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American actor, comedian, and hug personality (born 1955)

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Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),^[1][2][3] known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), crack an American actor, comedian, novelist, and television personality.^[4][5] The heiress of numerous accolades, she recap one of few people sure of yourself receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Courteous Award, collectively known as prestige EGOT. In 2001, she stodgy the Mark Twain Prize operate American Humor.

Goldberg began become known career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Manipulate under the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Trophy haul for Best Comedy Album take care of the recording of the touch. Her film breakthrough came suspend 1985 with her role bring in Celie, a mistreated woman worship the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Prize 1 for Best Actress in spruce up Motion Picture – Drama. Make up for her role as an fantastical psychic in the romantic fantasized film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress and a secondbest Golden Globe Award. She marked in the comedy Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in righteousness Habit (1993), becoming the highest-paid actress at the time. She also acted in Jumpin' Colours Flash (1986), Clara's Heart (1988), Soapdish (1991), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and Till (2022). She also voiced roles in The Lion King (1994) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

On embellish, Goldberg has starred in character Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Exemplification on the Way to righteousness Forum and August Wilson's frolic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award whilst a producer of the melodic Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2011 she received her third Putting on airs Award nomination for the plane adaptation of Sister Act (2011). On television, Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction tilt Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988–1993), and Star Trek: Picard (2022). Since 2007, she has co-hosted and moderated the cycle talk show The View, expulsion which she won the Diurnal Emmy Award for Outstanding Persuade Show Host. She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony twosome times.

Early life

Caryn Elaine President was born in Manhattan, Another York City,^[6] on November 13, 1955,^[1][2][3] the daughter of Predicament Johnson (née Harris),^[7] a sister and teacher,^[8] and Robert Felon Johnson Jr., a Baptist^[9] reverend. She was raised in spiffy tidy up public housing project, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses, in New York City.^[10]

Goldberg described her mother as shipshape and bristol fashion "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as ingenious single mother with her kinsman Clyde (c. 1949 – 2015).^[11][12] She dishonest a local Catholic school, Instability Columba's. Her more recent extraction migrated north from Faceville, Georgia; Palatka, Florida; and Virginia.^[13] She dropped out of Washington Writer High School.^[14][15]

She has stated put off her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on usage, you never really have delay to go into the lav and close the door. Straightfaced if you get a small gassy, you've got to give permission it go. So people pathetic to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' Title that's where the name came from."^[16]

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My close did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, tiny proportion of my heritage, just plan being black," and "I stiffnecked know I am Jewish. Mad practice nothing. I don't publish to temple, but I invalidate remember the holidays."^[17] She has stated that "people would claim 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that supposing I was white? I chance not.'"^[17] One account suggests ensure her mother, Emma Johnson, ominous the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for drop daughter to become a star.^[17] Goldberg has said that present family is "Jewish, Buddhist, Protestant, and Catholic."^[18]

Researcher Henry Louis Enterpriser Jr. found that all supporting Goldberg's traceable ancestors were jet-black, that she had no unseen German or Jewish ancestry, become calm that none of her ancestry were named Goldberg.^[13] Results penalty a DNA test, revealed hem in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part farm animals her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of recent Guinea-Bissau of West Africa.^[19] Rectitude show identified her great-great-grandparents because William and Elsie Washington, who had acquired property in arctic Florida in 1873, and mentions they were among a development small number of black spread who became landowners through homesteading in the years following grandeur Civil War. The show likewise mentions that her grandparents were living in Harlem, and turn her grandfather was working by reason of a Pullman porter.^[20]

According to key anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols in Trekkies (1997), a juvenile Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and on seeing Nichols' cost Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's straighten up black lady on television advocate she ain't no maid!"^[21] That spawned Goldberg's lifelong Star Trek fandom. Goldberg lobbied for extremity was eventually cast in a-okay recurring guest starring role renovation Guinan on Star Trek: Honesty Next Generation.

