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 Halle Berry gives birth to a baby girl (AP)

Halle Berry arrives at the 19th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif. in this Jan. 5, 2008 file photo. Berry told Oprah Winfrey on her show last year that playing a mother in her latest movie, 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' helped convince her that motherhood was for her. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)Halle Berry doesn't just play a mom in movies anymore.

The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl Sunday, and "is doing great," her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first child.

The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry. The two met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles two years ago.

Berry told Oprah Winfrey on her show last year that playing a mother in her latest movie, "Things We Lost in the Fire," helped convince her that motherhood was for her.

"I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother," Berry said. "It let me know that I must be a mother."

Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001's "Monster's Ball." She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999's "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge."

Berry had said she and Aubry don't plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.

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