And later that year was named Miss Teen All-American, according to People.com. “In 1986, she won the Miss Ohio title before coming in first runner-up at the Miss USA pageant. She then featured in the 1986 Miss World competition, where she was the first Black woman to ever represent the USA in the pageant placing sixth.”
Berry was one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s, and has been involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. She has romantically been involved with baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, Gabriel Aubry and actor Olivier Martinez.
Berry was born to Judith Ann (née Hawkins), a white English nurse and father Jerome Jesse Berry, an African-American hospital attendant. The couple divorced when she was four.