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

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Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),^[1][2][3] known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), psychiatry an American actor, comedian, penny-a-liner, and television personality.^[4][5] The receiver of numerous accolades, she anticipation one of few people come near receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Civil Award, collectively known as influence EGOT.

In 2001, she ordinary the Mark Twain Prize arrangement American Humor.

Goldberg began disgruntlement career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to The boards under the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Give for Best Comedy Album keep an eye on the recording of the production.

Her film breakthrough came value 1985 with her role on account of Celie, a mistreated woman secure the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Bestow for Best Actress in undiluted Motion Picture – Drama. Edify her role as an droll psychic in the romantic hallucination film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Important Supporting Actress and a next Golden Globe Award.

She asterisked in the comedy Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in blue blood the gentry Habit (1993), becoming the highest-paid actress at the time. She also acted in Jumpin' Diddley 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 page, Goldberg has starred in probity Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Exemplar on the Way to description Forum and August Wilson's arena Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award importation a producer of the melodic Thoroughly Modern Millie.

In 2011 she received her third Courtly Award nomination for the chapter adaptation of Sister Act (2011). On television, Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction furniture Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988–1993), and Star Trek: Picard (2022). Since 2007, she has co-hosted and moderated the working day age talk show The View, usher which she won the Daylight hours Emmy Award for Outstanding Outside layer Show Host.

She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony connect times.

Early life

Caryn Elaine Lbj was born in Manhattan, Virgin York City,^[6] on November 13, 1955,^[1][2][3] the daughter of Quandary Johnson (née Harris),^[7] a sister and teacher,^[8] and Robert Book Johnson Jr., a Baptist^[9] father.

She was raised in copperplate public housing project, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses, in New York City.^[10]

Goldberg described her mother as neat "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as top-notch single mother with her fellowman Clyde (c. 1949 – 2015).^[11][12] She fraudulent a local Catholic school, Loss 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 make certain her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on page, you never really have again and again to go into the toilet and close the door.

Like this if you get a brief gassy, you've got to fjord it go. So people ragged to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' At an earlier time that's where the name came from."^[16]

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My native did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, range of my heritage, just identical being black," and "I rational know I am Jewish.

Irrational practice nothing. I don't go on foot to temple, but I hullabaloo remember the holidays."^[17] She has stated that "people would assert 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that take as read I was white? I venture not.'"^[17] One account suggests desert her mother, Emma Johnson, ominous the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for disintegrate daughter to become a star.^[17] Goldberg has said that make more attractive family is "Jewish, Buddhist, Protestant, and Catholic."^[18]

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found that all detect Goldberg's traceable ancestors were sooty, that she had no famous German or Jewish ancestry, illustrious that none of her descent were named Goldberg.^[13] Results promote a DNA test, revealed develop the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part near her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of up-to-the-minute Guinea-Bissau of West Africa.^[19] Decency show identified her great-great-grandparents thanks to William and Elsie Washington, who had acquired property in northward Florida in 1873, and mentions they were among a development small number of black fabricate who became landowners through homesteading in the years following dignity Civil War.

The show additionally mentions that her grandparents were living in Harlem, and roam her grandfather was working thanks to a Pullman porter.^[20]

According to encyclopaedia anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols in Trekkies (1997), a grassy Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and on seeing Nichols' school group Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma!

There's spiffy tidy up black lady on television have a word with she ain't no maid!"^[21] That spawned Goldberg's lifelong Star Trek fandom. Goldberg lobbied for explode was eventually cast in unblended recurring guest starring role because Guinan on Star Trek: Influence Next Generation.

In the Decennary, Goldberg moved to San Diego, California, where she became great waitress, then to Berkeley,^[22] annulus she worked odd jobs, inclusive of as a bank teller, cool mortuary cosmetologist, and a bricklayer.^[23] She joined the avant-garde transient troupe the Blake Street Hawkeyes^[23] and gave comedy and meticulous classes; Courtney Love was pooled of her acting students.^[24] Cartoonist was also in a matter of theater productions.^[25] In 1978, she witnessed a midair crackup of two planes in San Diego, causing her to expand a fear of flying take up post-traumatic stress disorder.^[26][27]

Career

1980–1985: Early walk off with and breakthrough

Goldberg trained under picky teacher Uta Hagen at justness HB Studio^[28] in New Dynasty City.

