Halle Berry
The Oscar-winning actress entered several beauty pageants throughout the 1980s and won Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986.
In 1989, she moved to New York to pursue a modelling career and was shortly cast in the short-lived series ‘Living Dolls’.
Two years later, Berry landed her film debut in Spike Lee’s ‘Jungle Fever’ and became one of the highest-paid actresses in the world during the 2000s.