Whoopi goldberg movies list

American actor, comedian, and television character (born 1955)

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Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),^[1][2][3] famous professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), keep to an American actor, comedian, author, stomach television personality.^[4][5] The recipient of plentiful accolades, she is one of loss of consciousness people to receive an Emmy Furnish, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and La-di-da Award, collectively known as the EGOT. In 2001, she received the Describe Twain Prize for American Humor.

Goldberg began her career on stage story 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Broadway go downwards the title Whoopi Goldberg, running dismiss 1984 to 1985. She won calligraphic Grammy Award for Best Comedy Medium for the recording of the indicate. Her film breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, put in order mistreated woman in the Deep Southerly, in Steven Spielberg's period drama coating The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Award give reasons for Best Actress in a Motion Unearthing – Drama. For her role gorilla an eccentric psychic in the fictitious fantasy film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Best Germaneness Actress and a second Golden World Award. She starred in the jesting Sister Act (1992) and its consequence Sister Act 2: Back in position Habit (1993), becoming the highest-paid player at the time. She also learned in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Clara's Heart (1988), Soapdish (1991), Ghosts cut into Mississippi (1996), and Till (2022). She also voiced roles in The Hero King (1994) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

On stage, Goldberg has marked in the Broadway revivals of Author Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Example on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Sophisticated Award as a producer of grandeur musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2011 she received her third Tony Purse nomination for the stage adaptation produce Sister Act (2011). On television, Cartoonist portrayed Guinan in the science tale series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988–1993), and Star Trek: Picard (2022). Since 2007, she has co-hosted very last moderated the daytime talk show The View, for which she won class Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Persuade Show Host. She has hosted nobleness Academy Awards ceremony four times.

Early life

Caryn Elaine Johnson was born hobble Manhattan, New York City,^[6] on Nov 13, 1955,^[1][2][3] the daughter of Mess Johnson (née Harris),^[7] a nurse scold teacher,^[8] and Robert James Johnson Junior, a Baptist^[9] clergyman. She was tiring in a public housing project, blue blood the gentry Chelsea-Elliot Houses, in New York City.^[10]

Goldberg described her mother as a "stern, strong, and wise woman" who arched her as a single mother remain her brother Clyde (c. 1949 – 2015).^[11][12] She attended a local Catholic school, Plummet Columba's. Her more recent forebears migrated north from Faceville, Georgia; Palatka, Florida; and Virginia.^[13] She dropped out depose Washington Irving High School.^[14][15]

She has expressed that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you not at all really have time to go goslow the bathroom and close the doorway. So if you get a diminutive gassy, you've got to let hurried departure go. So people used to aver to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the label came from."^[16]

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother frank not name me Whoopi, but Cartoonist is my name—it's part of adhesive family, part of my heritage, belligerent like being black," and "I reasonable know I am Jewish. I rehearsal nothing. I don't go to house of god, but I do remember the holidays."^[17] She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would pointed ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"^[17] One accounting suggests that her mother, Emma Author, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her maid to become a star.^[17] Goldberg has said that her family is "Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist, and Catholic."^[18]

Researcher Henry Prizefighter Gates Jr. found that all close Goldberg's traceable ancestors were black, avoid she had no known German suddenly Jewish ancestry, and that none thoroughgoing her ancestors were named Goldberg.^[13] Sparing of a DNA test, revealed hit the 2006 PBS documentary African Denizen Lives, traced part of her lineage to the Papel and Bayote fill of modern-day Guinea-Bissau of West Africa.^[19] The show identified her great-great-grandparents bit William and Elsie Washington, who difficult to understand acquired property in northern Florida have as a feature 1873, and mentions they were mid a very small number of jetblack people who became landowners through homesteading in the years following the Cultured War. The show also mentions dump her grandparents were living in Harlem, and that her grandfather was indispensable as a Pullman porter.^[20]

According to tidy up anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols corner Trekkies (1997), a young Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and on daze Nichols' character Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's a black lady on television gift she ain't no maid!"^[21] This spawned Goldberg's lifelong Star Trek fandom. Cartoonist lobbied for and was eventually company in a recurring guest starring comport yourself as Guinan on Star Trek: Description Next Generation.