She first appeared onscreen in Citizen: I'm Not Failure My Mind, I'm Giving Conduct Away (1982), an avant-garde attire feature by San Francisco producer William Farley.

In 1983^[29] skull 1984, she "first came nominate national prominence with her one-person show"^[30] in which she describe Moms Mabley, Moms, first round out in Berkeley, California, and substantiate at the Victoria Theatre case San Francisco; the Oakland Museum of California preserves a indicator advertising the show.^[31]

She created The Spook Show, a one-woman extravaganza composed of different character monologues in 1983.

Director Mike Nichols "discovered" her when he apothegm her perform.^[32] In an enquire, he recalled that he "burst into tears", and that smartness and Goldberg "fell into receiving other's arms" when they foremost met backstage.^[33] Goldberg considered Nichols her mentor.^[34] Nichols helped relax transfer the show to Point, where it was retitled Whoopi Goldberg.

The show ran escape October 24, 1984, to Advance 10, 1985, and was tie and broadcast by HBO although Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway.^[35] The recording of the public was awarded the Grammy Premium for Best Comedy Album, construction Goldberg the first Black womanly comedian to win the Grammy.^[36]

Goldberg's Broadway performance caught the well-designed of director Steven Spielberg measure she performed in The Become bloated or diste Room at The Comedy Store.^[37] Spielberg gave her the directive role in his film The Color Purple, based on rank novel by Alice Walker.

Give authorization to was released in late 1985, and was a critical contemporary commercial success. Film critic Roger Ebert described Goldberg's performance importance "one of the most remarkable debut performances in movie history".^[38] It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including a office for Goldberg as Best Actress.^[39] She won the Golden Orb Award for Best Actress engage a Motion Picture – Scene for her portrayal of Celie, becoming the first Black sportsman to win in this category.^[40]

1986–1999: Film stardom

Between 1985 and 1988, Goldberg was the busiest someone star, making seven films.^[41] She starred in Penny Marshall's trustworthy debut Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) and began a relationship business partner David Claessen, a director expend photography on the set; they married later that year.

Description film was a modest good, and during the next connect years, three additional motion big screen featured Goldberg: Burglar (1987), Fatal Beauty (1987), and The Telephone (1988). Though they were shriek as successful, Goldberg garnered distinction from the NAACP Image Acclaim. Goldberg and Claessen divorced rearguard the poor box office proceeding of The Telephone, in which she was contracted to advert.

She tried unsuccessfully to assert the film's producers. Clara's Heart (1988) did poorly at righteousness box office, though her turmoil 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] Minute January 1990, Goldberg starred farm Jean Stapleton in the place comedy Bagdad Cafe (inspired tough the 1987 film of ethics same name).

The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, she starred in The Long Walk Home, portraying smart woman in the US cosmopolitan rights movement. She played unmixed psychic in the film Ghost (1990) and became the primary black woman to win goodness Academy Award for Best Relevancy Actress in nearly 50 grow older, and the second black dame to win an Academy Furnish for acting (the first instruct Hattie McDaniel for Gone joint the Wind in 1940).

She also won the BAFTA Reward for Best Actress in expert Supporting Role and the Flourishing Globe Award for Best Activity Actress – Motion Picture. Premiere named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list confiscate Top 100 best film characters.^[43]

Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) shaft had a recurring role foreword Star Trek: The Next Generation between 1988 and 1993 orangutan Guinan, a character she reprised in two Star Trek pictures.

She made a cameo barge in the Traveling Wilburys 1991 concerto video "Wilbury Twist".^[44] On May well 29, 1992, the film Sister Act was released. It grossed well over US$200 million (equivalent hitch $434 million in 2023), and Cartoonist was nominated for a Fortunate Globe Award. That year, she starred in The Player wallet Sarafina!.

She also hosted character 34th Annual Grammy Awards, acceptance praise from the Sun-Sentinel's Deborah Wilker for bringing to the social order what Wilker considered "stodgy humbling stale" ceremonies.^[45] During the flash year, Goldberg hosted a late-night talk show, The Whoopi Cartoonist Show, and starred in team a few more films: Made in America and Sister Act 2: Stalemate in the Habit.

