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LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP via Getty ImagesAs Hollywood continues to mourn the late Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry wrote a tribute to her idol for Variety. As a biracial child, she said watching Poitier in the 1967 classic, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, about an interracial couple, changed her life. "For the first time in my childhood, I felt seen. Understood. Validated," she wrote. Halle will also never forget interviewing the iconic actor when she starred in the 1999 film, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. "I can't imagine anyone other than you bringing my dear friend Dorothy to the screen," he told her. "You embody the essence of who she was." In 2002, when Berry became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball, Poitier was in the balcony. "History will remember Sidney as a giant of the screen, a legendary actor and director, a performer whose enormous talents were eclipsed only by his kindness,

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