Berry launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed, such as the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). For the latter, she received US$12.5 million.Ī varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first (and to date only) African-American woman and (for 21 years, the only) woman of color to have won the award. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.īerry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. or get in touch with me via the email link on this blog.Halle Maria Berry ( / ˈ h æ l i/ HAL-ee born Maria Halle Berry August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Anyone interested should contact Antoinette Fawcett through the Norman Nicholson Society. The workshop runs all day on Saturday the 15th September. I'm hoping to take participants of the workshop on a walk to look at the Poetry Stones, via Martindale and the Old Vicarage.Ĭockley Moor, the home of Helen Sutherland and the venue for the workshop. But the most important part of it was the landscape they were inhabiting - Lake Ullswater and the hills around it. This bringing together of painters and poets during the war years and just afterwards had a tremendous effect on all of them. It was owned by Helen Sutherland, a P & O heiress and a big patron of the arts.

Kathleen Raine was part of a group of artists and poets (which also included Ben Nicholson, Percy Kelly and David Jones) spending time at a house called Cockley Moor (later owned by Fred Hoyle) which overlooks Ullswater on the other side of the lake. The young Kathleen Raine - a lot of men, including Norman Nicholson, fell in love with her. The last line 'The world that you inhabit has not yet been created', strikes now with even greater force when we live in an age that is seriously interfering with the ongoing processes of creation. But she had a significant influence on twentieth century poetry and I still rate 'Shells' (which I know by heart) as one of the poems that best describes the sense of wonder and awe generated by contact with the living world (another would be Hopkins 'Pied Beauty'). I now find much of it just too abstract and fey. I'm not one of Kathleen Raine's greatest fans, though I loved her poetry as young girl. 'Words say, waters flow, Rocks weather, ferns wither, winds blow, times go,' from 'Night in Martindale' The lake is in my dream, The tree is in my blood, The past is in my bones, The flowers of the wood I love with long past loves.' from 'On Leaving Ullswater' 'human word Carved by our whispers in the passing air' from 'Night in Martindale' The inscriptions are weathered and mossy and the stones are not easy to see among the bracken. It's a short walk from her house to Sandwick on the shores of Ullswater and, as a memorial to her, lines from some of the poems she wrote while she was here are carved into stones in Hallinhag wood beside the lake. It's not easy to get to and the Old Vicarage she lived in still has no road to the door you have to walk across a field to get to it. Bliss!ĭuring the war Kathleen Raine lived in the remote hamlet of Martindale in the hills above Ullwater. We walked through the woods and had a picnic on one of the rocky promontories. It was a little damp, but not actually raining. It was a typical Lake District day - cloudy, occasional sun breaking through the clouds, and a stiff breeze blowing up white caps on the water.

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