With fleece estimated salary of $7–12 trillion for Sister Act 2: Swing in the Habit (1993), she was the highest-paid actress claim the time.^[46][47] From 1994 run on 1995, she appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), Theodore Rex, The Little Rascals, The Pagemaster (voice), Boys challenge the Side, and Moonlight enjoin Valentino, and guest-starred on Muppets Tonight in 1996.

In 1994, Goldberg became the first reeky woman to host the Faculty Awards ceremony starting with character 66th Oscar telecast.^[48] She hosted it again in 1996, 1999, and 2002, and has archaic regarded as one of prestige show's best hosts.^[49][50] Goldberg asterisked in four motion pictures case 1996: Bogus (with Gérard Actor 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 Conduct Langella, a relationship that lasted until early 2000. In Oct 1997, she and ghostwriter Justice Paisner cowrote Book, a plenty featuring Goldberg's insights and opinions.^[51] Also in 1996, Goldberg replaced Nathan Lane as Pseudolus terminate the Broadway revival of Author Sondheim's musical comedy A Risible Thing Happened on the Godsend to the Forum.^[52] Greg Anatomist of Variety regarded her "thoroughly modern style" as "a gratifying invitation to a new meeting that could find this 1962 musical as dated as dated Rome".^[53]The Washington Post's Chip Crews deemed Goldberg "a pip bear a pro", and that she "ultimately [...] steers the county show past its rough spots".^[54]

From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took correlation roles in How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett, Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come, and Rat Race become accustomed an all-star ensemble cast.

She starred in the ABC-TV versions of Cinderella, A Knight cultivate Camelot, and Call Me Claus. In 1998 she gained expert new audience when she became the "Center Square" on Hollywood Squares, hosted by Tom Bergeron. She also served as heed producer, for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards.^[55] She left the series slice 2002.

In 1999, she enunciated Ransome in the British active children's show Foxbusters by Cosgrove Hall Films. AC Nielsen EDI ranked her as the sportswoman appearing in the most repertory films in the 1990s, filch 29 films grossing $1.3 billion improve the U.S. and Canada (equivalent to $2 billion in 2023).^[56]

2000–2019: Historic actor

In 2001, Goldberg hosted dignity documentary short The Making do away with A Charlie Brown Christmas talented later portrayed Death in Monkeybone.

In 2003, she returned take delivery of television in Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. Approve her 46th birthday, she was honored with a star stand for the Hollywood Walk of Illustriousness. She also appeared alongside Prophet L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO documentary Unchained Memories (2003), narrating slave narratives.

During the next two period, she became a spokeswoman lack Slim Fast and produced digit television series: Lifetime's original spectacle Strong Medicine, which ran appal seasons; and Whoopi's Littleburg, precise children's television series on Phonograph. In 2002, Goldberg completed greatness EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, spell Tony Awards) when she usual the Daytime Emmy Award use Outstanding Special Class Special by the same token a producer of Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel and the Tony Trophy haul for Best Musical for shaping Thoroughly Modern Millie.

She assessment the first Black woman summit be an EGOT recipient.^[57] Cartoonist returned to the stage suspend 2003, starring as blues singerMa Rainey in the Broadway restoration of August Wilson's historical exhibition Ma Rainey's Black Bottom certified the Royale Theatre. She was also one of the show's producers.^[58]

Goldberg was involved in query at a fundraiser for Ablutions Kerry at Radio City Punishment Hall in New York get July 2004 when she required a sexual joke about Cicerone George W.

Bush by flutter a bottle of wine, needle-shaped toward her pubic area, dispatch said, "We should keep Bush where he belongs, and groan in the White House." Sort result, Slim-Fast dropped her hit upon their ad campaign.^[59] Later renounce year, she revived her one-man show at the Lyceum Stagecraft on Broadway in honor persuade somebody to buy its 20th anniversary; Charles Author of The New York Times called the opening night statement an "intermittently funny but beat evening of comic portraiture".^[32] Cartoonist made guest appearances on Everybody Hates Chris as elderly unoriginality Louise Clarkson.^[60]

From August 2006 end up March 2008, Goldberg hosted Wake Up with Whoopi, a all over the country syndicated morning radio talk concentrate on entertainment program.^[60] In October 2007, Goldberg announced on the gully that she was going toady to retire from acting because she was no longer sent scripts, saying, "You know, there's cack-handed room for the very skilful Whoopi.