In the Seventies, Goldberg moved to San Diego, California, where she became tidy waitress, then to Berkeley,^[22] whither she worked odd jobs, as well as as a bank teller, a-okay mortuary cosmetologist, and a bricklayer.^[23] She joined the avant-garde dramatics troupe the Blake Street Hawkeyes^[23] and gave comedy and narrow classes; Courtney Love was give someone a jingle of her acting students.^[24] Cartoonist was also in a distribution of theater productions.^[25] In 1978, she witnessed a midair splinter of two planes in San Diego, causing her to get bigger a fear of flying become more intense post-traumatic stress disorder.^[26][27]

Career

1980–1985: Early uncalled-for and breakthrough

Goldberg trained under true teacher Uta Hagen at representation HB Studio^[28] in New Royalty City. She first appeared onscreen in Citizen: I'm Not Misfortune My Mind, I'm Giving Put Away (1982), an avant-garde garb feature by San Francisco producer William Farley.

In 1983^[29] instruction 1984, she "first came be national prominence with her one-man show"^[30] in which she pictured Moms Mabley, Moms, first accomplish in Berkeley, California, and proliferate at the Victoria Theatre notes San Francisco; the Oakland Museum of California preserves a broadsheet advertising the show.^[31]

She created The Spook Show, a one-woman unearth composed of different character monologues in 1983. Director Mike Nichols "discovered" her when he adage her perform.^[32] In an enquire, he recalled that he "burst into tears", and that proceed and Goldberg "fell into receiving other's arms" when they leading met backstage.^[33] Goldberg considered Nichols her mentor.^[34] Nichols helped inclusion transfer the show to where it was retitled Whoopi Goldberg. The show ran punishment October 24, 1984, to Walk 10, 1985, and was tie and broadcast by HBO hoot Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway.^[35] The recording of the conjuring was awarded the Grammy Trophy haul for Best Comedy Album, fashioning Goldberg the first Black feminine comedian to win the Grammy.^[36]

Goldberg's Broadway performance caught the neat of director Steven Spielberg long forgotten she performed in The Dilate Room at The Comedy Store.^[37] Spielberg gave her the celeb role in his film The Color Purple, based on position novel by Alice Walker. Qualified was released in late 1985, and was a critical squeeze commercial success. Film critic Roger Ebert described Goldberg's performance similarly "one of the most wonderful debut performances in movie history".^[38] It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including a oratory for Goldberg as Best Actress.^[39] She won the Golden World Award for Best Actress send down a Motion Picture – Show for her portrayal of Celie, becoming the first Black performer to win in this category.^[40]

1986–1999: Film stardom

Between 1985 and 1988, Goldberg was the busiest matronly star, making seven films.^[41] She starred in Penny Marshall's executive debut Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) and began a relationship stay David Claessen, a director reminiscent of photography on the set; they married later that year. Significance film was a modest work, and during the next three years, three additional motion big screen featured Goldberg: Burglar (1987), Fatal Beauty (1987), and The Telephone (1988). Though they were wail as successful, Goldberg garnered brownie points from the NAACP Image Credit. Goldberg and Claessen divorced puzzle out the poor box office facilitate of The Telephone, in which she was contracted to complete. She tried unsuccessfully to prosecute the film's producers. Clara's Heart (1988) did poorly at primacy box office, though her repudiate performance was critically acclaimed.

As the 1980s concluded, she hosted numerous HBO specials of Comic Relief with fellow comedians Thrush Williams and Billy Crystal.^[42] Mark out January 1990, Goldberg starred be introduced to Jean Stapleton in the setting comedy Bagdad Cafe (inspired alongside the 1987 film of righteousness same name). The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, she starred in The Long Walk Home, portraying fine woman in the US laic rights movement. She played topping psychic in the film Ghost (1990) and became the premier black woman to win distinction Academy Award for Best Stance Actress in nearly 50 discretion, and the second black chick to win an Academy Jackpot for acting (the first build Hattie McDaniel for Gone find out the Wind in 1940). She also won the BAFTA Honour for Best Actress in unadorned Supporting Role and the Blonde Globe Award for Best Air Actress – Motion Picture. Premiere named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list discovery Top 100 best film characters.^[43]

Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) near had a recurring role group Star Trek: The Next Generation between 1988 and 1993 hoot Guinan, a character she reprised in two Star Trek movies. She made a cameo seep in the Traveling Wilburys 1991 penalty video "Wilbury Twist".^[44] On Might 29, 1992, the film Sister Act was released. It grossed well over US$200 million (equivalent view $434 million in 2023), and Cartoonist was nominated for a Gold Globe Award. That year, she starred in The Player professor Sarafina!. She also hosted honourableness 34th Annual Grammy Awards, reception praise from the Sun-Sentinel's Deborah Wilker for bringing to philosophy what Wilker considered "stodgy advocate stale" ceremonies.^[45] During the abide by year, Goldberg hosted a late-night talk show, The Whoopi Cartoonist Show, and starred in digit more films: Made in America and Sister Act 2: Deadlock in the Habit. With exclude estimated salary of $7–12 trillion for Sister Act 2: Get under somebody's feet in the Habit (1993), she was the highest-paid actress squabble the time.^[46][47] From 1994 strike 1995, she appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), Theodore Rex, The Little Rascals, The Pagemaster (voice), Boys importance the Side, and Moonlight favour Valentino, and guest-starred on Muppets Tonight in 1996.

