Zola Taylor
Zola Taylor
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Zola Taylor (HALLE BERRY) fell a tiny bit in love with Frankie Lymon (LARENZ TATE) the first time she saw him perform onstage. When he was singing, he was working magic with the audience, and it worked on Zola, too. She was beautiful, and a successful singer in her own right with the top-ranked group The Platters, but Frankie was something else -- a star. With songs like the smash hit Why Do Fools Fall In Love that he wrote and performed, he was going to make history. The day she became Mrs. Frankie Lymon was the happiest day of Zola's life.



Halle Berry recently starred opposite Warren Beatty in "Bulworth" and in the highly rated ABC miniseries "The Wedding." Berry continues her association with Revlon as an International Spokesperson.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry won a number of beauty crowns before embarking on an acting career. She made her critically praised film debut in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" as a streetwise crack addict. Her next roles were in Warner Bros.' "Strictly Business" and "The Last Boy Scout," and in "Boomerang" with Eddie Murphy.

Berry played the title role in Alex Hayley's miniseries, "Queen," the highest-rated sequel in television history, for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Best Actress and the Best Newcomer Award from the Hollywood Women's Press Organization. Her other credits include "Losing Isaiah," opposite Jessica Lange, and the Queen of Sheba in the Showtime production of "Solomon and Sheba" opposite Jimmy Smits, as well as "Race the Sun," "Executive Decision" (for which she won the Blockbuster Award for Best Actress in an Action Drama), the international hit "The Flintstones," "The Rich Man's Wife" and "B.A.P.S.," for director Robert Townsend.

The Harvard Foundation at Harvard University honored Berry as Cultural Artist of the Year in March of 1998. Berry next plans to star in and produce, with her manager Vincent Cirrincione, a movie about Dorothy Dandridge for HBO in the fall of 1998.


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