A Berry good career that’s included television
Q: Someone told me that Halle Berry did another TV series besides “Extant.” Is that true? – Denise Floyd, Columbus, Ohio A: The first thing Berry did as a professional actress (after living in a New York homeless shelter for a time) was “Living Dolls,” an ABC spinoff of “Who’s the Boss?” about a modeling agency. The show lasted only a few months, but it set Berry on a path that also included a multiple-episode run on “Knots Landing” and – soon after that – the title role in the CBS miniseries “Alex Haley’s Queen.”
Though she’d make an occasional television appearance after that, including her Emmy-winning performance in the HBO drama “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,” Berry mostly stayed focused on her feature-film career (which encompassed her Oscar-winning performance in “Monster’s Ball,” her James Bond stint in “Die Another Day” and her involvement as Storm in the “X-Men” franchise) until her starring role on CBS’s “Extant” in the summers of 2014 and 2015. Q: I’ve seen Jill Wagner in a lot of Hallmark Channel movies. Was acting something she started after her time on “Wipeout”? – Stephen Davis, via e-mail A: She actually had done some acting before she started co-hosting the ABC obstacle-course game show, notably in the series version of “Blade” (which she also continued during the time she was doing “Wipeout”) and the movies “Junebug” and “Splinter.” Then, during a period when she left and then returned to “Wipeout,” she was featured on the television incarnation of “Teen Wolf.”