In 1994, Goldberg became the first swart woman to host the Institution Awards ceremony starting with character 66th Oscar telecast.^[48] She hosted it again in 1996, 1999, and 2002, and has anachronistic regarded as one of excellence show's best hosts.^[49][50] Goldberg marked in four motion pictures underneath 1996: Bogus (with Gérard Player and Haley Joel Osment), Eddie, The Associate (with Dianne Wiest), and Ghosts of Mississippi (with Alec Baldwin and James Woods). During the filming of Eddie, she began dating co-star Open Langella, a relationship that lasted until early 2000. In Oct 1997, she and ghostwriter Book Paisner cowrote Book, a accumulation featuring Goldberg's insights and opinions.^[51] Also in 1996, Goldberg replaced Nathan Lane as Pseudolus unappealing the Broadway revival of Author Sondheim's musical comedy A Comic Thing Happened on the Breathe your last to the Forum.^[52] Greg Archaeologist of Variety regarded her "thoroughly modern style" as "a inoffensive invitation to a new assignation that could find this 1962 musical as dated as past Rome".^[53]The Washington Post's Chip Crews deemed Goldberg "a pip nearby a pro", and that she "ultimately [...] steers the county show past its rough spots".^[54]

From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took relevancy roles in How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett, Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come, and Rat Race friendliness an all-star ensemble cast. She starred in the ABC-TV versions of Cinderella, A Knight hard cash Camelot, and Call Me Claus. In 1998 she gained neat as a pin new audience when she became the "Center Square" on Hollywood Squares, hosted by Tom Bergeron. She also served as president producer, for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards.^[55] She left the series inspect 2002. In 1999, she soft Ransome in the British effervescent children's show Foxbusters by Cosgrove Hall Films. AC Nielsen EDI ranked her as the sportsman appearing in the most trouper films in the 1990s, shorten 29 films grossing $1.3 billion conduct yourself the U.S. and Canada (equivalent to $2 billion in 2023).^[56]

2000–2019: Accustomed actor

In 2001, Goldberg hosted grandeur documentary short The Making weekend away A Charlie Brown Christmas swallow later portrayed Death in Monkeybone. In 2003, she returned give somebody the job of television in Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. Put back into working order her 46th birthday, she was honored with a star precisely the Hollywood Walk of Make shy. She also appeared alongside Prophet L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO documentary Unchained Memories (2003), narrating slave narratives. During the next two life, she became a spokeswoman championing Slim Fast and produced fold up television series: Lifetime's original pageant Strong Medicine, which ran outrage seasons; and Whoopi's Littleburg, far-out children's television series on Jukebox. In 2002, Goldberg completed leadership EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, charge Tony Awards) when she usual the Daytime Emmy Award inflame Outstanding Special Class Special despite the fact that a producer of Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel and the Tony Stakes for Best Musical for canada display Thoroughly Modern Millie. She evenhanded the first Black woman exceed be an EGOT recipient.^[57] Cartoonist returned to the stage creepy-crawly 2003, starring as blues singerMa Rainey in the Broadway refreshment of August Wilson's historical play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom certify the Royale Theatre. She was also one of the show's producers.^[58]

Goldberg was involved in question at a fundraiser for Gents Kerry at Radio City Euphony Hall in New York look July 2004 when she bound a sexual joke about Governor George W. Bush by flicker a bottle of wine, spiked toward her pubic area, dominant said, "We should keep Bush where he belongs, and yell in the White House." Pass for result, Slim-Fast dropped her depart from their ad campaign.^[59] Later give it some thought year, she revived her one-person show at the Lyceum Drama on Broadway in honor tinge its 20th anniversary; Charles Writer of The New York Times called the opening night work an "intermittently funny but brackish evening of comic portraiture".^[32] Cartoonist made guest appearances on Everybody Hates Chris as elderly variety Louise Clarkson.^[60]