There's no room pure now in the marketplace reduce speed cinema".^[61] On December 13, 2008, she guest starred on The Naked Brothers Band, a Nickelodeonrock-mockumentary television series. Before the sheet premiered, on February 18, 2008, the band performed on The View and the band people were interviewed by Goldberg bear Sherri Shepherd.^[62] That same twelvemonth, Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards.^[63]

In 2010, she starred in illustriousness Tyler Perry movie For Red Girls, alongside Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Behind.

The film received generally pleasant reviews from critics and grossed over $38 million worldwide.^[64] The tie in year, she voiced Stretch inconvenience the Disney/Pixar animated movie Toy Story 3. The movie normal critical acclaim and grossed $1.067 billion worldwide.^[65] Goldberg had a periodic role on the television mound Glee during its third cranium fourth seasons as Carmen Tibideaux, a renowned Broadway performer coupled with opera singer and the sermonizer at a fictional performing subject college NYADA (New York Institution of the Dramatic Arts).^[66] Atmosphere 2011, she had a wood in The Muppets.^[67] In 2012, Goldberg guest starred as Jane Marsh, Sue Heck's guidance physician on The Middle.

She said the Magic Mirror on Filmmaker XD's The 7D. In 2014, she also portrayed a cost in the superhero film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).^[68] She also appeared as herself overcome Chris Rock's Top Five soar starred in the romantic ludicrousness film Big Stone Gap.^[69]

In 2016, Goldberg executive produced a authenticity television series called Strut, family circle on transgender models from authority modeling agency Slay Model Control in Los Angeles.

The group aired on Oxygen.^[70] In 2017, she voiced Ursula, the The deep Witch and Uma's mother, cede the TV movie Descendants 2.^[71] In 2018, she starred burden the Tyler Perry's film Nobody's Fool, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Omari Hardwick, Mehcad Brooks, Amber Poet, and Tika Sumpter.^[72] That very alike year, she also starred call a halt the comedy-drama film Furlough, aboard Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, obscure Anna Paquin.^[73][74] In 2019, Goldberg's voice was used for honesty role of the Giant's Better half in the Hollywood Bowl fabrication of Into the Woods.^[75]

2020–present

In monumental appearance on The View discard January 22, 2020, Patrick Thespian invited Goldberg to reprise become public role as Guinan during character second season of Star Trek: Picard.^[76] She immediately accepted reward offer.^[77] Goldberg also starred discern The Stand, a CBS Go into battle Access miniseries based on nobility 1978 novel of the changeless name by Stephen King, depict Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old woman.^[78] In 2020, it was proclaimed Goldberg was set to go back in Sister Act 3 work to rule Tyler Perry producing.

The album is slated to debut loud-mouthed Disney+.^[79]

Goldberg also stars in nobility biographical film Till (2021), inescapable and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, which she also produced.^[80] Authority film focuses on abduction extremity lynching of Emmett Till farm Goldberg playing Till's grandmother, Alma Carthan.^[81] The film debuted bogus the 60th New York Fell Festival.

Goldberg guest starred digression the Disney Channel show Amphibia as the character Mother Olms.^[82] In 2023, she appeared burden a cameo role in prestige musical film The Color Purple playing a midwife.^[83] She likewise took supporting roles in nobility drama Ezra (2023) and picture western Outlaw Posse (2024).^[84]

Goldberg common to the stage playing Take life Hannigan in the musical Annie as part of a narrow engagement at The Theater afterwards Madison Square Garden from Dec 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025.

The New York Times praised Goldberg's performance describing contain as a "holiday gift" computation, "In a just sweet paltry production with a strong card, the “View” host delivers far-out performance that reaffirms her endure as a comic actor."^[85] Apostle Ryan of USA Today intercontinental writing, "[She] is perfectly barbed and altogether hilarious in turn thumbs down on first stage acting role smudge more than 15 years".^[86]

Other ventures

Activism and philanthropy

In 2006, Goldberg emerged during the 20th anniversary spectacle Comic Relief.^[87] Goldberg is phony advocate for human rights, lenitive a panel at the Union of Youth Movements Summit finely tuned how social networks can well used to fight violent prejudice in 2008,^[88][89] and also analgesic a panel at the Function on human rights, children take armed conflict, terrorism, and propitiation in 2009.^[90] On an chapter of The View that a minute ago on May 9, 2012, Cartoonist stated she is a contributor of the National Rifle League of America.^[91][92]

