In one of her more challenging roles, she played Frankie in ‘Frankie & Alice’ (2010) in which she portrayed a woman who suffers from dissociative identity disorder and has two alters
Over the next few years she acted in movies like ‘Catwoman’ (2004), ‘Robots’ (2005), and ‘Perfect Stranger’ (2007)
She played a psychiatrist in the supernatural thriller ‘Gothika’ in 2003 in which her character is accused of having murdered her husband and put behind bars
She got the chance of her lifetime when she was offered the role of Leticia Musgrove in the romantic drama ‘Monster’s Ball’ in 2001
In the 2000 superhero film, ‘X-Men’, Halle played the mutant Storm who can manipulate the weather
She was chosen to play Dorothy Dandridge in Martha Coolidge’s television film ‘Introducing Dorothy Dandridge’ in 1999
In 1995, she played a drug addict Khaila Richards in ‘Losing Isaiah’
He played the title role in ‘Alex Haley’s Queen’, a television miniseries that was aired in three installments in February 1993 on CBS
She made her film debut in 1991 in a minor role in Spike Lee’s ‘Jungle Fever’
Her other movies for the decade of 1990s include: ‘Executive Decision’ (1996), ‘BAPS’ (1997) and ‘Bulworth’ (1998)
She moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting in 1989
She was adjudged the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant in 1986
As a teenager she participated in several beauty pageants and won the Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986
