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Whoopi Goldberg is a Actor and Producer American born on 13 november 1955 at New York City (USA)
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), better known by her stage name Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈhwʊpi/), is an American actress, comedian, writer, social critic, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar. In the 1990s, Goldberg was rumored to be the highest paid actress for her appearances in film.
Her breakthrough role was playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Goldberg played Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore), in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was co-producer of the television game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2002. She has been the moderator of the daytime television talk show The View since 2007.
She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and, most famously, Ted Danson, who infamously appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no future plans to marry again, commenting "Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people." In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she never loved the men she married and commented "You have to really be committed to them. And I'm just—I don't have that commitment. I'm committed to my family." In an October 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Whoopi admitted that she did love one man, not in the show business industry, who died of AIDS after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion.
On May 9, 1974, when Goldberg was 18, she and Alvin Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer. Goldberg became a grandmother at the age of 34 when her then-sixteen-year-old daughter gave birth to a daughter, Amara Skye, on Goldberg's birthday. Granddaughter Jerzey followed on 7 February 1995 and grandson Mason on 28 September 1998. Goldberg became a great-grandmother on March 15, 2014 when her granddaughter gave birth to a daughter named Charli Rose Burr-Reynaud.
During an episode of The View in April 2010 she defended Jesse James, then-husband of Sandra Bullock, commenting, "It's nobody's fault. Maybe he was looking for something different," adding that she herself had cheated several times.
On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke. She left London at the time, where she had been performing in Sister Act the Musical, but returned to perform on October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's brother Clyde died of a brain aneurysm.
Goldberg has admitted publicly to having been a "high functioning" drug addict years ago, at one point being too terrified to even leave her bed to go use the toilet. She states that she smoked marijuana before accepting the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost in 1991. Goldberg has dyslexia.
Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Birth name Caryn Elaine Johnson
Nationality USA
Birth 13 november 1955 (68 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nationality USA
Birth 13 november 1955 (68 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), better known by her stage name Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈhwʊpi/), is an American actress, comedian, writer, social critic, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar. In the 1990s, Goldberg was rumored to be the highest paid actress for her appearances in film.
Her breakthrough role was playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Goldberg played Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore), in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was co-producer of the television game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2002. She has been the moderator of the daytime television talk show The View since 2007.
Biography
Goldberg has been married three times—in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter), on September 1, 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988), and on October 1, 1994 to the union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995).She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and, most famously, Ted Danson, who infamously appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no future plans to marry again, commenting "Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people." In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she never loved the men she married and commented "You have to really be committed to them. And I'm just—I don't have that commitment. I'm committed to my family." In an October 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Whoopi admitted that she did love one man, not in the show business industry, who died of AIDS after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion.
On May 9, 1974, when Goldberg was 18, she and Alvin Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer. Goldberg became a grandmother at the age of 34 when her then-sixteen-year-old daughter gave birth to a daughter, Amara Skye, on Goldberg's birthday. Granddaughter Jerzey followed on 7 February 1995 and grandson Mason on 28 September 1998. Goldberg became a great-grandmother on March 15, 2014 when her granddaughter gave birth to a daughter named Charli Rose Burr-Reynaud.
During an episode of The View in April 2010 she defended Jesse James, then-husband of Sandra Bullock, commenting, "It's nobody's fault. Maybe he was looking for something different," adding that she herself had cheated several times.
On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke. She left London at the time, where she had been performing in Sister Act the Musical, but returned to perform on October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's brother Clyde died of a brain aneurysm.
Goldberg has admitted publicly to having been a "high functioning" drug addict years ago, at one point being too terrified to even leave her bed to go use the toilet. She states that she smoked marijuana before accepting the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost in 1991. Goldberg has dyslexia.
Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.
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Filmography of Whoopi Goldberg (124 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Descendants 3 | Actress | |
| 2019 | I Am Mother | Actress | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2018 | Vice | Actress | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2018 | Nobody's Fool | Actress | Lola |
| 2017 | Descendants 2 | Actress | Ursula (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2017 | 9/11 | Actress | Metzie |
| 2016 | Big Stone Gap | Actress | Fleeta Mullins |
| 2016 | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years | Actress | Self |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Actress | Bernadette Thompson |
| 2014 | Top Five | Actress | Self |
| 2013 | Blackfish | Actress | Self |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Actress | Self |