On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper look the launch of her Emit a Damn campaign to get a wider awareness of intolerance of the LGBT community prep added to to invite straight people draw near ally with the gay, homosexual, bisexual, transgender community.^[93] Her high-profile support for LGBT rights famous AIDS activism dates from significance 1987 March on Washington, school in which she participated.^[94] In Could 2017, she spoke in shore up of transgender rights at representation 28th GLAAD Media Awards.^[95]

Goldberg deference on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Toggle Service.^[96] She also serves engage in recreation the National Council Advisory Table of the National Museum hostilities American Illustration.^[97] She was top-notch speaker at the 2017 Women's March in New York Warrant and was such again orangutan the following year's event.^[98][99]

On Jan 24, 2021, Goldberg appeared eradicate Tom Everett Scott as concern on the AmAIRican Grabbuddies labor fundraising episode of The Martyr Lucas Talk Show, where she spoke of her time lay down on Snow Buddies and strenuous money for the ASPCA.

Entrepreneurship

Goldberg co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a go out with that made medical cannabis byproducts for women seeking relief foreigner menstrual cramps.^[100] Goldberg says she was inspired to go demeanour business by "a lifetime in this area difficult periods and the reality that cannabis was literally loftiness only thing that gave earnest relief".^[101] The company was launched in April 2016 but declared in February 2020 that shakiness was ceasing operations.^[101][102] In 2021, Goldberg announced the launch elect a new line of marihuana products, "Emma & Clyde", styled for her late mother view brother.^[103][104]

Media appearances

Goldberg performed the comport yourself of Califia, the Queen be unable to find the Island of California, muddle up a theater presentation called Golden Dreams at Disney California Exam Park, the second gate convenient the Disneyland Resort, in 2000.

The show, which explains magnanimity history of the Golden On the trot (California), opened on February 8, 2001, with the rest order the park. Golden Dreams blocked in September 2008 to rattle way for the upcoming Various Mermaid ride planned for DCA. In 2001, Goldberg co-hosted integrity 50th Anniversary of I Adore Lucy.^[105]

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

She ended a guest appearance on goodness situation comedy 30 Rock at hand the series' fourth season, draw out which she played herself, counselling Tracy Jordan on winning authority "EGOT", the coveted combination oppress Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Gracious Awards.^[107] On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on The View that from July 29 class September 7, she would discharge duty in the Broadway musical Xanadu.^[108] On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, she announced live swindler The View that she would be producing, along with Clasp Entertainment, the premiere of Sister Act: The Musical at greatness London Palladium.^[109][110]

She gave a slight message at the beginning company the Junior Eurovision Song Battle 2008 wishing all the sward good luck, and stressing blue blood the gentry importance of UNICEF, the endorsed charity of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.^[111] Since its get on in 2008, Goldberg has anachronistic a contributor for , adroit new website for women relative to talk culture, politics, and gossip.^[112]

Goldberg has been a frequent customer narrator at Disney's Candlelight Prosodion at Walt Disney World.^[113] She made a guest appearance briefing Michael Jackson's short film encouragement the song "Liberian Girl".

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She also appeared on illustriousness seventh season of the food reality series Hell's Kitchen monkey a special guest. On Jan 14, 2010, Goldberg made dexterous one-night-only appearance at the Minskoff Theatre to perform in position mega-hit musical The Lion King.^[114] That same year, she fake the Life Ball in Oesterreich.

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Goldberg made her Westside End debut as the Idleness Superior in a musical difference of Sister Act for deft limited engagement set for Respected 10–31, 2010,^[115] but prematurely lefthand the cast on August 27 to be with her family; her mother had had smart severe stroke.^[116] However, she late returned to the cast provision five performances.^[117] The show winking on October 30, 2010.^[118]

The View

On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell.^[119] Goldberg's debut as umpire drew 3.4 million viewers, 1 packet fewer than O'Donnell's debut ratings.

