In 1998, Halle Berry received praise for her role in Bulworth as an intelligent woman raised by activists who gives a politician (Warren Beatty) a new lease on life. The same year, she played the singer Zola Taylor, one of the three wives of pop singer Frankie Lymon, in the biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love. In the 1999 HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, she portrayed the first black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Halle Berry's performance was recognized with several awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
After Sarah Jessica Parker's parents divorce, her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive who was a part of Parker's life from an early age. Parker's mother was of English and German descent; through her mother, Sarah Jessica Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, one of the accused during the Salem witch trials. Parker's father, a native of Brooklyn, was of Eastern European Jewish background; his family's original surname was "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"). Parker has identified culturally and ethnically with her father's religion, Judaism, although she had no religious training. She has said that even while her family lived in Cincinnati, her mother emulated a New York lifestyle.
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