7 celebrities who competed at Miss USA, including Halle Berry and Olivia Culpo

Halle Berry competed at Miss USA before she became a Hollywood star.

Associated Press/Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images The 75th Miss USA pageant will take place in Miami on August 27.

We took a look back at celebrities who have competed on the Miss USA stage.

Halle Berry, Olivia Culpo, and Kenya Moore were all titleholders.

Before she won an Academy Award, Halle Berry was nearly Miss USA .

The iconic actor is among a star-studded group of women who used the 74-year-old pageant as their stepping stone to Hollywood.

These are the celebrities who have competed at Miss USA.

Halle Berry nearly won Miss USA in 1986.

Halle Berry at the Miss World 1986 pageant and with her best actress Oscar in 2001.

PA Images via Getty Images)/Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images Berry represented Ohio at Miss USA in 1986.

She was first runner-up to Miss Texas, Christy Fichtner, who was the first runner-up at Miss Universe .

If Fichtner had won, Berry would have inherited the Miss USA crown.

That same year, Berry was the first African-American woman to represent the USA at the Miss World competition.

She finished in sixth place.