Halle Berry's factssheet: Date of Birth:August 1968 Place of Birth:Cleveland, Ohio Be famous for:Oscar-winning star of Monster's Ball

Halle Berry is the first African-American ever to win an Oscar as best actress. She won the award on 24 March 2002 for her starring role in the drama Monster's Ball

Billy Bob Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls for a recently executed inmate's widow (Halle Berry). Peter Boyle and Heath Leger play Thornton's father and son. The film was shot at "The Farm," Louisiana's infamous maximum-security penitentiary in the remote town of Angola.