Halle Berry has been rushed to hospital after suffering a "minor head injury" on the set of her new movie.

The Oscar-winner was taken to Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles by ambulance late on Tuesday night after she was hurt while shooting a fight sequence for upcoming thriller The Hive, reports X17.com.

She was later released after being checked out by doctors.

A representative for the mum-of-one told TMZ.com: "Halle Berry suffered a minor head injury while shooting a fight sequence on the set of her film, The Hive. She was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but she checked out healthy and was released."

The spokesperson added that Halle, 45, would "continue production as planned".

The Hive sees Halle play an emergency operator who takes a call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has been abducted and carried away in the boot of a car.

Source: Press Release