Born: August 14, 1968Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio (USA)Education: Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland (broadcast journalism)Additional Facts:Former teenage beauty queen, named after the department store Halle Brothers, who gave up a successful modeling career to become an actress in the late 1980s. She got her first break starring, appropriately enough, as a teenage model on the 1989 TV series, Living Dolls. Her harrowing performance as a crack addict in her first feature, Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), proved she was not just another model-turned-actress. That same year She landed her first starring roles: as a femme fatale in the romantic comedy Strictly Business and as Damon Wayans' stripper girlfriend in The Last Boy Scout. She has also played a recurring role on the TV perennial, Knots Landing.
