Heidi Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 6, 1964. She was the eldest child of Judith Ann Hawkins, a white English immigrant mother, and Jerome Jesse Berry, an African-American father. Halle Berry, her younger sister, is the mother of two children, including a son named Maceo Robert Martinez.
Heidi’s mother was born to Earl Ellsworth Hawkins and Nellie Dicken in Sawley, Derbyshire, England. She graduated from the MB School of Nursing and is currently a retired psychiatric nurse.
Her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was born in 1934 to a half-black and half-white household. He got a job as a porter at the same psychiatric hospital where his wife Judith was working. Both coworkers later fell in love and married.
Berry is also bi-racial in terms of heritage and holds an American passport.
