When HBO decided to bring "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" to the small screen in 1999, there was only one logical choice for the lead role -- rising star Halle Berry. Like Dandridge, Berry was a ...

Berry played Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge was a 1999 movie based on the biographical Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Millis. Directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes, the movie starred Halle Berry as ...

Halle Berry is celebrating Dorothy Dandridge's 100th birthday. Berry shared a tweet that included a side-by-side of a young Dandridge and herself when she portrayed the trailblazing actress in the ...