one of the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and operates more from a production standpoint rather than in front of the screen these days. She is also a spokesperson for Revlon. So if you qualify Berry as a video vixen, then she is the most successful of the bunch, by far.
