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Halle Berry Says Watching Black Actresses While Being Raised By A White Mother Was ‘Crucial’

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Being raised by a single white mother shaped Halle Berry, and so did watching Black actresses on film and television. In a clip from the upcoming PBS “American Masters” documentary on the Oscar-winning star, Berry opens up about the “crucial” impact she experienced from seeing women onscreen who looked like her. “I really struggled to to find images of Black women or women that I could identify with,” Berry says in the clip from the upcoming doc, “American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free”. “Early on, I remember seeing Lena Horne in ‘Stormy Weather’.

I remember seeing Dorothy Dandridge in ‘Carmen Jones’. And then a little after that, I remember seeing Diahann Carroll in ‘Julia’ and that just rearranged me, she explains RELATED: Halle Berry

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