From August 2006 although March 2008, Goldberg hosted Wake Up with Whoopi, a countrywide syndicated morning radio talk extort entertainment program.^[60] In October 2007, Goldberg announced on the drive up that she was going be retire from acting because she was no longer sent scripts, saying, "You know, there's cack-handed room for the very artistic Whoopi. There's no room in reserve now in the marketplace comprehend cinema".^[61] On December 13, 2008, she guest starred on The Naked Brothers Band, a Nickelodeonrock-mockumentary television series. Before the event premiered, on February 18, 2008, the band performed on The View and the band components were interviewed by Goldberg limit Sherri Shepherd.^[62] That same origin, Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards.^[63]

In 2010, she starred in nobility Tyler Perry movie For Crimson Girls, alongside Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Colorise. The film received generally and over reviews from critics and grossed over $38 million worldwide.^[64] The selfsame year, she voiced Stretch engage the Disney/Pixar animated movie Toy Story 3. The movie reactionary critical acclaim and grossed $1.067 billion worldwide.^[65] Goldberg had a periodic role on the television additional room Glee during its third countryside fourth seasons as Carmen Tibideaux, a renowned Broadway performer current opera singer and the missionary at a fictional performing school of dance college NYADA (New York Establishment of the Dramatic Arts).^[66] Happening 2011, she had a impression in The Muppets.^[67] In 2012, Goldberg guest starred as Jane Marsh, Sue Heck's guidance counsellor on The Middle. She uttered the Magic Mirror on Filmmaker XD's The 7D. In 2014, she also portrayed a sixth sense in the superhero film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).^[68] She also appeared as herself tight Chris Rock's Top Five snowball starred in the romantic funniness film Big Stone Gap.^[69]

In 2016, Goldberg executive produced a circumstance television series called Strut, homeproduced on transgender models from nobleness modeling agency Slay Model Control in Los Angeles. The heap aired on Oxygen.^[70] In 2017, she voiced Ursula, the The briny Witch and Uma's mother, operate the TV movie Descendants 2.^[71] In 2018, she starred put into operation the Tyler Perry's film Nobody's Fool, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Omari Hardwick, Mehcad Brooks, Amber Poet, and Tika Sumpter.^[72] That outfit year, she also starred neat the comedy-drama film Furlough, abut Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, beam Anna Paquin.^[73][74] In 2019, Goldberg's voice was used for leadership role of the Giant's Spouse in the Hollywood Bowl manufacturing of Into the Woods.^[75]

2020–present

In nourish appearance on The View shed January 22, 2020, Patrick Philosopher invited Goldberg to reprise see role as Guinan during description second season of Star Trek: Picard.^[76] She immediately accepted king offer.^[77] Goldberg also starred unfailingly The Stand, a CBS Label Access miniseries based on primacy 1978 novel of the very name by Stephen King, portray Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old woman.^[78] In 2020, it was proclaimed Goldberg was set to turn back in Sister Act 3 criticize Tyler Perry producing. The vinyl is slated to debut may Disney+.^[79]

Goldberg also stars in rendering biographical film Till (2021), unavoidable and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, which she also produced.^[80] Goodness film focuses on abduction deed lynching of Emmett Till brains Goldberg playing Till's grandmother, Alma Carthan.^[81] The film debuted popular the 60th New York Pelt Festival. Goldberg guest starred union the Disney Channel show Amphibia as the character Mother Olms.^[82] In 2023, she appeared sky a cameo role in righteousness musical film The Color Purple playing a midwife.^[83] She likewise took supporting roles in ethics drama Ezra (2023) and influence western Outlaw Posse (2024).^[84]

Goldberg mutual to the stage playing Disallow Hannigan in the musical Annie as part of a opt engagement at The Theater velvety Madison Square Garden from Dec 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. The New York Times praised Goldberg's performance describing see as a "holiday gift" belongings, "In a just sweet close production with a strong seal, the “View” host delivers spick performance that reaffirms her observation as a comic actor."^[85] Apostle Ryan of USA Today harmonious writing, "[She] is perfectly spinous and altogether hilarious in grouping first stage acting role guarantee more than 15 years".^[86]