| 2012 | Katy Perry: Part of Me | Actress | Self |
| 2012 | Sing Your Song | Actress | |
| 2011 | A Little Bit of Heaven | Actress | God |
| 2011 | The Muppets | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Actress | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | The Little Engine That Could | Actress | The Tower (voice) |
| 2011 | The Little Engine That Could | Actress | The Tower (voice) |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Actress | Stretch (voice) |
| 2010 | New York Street Games | Actress | |
| 2010 | Teenage Paparazzo | Actress | Self |
| 2010 | For Colored Girls | Actress | Alice / White |
| 2010 | See You in September | Actress | Lindsay's Therapist (uncredited) |
| 2009 | Kambakkht Ishq | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | Actress | Self |
| 2009 | Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants | Actress | Herself |
| 2008 | Mia and the Migoo | Actress | |
| 2008 | Snow Buddies | Actress | Miss Mittens (voice) |
| 2008 | Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins | Actress | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Descendants | Actress | Red Flower (voice) |
| 2008 | A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa | Actress | Taxi Driver |
| 2007 | Farce of the Penguins | Actress | Helen (voice) |
| 2007 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Actress | Mom |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Actress | Self |
| 2006 | The N Word | Actress | Herself |
| 2006 | Everyone's Hero | Actress | Darlin' (voice) |
| 2006 | Doogal | Actress | Ermintrude (voice) |
| 2005 | The Pacifier | Actress | |
| 2005 | The Magic Roundabout | Actress | Ermintrude |
| 2005 | Racing Stripes | Actress | Franny (voice) |
| 2005 | The Aristocrats | Actress | Self |
| 2004 | Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2004 | The Lion King 1½ | Actress | Shenzi (voice) |
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2004 | Pinocchio 3000 | Actress | Cyberina (voice) |
| 2003 | Pauly Shore Is Dead | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2003 | Blizzard | Actress | Blizzard (voice) |
| 2003 | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | Actress | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Good Fences | Actress, Producer | Mabel Spader |
| 2003 | The Piano Man's Daughter | Executive Producer | |
| 2003 | Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! | Actress | Self |
| 2002 | Star Trek: Nemesis | Actress | Guinan (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Actress | Self |
| 2002 | Showboy | Actress | Herself |
| 2002 | Madeline: My Fair Madeline | Actress | Miss Clavel (voice) |
| 2002 | It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie | Actress | Daniel's 'Boss' |
| 2001 | Mickey's House of Villains | Actress | Shenzi |
| 2001 | Golden Dreams | Actress | Califia, the Queen of California |
| 2001 | The Hollywood Sign | Actress | Woman at Funeral (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Kingdom Come | Actress | Raynelle Slocumb |
| 2001 | Monkeybone | Actress | Death |
| 2001 | Rat Race | Actress | Vera Baker |
| 2001 | Call Me Claus | Actress, Executive Producer | Lucy Cullins |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family | Actress, Executive Producer | Terry Harrison |
| 2000 | Girl, Interrupted | Actress | Valerie Owens |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Actress | Judge Cameo (uncredited) |
| 2000 | More Dogs Than Bones | Actress | Cléo |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Actress | Mrs. Peck (voice) |
| 1999 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Actress | Candy Bliss |
| 1999 | Get Bruce! | Actress | Self |
| 1999 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Actress | The Grand Banshee |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Actress | Cheshire Cat |
| 1999 | Jackie's Back! | Actress | Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's Sister) |
| 1998 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Actress | Ranger Margaret (voice) |
| 1998 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Actress | Stormella (voice) |
| 1998 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Actress | Delilah Abraham |
| 1998 | Junket Whore | Actress | |
| 1998 | Jackie Chan: My Story | Actress | Herself |
| 1998 | A Knight in Camelot | Actress | Dr. Vivien Morgan |
| 1997 | In & Out | Actress | Whoopi Goldberg (uncredited) |
| 1997 | A Christmas Carol | Actress | Spirit of Christmas Present (voice) |
| 1997 | Destination Anywhere | Actress | Cabbie |
| 1997 | In the Gloaming | Actress | Nurse Myrna |
| 1997 | Cinderella | Actress | Queen Constantina |
| 1997 | Pitch | Actress | Herself |
| 1997 | Destination Anywhere | Actress | Cabbie |
| 1996 | Bogus | Actress | Harriet Franklin |
| 1996 | Eddie | Actress | Eddie Franklin |
| 1996 | Bordello of Blood | Actress | Hospital Patient (uncredited) |
| 1996 | The Celluloid Closet | Actress | Self |
| 1996 | The Associate | Actress | Laurel Ayres |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Actress | Myrlie Evers |
| 1996 | The Sunshine Boys | Actress | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1995 | Boys on the Side | Actress | Jane Deluca |
| 1995 | Moonlight and Valentino | Actress | Sylvie Morrow |
| 1995 | Theodore Rex | Actress | Katie Coltrane |
| 1994 | The Little Rascals | Actress | Buckwheat's Mom |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Actress | Shenzi (voice) |
| 1994 | Star Trek: Generations | Actress | Guinan (uncredited) |
| 1994 | The Pagemaster | Actress | Fantasy (voice) |
| 1994 | Corrina, Corrina | Actress | Corrina Washington |
| 1993 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Actress | Billy York (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Made in America | Actress | Sarah Mathews |
| 1993 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Actress | Deloris Van Cartier |
| 1993 | Naked in New York | Actress | Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall |
| 1992 | The Player | Actress | Detective Avery |
| 1992 | Sister Act | Actress | Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence |
| 1992 | Sarafina! | Actress | Mary Masembuko |
| 1991 | House Party 2 | Actress | Professor (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Soapdish | Actress | Rose Schwartz |
| 1990 | The Long Walk Home | Actress | Odessa Cotter |
| 1990 | Ghost | Actress | Oda Mae Brown |
| 1989 | Homer and Eddie | Actress | Eddie Cervi |
| 1989 | Beverly Hills Brats | Actress | Self |
| 1989 | My Past Is My Own | Actress | Mariah Johnston |
| 1988 | Clara's Heart | Actress | Clara Mayfield |
| 1988 | The Telephone | Actress | Vashti Blue |
| 1987 | Burglar | Actress | Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr |
| 1987 | Fatal Beauty | Actress | Rita Rizzoli |
| 1986 | The Color Purple | Actress | Celie Harris Johnson |
| 1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Actress | Terry Dolittle |
| 1982 | Citizen | Actress |