Halle Berry Net Worth
Halle Berry’s net worth is estimated to be around $90 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Halle Berry started out with humble beginnings and excelled in school. She became the runner-up for Miss USA in 1986 and moved to New York City to pursue acting in modeling. According to Us Weekly, she was homeless briefly but started her first stint in acting in the ABC television series Living Dolls. She made her film debut in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever where she played a drug addict. She earned her first big paycheck for $1 million to star in Executive Decision.
Berry starred in Swordfish where she was paid $2 million initially. Around this time, the media reported that her salary was upped by $500,000 so she could do a topless scene. Berry denied this to Cinema.com “Totally not true. I would sell these babies for way more money.”
She won her first Oscar for the movie Monster’s Ball where she was the first African-American woman to win Best Actress. “When [Monster’s Ball] came to me, I thought, okay, I’m getting no money to do this movie and it could either catapult my career or it could end it instantly,” she told Forbes. The sexual component to that movie was so risky and…I was so worried about being exploited and having people feel like I was being exploited, but at the end of the day, at my soul, I’m an artist.”
What may be Berry’s most top earning paycheck would be her starring role in Catwoman. She reportedly earned $14 million. Though a box office bomb, she explained how it affected her life when she won the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communication. “Everybody around me said, ‘Girl, don’t do it. It’s going to be the death of you. It’s going to end your career.’ But guess what I did? I followed my intuition and I did a movie called Catwoman and it bombed miserably,” Berry said. “While it failed to most people, it wasn’t a failure for me because I met so many interesting people that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, I learned two forms of martial arts and I learned not what to do.” She also added that she made “a shit-load of money that changed my life.”
