So very Berry different! Halle looks almost unrecognisable in new Vogue shoot



She's played every role from a dowdy young woman in Monster's Ball to a sexy mutant with super powers in X-Men, and in her latest photo shoot Halle Berry has undergone another dramatic transformation.

The Oscar-winning star's sleek 1920s-style bob and elfin look are a far cry from the casual mum-about-town style she sports when out and about with two-year-old daughter Nahla.

The former Bond girl poses in a series of velvet gowns in the striking photos in this month's Vogue magazine.



Who's that girl? Halle Berry sports a flapper bob and a sleek elfin look in new issue of Vogue

In the accompanying interview Berry is candid about her break up earlier this year from former partner Gabriel Aubry and says she is optimistic about finding love in the future.



She told interview Jonathan Van Meter, 'I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

'I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.'

Hopeless romantic: Halle Berry hasn't given up on love, despite her breakup with model Gabriel Aubry earlier this year

Berry and Aubrey, 33, were together for 4 years and had daughter Nahla, 2, in 2008.



Of the breakup she said:'It’s just that you realise you are not meant to go the distance with everybody.



'We were meant to bring this amazing little person into the world. And I think that’s why we came together. And because of that, we are going to be together forever, all three of us. We are a family until we are not here any more.'

She continued, 'We have always been friends, we’re still friends, we love each other very much, and we both share the love of our lives. And we are both 100 percent committed to being the best parents we can be.



'And while it was not a love connection for us, he was absolutely the right person to have this child with because she is going to have an amazing father.'

Glamorous: the theatrical pictures show Berry modelling a series of impressive velvet gowns

Breaking her silence: this was Berry's first interview for three years

Despite the breakdown of the relationship, Berry insists that the couple's split was amicable.



'By the time it hit the papers – full of rumours and lies, with people having to make up problems between us – Gabriel and I had long dealt with it. We were done. And we were on a good foot, and we had decided what we were going to do for Nahla, and we were able to say, 'This will pass."'



Still a family: Berry, says that she, Aubry and Nahla, pictured here at Disneyland earlier this year, will always be 'together forever'

The Monster's Ball star, 43, is the first African-American woman to appear on the cover of the iconic magazine's September issue, which is considered in fashion circles to be the most important issue of the year.



The actress has taken something of a hiatus from the public eye with this being her first magazine interview for three years, in which she explains, 'I was burned-out with having other people tell the story about me that they wanted to tell. I told my publicist, "I’m not going to talk any more. I’m just going to live my life and be who I am."'



She did, however, make an exception for Vogue's September issue.

'What that means for a woman of colour and what that means in the fashion world, what that means to pop culture, there was no way I could say, "No I’m not going to be on the biggest issue of the year."'



Click here to read the full interview on Vogue.com

