Halle Berry turns 46

Black or White? That was her question. An African-American father and a Liverpudlian mother made this girl's complexion neither fit for a black neighbourhood nor a white one. Emerging from this racial difficulty came an Emmy-Golden Globe-Oscar winning actress. She's also the first African-American to enter the Miss World Beauty pageant.

Halle Berry, the Bond lady and the "Storm" of X-men, is one of the top 10 film stars, one of the highest paid at that, in the world today.

Here is a pictorial fact file on Halle Berry, who turns 46 today.