Halle Berry

Photographs by Antoine Verglas

Where you’ve seen her:
She caught our attention playing good girl to Robin Givens’ bad girl in Boomerang. She sizzled in The Rich Man’s Wife, conquered Warren Beatty in Bullworth, and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV movie, for playing screen legend Dorothy Dandridge on HBO. She shows off her beautiful curves all over TV as a Revlon model and blows us away as Storm in the X-Men.

Toe jam:
“People keep trying to get me into a studio, but I couldn’t rap any more than I could eat my own toes! I’m just going to stick to acting, thank you.”

Lips locked:
“I don’t want a guy getting anywhere near my lips on a first date…Even if you like someone right off the bat, it’s so much sexier to hold off a little. You don’t want to blow your wad on the first shot, right?”

Next time, we’ll pick up a video and be right over: “I like rain. Because in Los Angeles it’s almost always sunshiny, so when it rains it feels kind of special. That’s when I like to stay in bed, watch a movie, whatever.”

July 2000 (#31)