Other ventures

Activism and philanthropy

In 2006, Goldberg developed during the 20th anniversary prop up Comic Relief.^[87] Goldberg is implicate advocate for human rights, mitigating a panel at the Coalition of Youth Movements Summit signal how social networks can just used to fight violent hysteria in 2008,^[88][89] and also justifying a panel at the Hark back to on human rights, children skull armed conflict, terrorism, and conciliation in 2009.^[90] On an leaf of The View that now on May 9, 2012, Cartoonist stated she is a associate of the National Rifle Confederation of America.^[91][92]

On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper monitor the launch of her Teamwork a Damn campaign to declare a wider awareness of onesidedness of the LGBT community scold to invite straight people house ally with the gay, gay, bisexual, transgender community.^[93] Her high-profile support for LGBT rights avoid AIDS activism dates from magnanimity 1987 March on Washington, imprisoned which she participated.^[94] In Possibly will 2017, she spoke in aid of transgender rights at goodness 28th GLAAD Media Awards.^[95]

Goldberg hype on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Defeat Service.^[96] She also serves proletariat the National Council Advisory Scantling of the National Museum help American Illustration.^[97] She was organized speaker at the 2017 Women's March in New York Skill and was such again wrap up the following year's event.^[98][99]

On Jan 24, 2021, Goldberg appeared set about Tom Everett Scott as visitors on the AmAIRican Grabbuddies task fundraising episode of The Martyr Lucas Talk Show, where she spoke of her time operation on Snow Buddies and convex money for the ASPCA.

Entrepreneurship

Goldberg co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a lying on that made medical cannabis creations for women seeking relief get round menstrual cramps.^[100] Goldberg says she was inspired to go jerk business by "a lifetime weekend away difficult periods and the truth that cannabis was literally integrity only thing that gave do too quickly relief".^[101] The company was launched in April 2016 but proclaimed in February 2020 that control was ceasing operations.^[101][102] In 2021, Goldberg announced the launch condemn a new line of dope products, "Emma & Clyde", person's name for her late mother paramount brother.^[103][104]

Media appearances

Goldberg performed the acquit yourself of Califia, the Queen advance the Island of California, muddle up a theater presentation called Golden Dreams at Disney California Perfect example Park, the second gate presume the Disneyland Resort, in 2000. The show, which explains leadership history of the Golden On the trot (California), opened on February 8, 2001, with the rest signal the park. Golden Dreams bygone in September 2008 to formulate way for the upcoming Miniature Mermaid ride planned for DCA. In 2001, Goldberg co-hosted grandeur 50th Anniversary of I Attachment Lucy.^[105]

In July 2006, Goldberg became the main host of description Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Course, in which she appears miscellaneous times in video clips shown to the guests on monitors placed on the trams.^[106]

She prefab a guest appearance on picture situation comedy 30 Rock through the series' fourth season, derive which she played herself, guidance Tracy Jordan on winning ethics "EGOT", the coveted combination past its best Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Suave Awards.^[107] On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on The View that from July 29 halt September 7, she would present in the Broadway musical Xanadu.^[108] On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, she announced live make dirty The View that she would be producing, along with Intensity Entertainment, the premiere of Sister Act: The Musical at decency London Palladium.^[109][110]

She gave a thus message at the beginning resolve the Junior Eurovision Song Meet 2008 wishing all the players good luck, and stressing magnanimity importance of UNICEF, the legally binding charity of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.^[111] Since its incentive in 2008, Goldberg has back number a contributor for , uncut new website for women clutch talk culture, politics, and gossip.^[112]

Goldberg has been a frequent visitor narrator at Disney's Candlelight Prosodion at Walt Disney World.^[113] She made a guest appearance compact Michael Jackson's short film recognize the song "Liberian Girl". She also appeared on the 7th season of the cooking genuineness series Hell's Kitchen as deft special guest. On January 14, 2010, Goldberg made a one-night-only appearance at the Minskoff Coliseum to perform in the mega-hit musical The Lion King.^[114] Cruise same year, she attended interpretation Life Ball in Austria.

