Whoopi Goldberg
Acting
- Born:
- 1955-11-13
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race. She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Dolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash. Her latest role is the voice of Stretch in Toy Story 3. Goldberg has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television. She was co-producer of the popular game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004. She has been the moderator of the daytime talk show The View since 2007. Goldberg has a Grammy, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, a Tony, and an Oscar. In addition, Goldberg has a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
Known For
Filmography
Captain Zero: The Movie
Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk
Tribeca 25
Kevin
Leopardi & Co
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
Flower of the Dawn
Number One on the Call Sheet
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams
Like Tears in Rain
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Hollywood Black
Atrabilious
Group Therapy
Ezra
Babes
Butterfly in the Sky
Outlaw Posse
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
The Color Purple
Three Trees
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Commitment to Life
Our Barbara
My Father's Dragon
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Till
Music Is My Life: Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Cuomo
Sherri
Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20
Luck
Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
JANET JACKSON.
Harlem
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Hacks
The Story of Late Night
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
The Stand
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
The Con
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
The Drew Barrymore Show
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
My Darling Vivian
Staged
Feeding America Comedy Festival
Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Find Your Groove
Star Trek: Picard
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Godfather of Harlem
The Most Magnificent Thing
Cracked Up
The Tamron Hall Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Amphibia
Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
Desus & Mero
Lorena
Olympia
Nobody's Fool
Trump @War
Basketball: A Love Story
The Shop
Random Acts of Flyness
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Summer Camp Island
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
The Gospel According to André
Furlough
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Citizen Rose
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
The Problem with Apu
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
9/11
Descendants 2
The Nineties
The Truth Is in the Stars
Gilbert
A Very Sordid Wedding
When We Rise
King of the Dancehall
Rio
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Stinky & Dirty Show
The Tick
50 Years of Star Trek
Ask the Storybots
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Black Dog, Red Dog
The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Misery Loves Comedy
Top Five
Big Stone Gap
BoJack Horseman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The 7D
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Broad City
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
Blackfish
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Miracle Rising: South Africa
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
Radioman
666 Park Avenue
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Python Legs!
The Muppets
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Suburgatory
The Little Engine That Could
A Little Bit of Heaven
Bubble Guppies
For Colored Girls
Blue Bloods
Teenage Paparazzo
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
New York Street Games
Toy Story 3
The Black List: Volume Three
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
See You in September
The Middle
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Journey to the Stars
Kambakkht Ishq
Glee
Star Trek: The Captain's Summit
The Justin Lee Collins Show
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Madea Goes to Jail
RuPaul's Drag Race
Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren
Stream
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Descendants
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
Snow Buddies
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
The Sophisticated Misfit
The Word According to Whoopi
Elton 60: Live At Madison Square Garden
Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic
The Graham Norton Show
The Naked Brothers Band
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
Farce of the Penguins
Comic Relief 2006
30 Rock
Rachael Ray
Homie Spumoni
The One Show
Everyone's Hero
So NoTORIous
Doogal
The N Word
The Reichen Show
Everybody Hates Chris
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
The Aristocrats
Hell's Kitchen
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway
Racing Stripes
The Lion King 1½
The Tony Danza Show
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Entourage
The World of Nat King Cole
Pinocchio 3000
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Whoopi's Littleburg
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
Whoopi
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup 2002-2003 Champions
Declaration of Independence
Blizzard
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Real Time with Bill Maher
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Good Fences
Star Trek: Nemesis
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
The Hollywood Sign
Liberty's Kids
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
Searching for Debra Winger
Showboy
Making Rat Race
The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
Call Me Claus
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Rat Race
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Rescued from the Closet
Ghost: Remembering the Magic
Kingdom Come
Monkeybone
Golden Dreams
What Makes a Family
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
The Weber Show
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Strong Medicine
More Dogs Than Bones
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
Girl, Interrupted
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Foxbusters
Jackie's Back!
The Deep End of the Ocean
Alice in Wonderland
Our Friend, Martin
Alegría
Get Bruce!
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
The Rugrats Movie
A Knight in Camelot
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Junket Whore
Hollywood Squares
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Jackie Chan: My Story
Titey
Celebrity Deathmatch
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Creating Ragtime
A Christmas Carol
Cinderella
Bear in the Big Blue House
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
In & Out
Pitch
The View
Destination Anywhere
In the Gloaming
Classic Albums
Sports on the Silver Screen
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
The Chris Rock Show
Ghosts of Mississippi
The Associate
Pulp Comics
Bogus
Bordello of Blood
The Sunshine Boys
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Eddie
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Celluloid Closet
Muppets Tonight
TFI Friday
Theodore Rex
The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge
Comic Relief VII
MADtv
Moonlight and Valentino
The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Bonnie Raitt Has Something to Talk About
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Boys on the Side
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
The Pagemaster
Star Trek: Generations
Inside the Actors Studio
Corrina, Corrina
The Little Rascals
The Lion King
But... Seriously
Comic Relief VI
Liberation
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
A Cool Like That Christmas
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Naked in New York
The Nanny
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Aretha Franklin: Duets
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Made in America
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Sarafina!
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
Wisecracks
Sister Act
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Player
Defenders of Dynatron City
House Party 2
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
Chez Whoopi
Soapdish
The Long Walk Home
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Ghost
Comic Relief '90
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Bagdad Cafe
Celebrity Guide to Wine
Beverly Hills Brats
Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly
Homer and Eddie
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Tales from the Crypt
Kiss Shot
Comic Relief III
The Debbie Allen Special
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Free to Be... a Family
Clara's Heart
This Morning
Whoopi Goldberg's Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
The Telephone
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Fatal Beauty
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Dolly
A Different World
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later
Burglar
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin
The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite
Citizen Steve
Repairs
The Best of Comic Relief
Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Making of Captain EO
American Masters
Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show
Comic Relief
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
The Color Purple
Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
Night of 100 Stars II
Moonlighting
Muppet Babies
CBS Schoolbreak Special
Reading Rainbow
Wogan
Citizen
De TV Show
Wetten, dass..?
Saturday Night Live
People's Choice Awards
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Great Performances
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Sisters in Italy
Sister Act 3
Women Like Us
Anansi Boys
Saturday TV Funhouse