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Actress Halle Berry may have won an Oscar, but she says she is frustrated at still having to convince movie studios of her ability because she is black. "It doesn't matter that I have an Oscar, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Silver (Berlin) Bear," Berry, who is pregnant with her first child, said during an interview at a Manhattan hotel to promote her new movie Things We Lost in the Fire. "I shouldn't have had to try so hard to be considered. I should have to stop convincing studios I am right for it -- it should be on my acting merit," she said. Berry was the first black woman to win an Academy Award for best actress, winning the 2002 Oscar for Monster's Ball. In her latest film she plays Audrey Burke, a widowed mother of two who asks her husband's friend, Jerry Sunborne, to live with them. She helps him overcome heroin addiction while Sunborne, played by Benicio Del Toro, helps her come to terms with her husband's death. Berry said her first que...

Halle Berry has received racist death threats to her unborn baby. The Oscar-winning beauty - who recently announced she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry - has been forced to hire security guards after allegedly receiving several disturbing letters from an anonymous writer. One note warned she and her child would be "cut into hundreds of pieces". A source close to the actress told Britain's Daily Mirror: "Halle does not normally use security but she has taken on a couple of guys to make sure." In 2002, Halle became the first woman of American African descent to win a best actress Oscar for her role in Monster's Ball. Despite the upsetting threats, Halle is enjoying her pregnancy, and her boyfriend Gabriel has revealed she is craving pickles and bread. The 32-year-old model told People magazine: "She does crave pickles. And any bread. Doesn't matter, as long as it's salt and pickles." Gabriel - who met 41-year-old Ha...