Halle Berry

Named after a department store in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry was a Miss USA contestant before heading to Chicago to pursue modeling.

Her role in Spike Lee‘s Jungle Fever in 1991 put her on the map, but it wasn’t until her performances in X-Men (2000) as Storm and rolling around on the carpet with Billy Bob Thornton in the award-winning Monster’s Ball (2001) that she became a true superstar.

Berry has been a double-edged sword, capable of pulling off serious Oscar-winning performances and popcorn action roles at the same time.

For five years, Berry was married to pro baseball player David Justice, before entering a four-year marriage to R&B singer Eric Benet. The couple divorced in 2005.

Berry once dated Versace model Gabriel Aubry, with whom she welcomed daughter Nahla Ariela in March 2008. Berry married Olivier Martinez in France on July 13, 2013, but the couple divorced in 2016.