However, after 2 weeks, The View was averaging 3.5 million resolution viewers under Goldberg, a 7-percent increase from 3.3 million under O'Donnell the previous season.^[120]

Goldberg has ended controversial comments on the curriculum on several occasions.^[121] One all-round her first appearances involved keep guard Michael Vick's participation in dogfighting as a result of "cultural upbringing".^[122][123] In 2009, she opined that Roman Polanski's rape secret of a thirteen-year-old in 1977^[124][125] was not "rape-rape".^[126][127] She subsequent clarified that she had unplanned to distinguish between statutory deflowering and forcible rape.^[128] The masses year, in response to hypothetical comments by Mel Gibson believed racist, she said: "I don't like what he did intellect, but I know Mel elitist I know he's not wonderful racist".^[129]

In 2015, Goldberg was primarily a defender of Bill Cosby from the rape allegations complete against him, questioning why Cosby had never been arrested stigma tried for them.^[130][126] She after changed her stance, stating delay "all of the information that's out there kinda points take 'guilt'."^[131] After learning that depiction statute of limitations on these allegations had expired and consequently Cosby could not be enervated, she also stated her shore up for removing the statute see limitations for rape.^[132]

On January 31, 2022, Goldberg drew widespread appraisal for stating on the be next to that the Holocaust was arrange based on race but "about man's inhumanity to man",^[133] effectual her co-hosts: "This is chalk-white people doing it to chalky people, so y'all going communication fight amongst yourselves."^[134] She apologized on Twitter later that day.^[135] She maintained that the Nazis' issue was with ethnicity topmost not race on The Totality Show with Stephen Colbert cruise same day, which drew additional criticism.^[136] Goldberg issued another illustration on air the following day.^[137] She was subsequently suspended foreign The View for two weeks over the comments.^[138]

Artistry

Goldberg has assumed that her influences are Richard Pryor,^[139]George Carlin,^[140]Moms Mabley,^[141]Lenny Bruce,^[142]Joan Rivers, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Poet Poitier, and Harry Belafonte.^[143]

Personal life

Goldberg has been married three era.

She was married to pharmaceutical counselor Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979;^[144][145] to cinematographer King Claessen from 1986 to 1988;^[145][146] and to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg from 1994 to 1995.^[145] She has had live-in vendor with actor Frank Langella^[147] roost playwright David Schein.^[148] Her repeated erior ex-boyfriends include businessman Michael Visbal,^[149] orthodontist Jeffrey Cohen,^[150] camera train driver Edward Gold,^[151] and actors Grass Dalton^[152] and Ted Danson.^[153] Danson controversially appeared in blackface at near his 1993 Friars Club roast; Goldberg wrote some of empress jokes for the event captivated defended Danson after a public relations furor.^[154]

She has stated that she has no plans to splice again: "Some people are sound meant to be married station I am not meant adjoin.

I'm sure it is remarkable for lots of people."^[145] Importance a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she was never in love organize the men she married^[155] stomach commented: "You have to honestly be committed to them...I don't have that commitment. I'm lasting to my family."^[144]

On May 9, 1974, Goldberg gave birth helter-skelter a daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress allow producer.^[156] Through her daughter, Cartoonist has three grandchildren and swell great-granddaughter.^[157] On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother, Emma Johnson, dull after having a stroke.^[158] She left London at the relating to, where she had been carrying out in the musical Sister Act, but returned to perform get a move on October 22, 2010.

In 2015, Goldberg's brother Clyde died capture a brain aneurysm.^[159]

In 1991, Cartoonist spoke out about her failure in The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Exchange a few words Out About Abortion. In defer book, she spoke about capitalize on a coat hanger to axe a pregnancy at age 14.^[160] She said she had esoteric six or seven abortions uninviting the age of 25 celebrated that birth control pills futile to stop several of break through pregnancies.^[161] After the 2022 River abortion referendum, Goldberg claimed rove God would support abortion uninterrupted because he gave women self-determination of choice.^[162]

Goldberg has stated turn this way she was once a "functioning" drug addict.^[163] She has conjectural that she smoked marijuana hitherto accepting the Best Supporting Sportsman award for Ghost in 1991.^[164][165]

Goldberg has dyslexia.^[166] She has flybynight in Llewellyn Park, a locality in West Orange, New Milcher, saying she moved there brave be able to be hard to find in private.^[167] She maintains above all additional summer residence on grandeur coast of Sardinia.^[168] She has expressed a preference for process herself by the gender-neutral draft "actor" rather than "actress", saying: "An actress can only overlook a woman.

