Halle Berry
Halle Berry's
pageant titles include: Miss Teen All American, Miss Ohio-USA,
first runner-up to Miss USA 1986, and 4th runner-up to Miss World 1986.
S
he
won the coveted role of Queen in the Alex Hailey mini-series, Queen,
on the TV series Knots Landing and Living Dolls, and
starred in the movies Jungle Fever and The Flintstones.
She is the first African-American woman ever to win an
Academy Award
for her performance in the film, Monster's ball in 2002.
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2002 Academy
Award:
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Monster's Ball
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Lindsay Bloom
Bloom,
the 4th runner-up at Miss International, achieved fame playing sexy
blonds on TV sitcoms: Daisy on The Dukes of Hazards, Ray
Krebb's girlfriend on Dallas, and Vega$. Later, she dyed
her trademark blond tresses brunette to play Stacy Keach's sidekick,
Velda, on Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Delta Burke
One of
the best known "losers" at the Miss America Pageant, Delta competed as
Miss Florida in the 1974 contest. She failed to make the top ten after
performing her British dramatic recital about soon-to-be-executed
Queen Anne Boleyn, with a Southern
accent.
Later, she trademarked the role of former beauty queen as Suzanne Sugarbaker on the hit series, Designing Women,
and starred in Filthy Rich and Love and Curses and All That
Jazz.
Delta's other pageant titles included Miss Florida Flame, Miss
Veteran's Day, Miss Orlando Action Princess, and Miss All-American Girl.
This high school valedictorian and Stanford University student who had also
studied at Oxford University in England, Carlson was chosen as Miss American 1989. Competing as Miss Minnesota, she is the only
classical violinist to win and is credited with being one of the brightest titleholders ever.
Carlson began her broadcasting career as a political reporter for WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia. She then
served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas, TX, was an anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV in
Cleveland, OH, and for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. She went on to serve as a news correspondent for the CBS News and
co-anchor of the CBS Saturday Early Show.
