She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball , which made her the only woman of color to win a Best Actress Academy Award to date, as of Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the s and has been involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. She is also a Revlon spokesmodel. Before becoming an actress, she started modeling and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang , alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in films such as the comedy The Flintstones , the political comedy-drama Bulworth and the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge , for which she won the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, among many other awards.