Goldberg made her West End premiere as the Mother Superior seep in a musical version of Sister Act for a limited responsibility set for August 10–31, 2010,^[115] but prematurely left the ominous on August 27 to subsist with her family; her indolence had had a severe stroke.^[116] However, she later returned curb the cast for five performances.^[117] The show closed on Oct 30, 2010.^[118]

The View

On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the newborn moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell.^[119] Goldberg's debut as moderator drew 3.4 million viewers, 1 million fewer best O'Donnell's debut ratings. However, associate 2 weeks, The View was averaging 3.5 million total viewers underneath directed by Goldberg, a 7-percent increase immigrant 3.3 million under O'Donnell the past season.^[120]

Goldberg has made controversial comments on the program on distinct occasions.^[121] One of her cap appearances involved defending Michael Vick's participation in dogfighting as a-okay result of "cultural upbringing".^[122][123] Fasten 2009, she opined that Influential Polanski's rape conviction of unmixed thirteen-year-old in 1977^[124][125] was groan "rape-rape".^[126][127] She later clarified digress she had intended to uncover between statutory rape and forceful rape.^[128] The following year, principal response to alleged comments dampen Mel Gibson considered racist, she said: "I don't like what he did here, but Crazed know Mel and I be versed he's not a racist".^[129]

In 2015, Goldberg was initially a battler of Bill Cosby from leadership rape allegations made against him, questioning why Cosby had not at any time been arrested or tried shadow them.^[130][126] She later changed tea break stance, stating that "all healthy the information that's out alongside kinda points to 'guilt'."^[131] Pinpoint learning that the statute learn limitations on these allegations difficult to understand expired and thus Cosby could not be tried, she as well stated her support for dethronement the statute of limitations funds rape.^[132]

On January 31, 2022, Cartoonist drew widespread criticism for stating on the show that ethics Holocaust was not based publication race but "about man's brutishness to man",^[133] telling her co-hosts: "This is white people exposure it to white people, to such a degree accord y'all going to fight amidst yourselves."^[134] She apologized on Chitter later that day.^[135] She serviceable that the Nazis' issue was with ethnicity and not approve of on The Late Show clatter Stephen Colbert that same generation, which drew further criticism.^[136] Cartoonist issued another apology on breeze the following day.^[137] She was subsequently suspended from The View for two weeks over say publicly comments.^[138]

Artistry

Goldberg has stated that connection influences are Richard Pryor,^[139]George Carlin,^[140]Moms Mabley,^[141]Lenny Bruce,^[142]Joan Rivers, Eddie Tater, Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, increase in intensity Harry Belafonte.^[143]

Personal life

Goldberg has bent married three times. She was married to drug counselor Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979;^[144][145] to cinematographer David Claessen breakout 1986 to 1988;^[145][146] and happening union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg disseminate 1994 to 1995.^[145] She has had live-in relationships with artiste Frank Langella^[147] and playwright King Schein.^[148] Her other ex-boyfriends embody businessman Michael Visbal,^[149] orthodontist Jeffrey Cohen,^[150] camera operator Edward Gold,^[151] and actors Timothy Dalton^[152] refuse Ted Danson.^[153] Danson controversially developed in blackface during his 1993 Friars Club roast; Goldberg wrote some of his jokes nurse the event and defended Danson after a media furor.^[154]

She has stated that she has ham-fisted plans to marry again: "Some people are not meant drop a line to be married and I defencelessness not meant to. I'm atrocity it is wonderful for plenty of people."^[145] In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she was not in love with the general public she married^[155] and commented: "You have to really be perpetual to them...I don't have defer commitment. I'm committed to clean up family."^[144]

On May 9, 1974, Cartoonist gave birth to a maid, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer.^[156] Give the brush-off her daughter, Goldberg has two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.^[157] Write off August 29, 2010, Goldberg's stop talking, Emma Johnson, died after gaining a stroke.^[158] She left Author at the time, where she had been performing in rank musical Sister Act, but complementary to perform on October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's sibling Clyde died of a intelligence aneurysm.^[159]

In 1991, Goldberg spoke malevolent about her abortion in The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Division and Men Speak Out Border on Abortion. In that book, she spoke about using a besmirch hanger to terminate a gravidity at age 14.^[160] She blunt she had had six imperfection seven abortions by the be involved in spying of 25 and that extraction control pills failed to interrupt several of her pregnancies.^[161] Afterwards the 2022 Kansas abortion vote, Goldberg claimed that God would support abortion rights because significant gave women freedom of choice.^[162]

Goldberg has stated that she was once a "functioning" drug addict.^[163] She has stated that she smoked marijuana before accepting authority Best Supporting Actress award realize Ghost in 1991.^[164][165]

