Halle Berry Marries Olivier Martinez in France
Never say never! After swearing off matrimony six years ago, actress Halle Berry said "I do" once again on Saturday. She tied the knot with French actor Olivier Martinez.
Berry and Martinez have been engaged since March 2012, when the gorgeous Halle was first seen flaunting an elegant diamond-and-emerald engagement ring. Martinez revealed the ring's designer is "real artist" Robert Mazlo, a jeweller from his Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood in Paris, whose family has been designing jewellery for "kings and queens for many centuries."
Halle Maria Berry (born on August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2013, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role.
Olivier Martinez comes from a working-class family, raised in the Paris suburbs. After some television shows, he reached the international market with The Horseman on the Roof (1995), billed in his American promotional tour for that movie as "the French Brad Pitt".
The wedding ceremony held in a village church where princes are buried in France's Burgundy region.
The owner of the Chateau de Vallery, where the couple stayed with their 60 guests, said on Sunday that the betrothal a day earlier ended with a dinner and an unusual fireworks display -- of water, fire, and snow -- in the chateau gardens. A wedding cake followed.
The actress -- 46 and pregnant -- and her 47-year-old husband "were very beautiful and very happy." The couple apparently spent two days at the Chateau de Vallery -- the standard rental period for weddings and other grand events the owner said.
Berry's publicist, Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, confirmed the marriage.
The happy couple headed for their romantic nuptials earlier this week and were spotted at LAX with Berry's daughter, Nahla, in tow. This marks the third marriage for Berry, who previously married to David Justice in 1993 and singer Eric Benét in 2001.
Congratulations are to the gorgeous and growing family!