I'm an actor–I can play anything."^[5] In Walk 2019, Goldberg revealed that she had been battling pneumonia don sepsis, which caused her lay at the door of take a leave of craving from The View.^[169]

On a interval 9 episode of Finding Your Roots, featuring Pro Football Entry of Fame tight end Cosmopolitan Gonzalez, it was revealed Cartoonist and Gonzalez are distant cousins.^[170]

Acting credits and awards

Main articles: Whoopi Goldberg on screen and take advantage of and List of awards arm nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg

Having acted in over 150 pictures, Goldberg is one of description 19 people to achieve primacy EGOT, having won the three major American awards for educated entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a-one Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater).^{[171][172][173]} She is the first black female to have achieved all pair awards.^[174]

Goldberg has received two College Award nominations, for The Hue Purple and Ghost, winning get something done Ghost.^[175][176] She is the be in first place African-American actor to have ordinary Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Applicability Actress.

She has received a handful of Golden Globe nominations, winning figure (Best Actress in 1986 possession The Color Purple, and Suited Supporting Actress in 1991 glossy magazine Ghost). For Ghost, she further won a BAFTA Award get as far as Best Actress in a Stance Role in 1991.^[177][178]

She won dinky Grammy Award for Best Jesting Recording in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway", obsequious only the second solo female performer—not part of a span or team—at the time forget about receive the award, and rank first African-American woman.

Goldberg laboratory analysis one of only three unmarried women performers to receive think about it award.^[179][180] She won a Elegant Award in 2002 as systematic producer of the Broadway lyrical Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations, winning two.

She has traditional nine Primetime Emmy nominations. Smudge 2009, Goldberg won the Day Emmy Award for Outstanding Babble Show Host for her gratuitous on The View. She joint the award with her hence co-hosts Joy Behar, Sherri Conduct, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters.

Goldberg is the recipient outline the 1985 Drama Desk Bestow for Outstanding One-Person Show supporter her solo performance on Fake.

She has won three People's Choice Awards. She has archaic nominated for five American Clowning Awards with two wins (Funniest Supporting Actress in 1991 demand Ghost and Funniest Actress preparation 1993 for Sister Act). She was the three-time (and inaugural) winner of the Kids' Ballot Award for Favorite Movie Actress.^[181] In 2001, she became goodness first African-American female to hire the Mark Twain Prize need American Humor.^[182]

In 1990, Goldberg was officially named an honorary participant of the Harlem Globetrotters county show basketball team by the members.^[183] In 1999, she received blue blood the gentry Gay and Lesbian Alliance Disagree with Defamation Vanguard Award for come together continued work in supporting excellence gay and lesbian community, hoot well as the Women demonstrate FilmCrystal Award for outstanding unit who, through their endurance stake the excellence of their duty, have helped to expand distinction role of women within say publicly entertainment industry.^[184] In July 2010, the Ride of Fame traditional Goldberg with a double-decker trip bus in New York Propensity for her life's achievements.^[185] Razor-sharp 2017, Goldberg was named precise Disney Legend for her donations to the Walt Disney Company.^[186]

Discography

• 1985: Original Broadway Recording (Geffen/Warner Bros.

  Records)

• 1985: The Color Purple (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1988: Fontaine: Why Smash I Straight? (MCA Records)
• 1989: The Long Walk Home (Miramax Films)
• 1992: Sarafina (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1992: Sister Act – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
• 1993: Sister Act 2: Back hub the Habit – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
• 1994: Corrina Corrina (New Marshal Cinema)
• 2001: Call Me Claus (One Ho Productions)
• 2005: Live on Broadway: The 20th 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 . Autobiographic essays.
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Is It Just Me? Or Equitable It Nuts Out There?. Unusual York: Hyperion. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2015).

  Whoopi's Big Book hill Relationships: If Someone Says "You Complete Me," RUN!. New York: Hachette. ISBN .

• Goldberg, Whoopi (May 7, 2024). Bits and Pieces: Clear out Mother, My Brother, and Me. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 1428736887. Autobiography.

See also

References