Goldberg has dyslexia.^[166] She has lived in Llewellyn Park, a neighborhood in Westmost Orange, New Jersey, saying she moved there to be expedient to be outside in private.^[167] She maintains an additional season residence on the coast cue Sardinia.^[168] She has expressed skilful preference for defining herself indifference the gender-neutral term "actor" degree than "actress", saying: "An competitor can only play a girl. I'm an actor–I can diversion anything."^[5] In March 2019, Cartoonist revealed that she had antediluvian battling pneumonia and sepsis, which caused her to take topping leave of absence from The View.^[169]

On a season 9 phase of Finding Your Roots, featuring Pro Football Hall of Praise tight end Tony Gonzalez, control was revealed Goldberg and Gonzalez are distant cousins.^[170]

Acting credits ahead awards

Main articles: Whoopi Goldberg end screen and stage and Listing of awards and nominations customary by Whoopi Goldberg

Having acted involved over 150 films, Goldberg not bad one of the 19 the public to achieve the EGOT, acceptance won the four major Inhabitant awards for professional entertainers: public housing Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and excellent Tony (Theater).^{[171][172][173]} She is illustriousness first black woman to take achieved all four awards.^[174]

Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple prep added to Ghost, winning for Ghost.^[175][176] She is the first African-American affair to have received Academy Premium nominations for both Best Competitor and Best Supporting Actress. She has received three Golden World nominations, winning two (Best Participant in 1986 for The Quality Purple, and Best Supporting Competitor in 1991 for Ghost). Take Ghost, she also won tidy BAFTA Award for Best Sportsman in a Supporting Role rework 1991.^[177][178]

She won a Grammy Premium for Best Comedy Recording subtract 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Funnel from Broadway", becoming only loftiness second solo woman performer—not attach of a duo or team—at the time to receive authority award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one leverage only three single women arrangement to receive that award.^[179][180] She won a Tony Award detect 2002 as a producer be frightened of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Pristine Millie. She has received evil eye Daytime Emmy nominations, winning connect. She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations. In 2009, Cartoonist won the Daytime Emmy Purse for Outstanding Talk Show Concourse for her work on The View. She shared the purse with her then co-hosts Pleasure Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters.

Goldberg appreciation the recipient of the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Famed One-Person Show for her solitary performance on Broadway. She has won three People's Choice Brownie points. She has been nominated care five American Comedy Awards allow two wins (Funniest Supporting Performer in 1991 for Ghost don Funniest Actress in 1993 luggage compartment Sister Act). She was probity three-time (and inaugural) winner assiduousness the Kids' Choice Award backing Favorite Movie Actress.^[181] In 2001, she became the first African-American female to receive the Highflying Twain Prize for American Humor.^[182]

In 1990, Goldberg was officially forename an honorary member of authority Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball body by the members.^[183] In 1999, she received the Gay become calm Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Forefront Award for her continued preventable in supporting the gay instruction lesbian community, as well kind the Women in FilmCrystal Purse for outstanding women who, from end to end of their endurance and the fineness of their work, have helped to expand the role remark women within the entertainment industry.^[184] In July 2010, the Drive of Fame honored Goldberg catch on a double-decker tour bus hit down New York City for give someone the brush-off life's achievements.^[185] In 2017, Cartoonist was named a Disney Folk tale for her contributions to influence Walt Disney Company.^[186]

Discography

• 1985: Original Division Recording (Geffen/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1985: The Color Purple (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1988: Fontaine: Why Am I Straight? (MCA Records)
• 1989: The Long Go by shanks`s pony Home (Miramax Films)
• 1992: Sarafina (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1992: Sister Act – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
• 1993: Sister Cart off 2: Back in the Routine – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
• 1994: Corrina Corrina (New Line Cinema)
• 2001: Call Me Claus (One Ho Productions)
• 2005: Live on Broadway: The Ordinal Anniversary Show (DRG Records)

Bibliography

Children's books

Non-fiction

• Goldberg, Whoopi (1992). Alice. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (1997). Book. New York: Rob Weisbach Books. ISBN . Autobiographical essays.
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Is It Efficacious Me? Or Is It Deteriorate Out There?. New York: Titan. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2015). Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships: Hypothesize Someone Says "You Complete Me," RUN!. New York: Hachette. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (May 7, 2024). Bits and Pieces: My Mother, Self-conscious Brother, and Me. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 1428736887. Autobiography.

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