Halle Berry won an Academy Award for her role as a leading lady in what dramatic film?

Halle Berry is an Academy Award winning actress best known for her role in the 2001 romantic drama, Monster's Ball. She won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Leticia Musgrove. The quality of her acting in the movie received very high acclaim and resulted with her being the first black woman to win a Best Actress Academy Award. As of 2017, she is still the only black woman to have won an Oscar in this category.

Undeterred by the challenges faced in her personal life, in the year 2001 Berry obtained the most positive critical acclaim of her film career. In the dark drama Monster's Ball, Berry played the wife of a death row prisoner (Sean "Puffy" Combs) who becomes romantically involved with a racist prison guard (Billy Bob Thornton). This role earned her the type of substantial ongoing public acceptance that she had previously lacked.

Nowadays her personal life is still a work in progress. However with her professional career, she has skillfully been able to obtain high-profile roles in major films. For 2017 some films which star Halle Berry include: Kidnap (an American thriller); Kingsman: The Golden Circle (a spy action comedy); and Kings (a romance film). Now, the big hope is that critics will appreciate her work in these films.