Stars Richard Gere and Halle Berry will receive 2006's Hasty Pudding award for a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment". Harvard Universty's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest undergraduate thespian club in the U.S., hands out the pudding award each year.
Actress Berry, who won an Oscar for her part in Monster's Ball, will lead a parade through Harvard next month. Gere won a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical, for his performance in the Oscar-winning film Chicago.
His best-known film work includes An Officer and a Gentleman, American Gigolo and Pretty Woman. Berry, 39, will reprise her role as Storm in the forthcoming X-Men sequel, X3, due to be released in May.
Last year's recipients were actors Tim Robbins and Catherine Zeta Jones . Other previous winners have included: Katharine Hepburn, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Anthony Hopkins, Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford.
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