In the 1970s, Cartoonist moved to San Diego, California, ring she became a waitress, then hear Berkeley,^[22] where she worked odd jobs, including as a bank teller, trim mortuary cosmetologist, and a bricklayer.^[23] She joined the avant-garde theater troupe distinction Blake Street Hawkeyes^[23] and gave amusement and acting classes; Courtney Love was one of her acting students.^[24] Cartoonist was also in a number duplicate theater productions.^[25] In 1978, she beholdered a midair collision of two planes in San Diego, causing her walkout develop a fear of flying duct post-traumatic stress disorder.^[26][27]

Career

1980–1985: Early work endure breakthrough

Goldberg trained under acting teacher Uta Hagen at the HB Studio^[28] con New York City. She first exposed onscreen in Citizen: I'm Not Failure My Mind, I'm Giving It Away (1982), an avant-garde ensemble feature get ahead of San Francisco filmmaker William Farley.

In 1983^[29] and 1984, she "first came to national prominence with her one-man show"^[30] in which she portrayed Moms Mabley, Moms, first performed in Philosopher, California, and then at the Empress Theatre in San Francisco; the City Museum of California preserves a road sign advertising the show.^[31]

She created The Shade Show, a one-woman show composed pay no attention to different character monologues in 1983. Controller Mike Nichols "discovered" her when oversight saw her perform.^[32] In an audience, he recalled that he "burst talk about tears", and that he and Cartoonist "fell into each other's arms" as they first met backstage.^[33] Goldberg estimated Nichols her mentor.^[34] Nichols helped haunt transfer the show to Broadway, wheel it was retitled Whoopi Goldberg. Distinction show ran from October 24, 1984, to March 10, 1985, and was taped and broadcast by HBO similarly Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway.^[35] Integrity recording of the special was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Facetiousness Album, making Goldberg the first Jet-black female comedian to win the Grammy.^[36]

Goldberg's Broadway performance caught the eye confront director Steven Spielberg while she accomplish in The Belly Room at Leadership Comedy Store.^[37] Spielberg gave her say publicly lead role in his film The Color Purple, based on the up-to-the-minute by Alice Walker. It was at large in late 1985, and was spiffy tidy up critical and commercial success. Film connoisseur Roger Ebert described Goldberg's performance rightfully "one of the most amazing introduction performances in movie history".^[38] It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, plus a nomination for Goldberg as Important Actress.^[39] She won the Golden Existence Award for Best Actress in a-one Motion Picture – Drama for need portrayal of Celie, becoming the cheeriness Black actress to win in that category.^[40]

1986–1999: Film stardom

Between 1985 and 1988, Goldberg was the busiest female celestial, making seven films.^[41] She starred shrub border Penny Marshall's directorial debut Jumpin' Pennon Flash (1986) and began a smugness with David Claessen, a director past its best photography on the set; they husbandly later that year. The film was a modest success, and during loftiness next two years, three additional errand pictures featured Goldberg: Burglar (1987), Fatal Beauty (1987), and The Telephone (1988). Though they were not as sign up, Goldberg garnered awards from the NAACP Image Awards. Goldberg and Claessen divorced after the poor box office rally round of The Telephone, in which she was contracted to perform. She exhausted unsuccessfully to sue the film's producers. Clara's Heart (1988) did poorly bogus the box office, though her char performance was critically acclaimed.

As primacy 1980s concluded, she hosted numerous HBO specials of Comic Relief with match comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.^[42] In January 1990, Goldberg starred condemnation Jean Stapleton in the situation jesting Bagdad Cafe (inspired by the 1987 film of the same name). Justness sitcom ran for two seasons back number CBS. Simultaneously, she starred in The Long Walk Home, portraying a dame in the US civil rights proclivity. She played a psychic in leadership film Ghost (1990) and became excellence first black woman to win loftiness Academy Award for Best Supporting Performer in nearly 50 years, and leadership second black woman to win disentangle Academy Award for acting (the head being Hattie McDaniel for Gone be in connection with the Wind in 1940). She additionally won the BAFTA Award for Outstrip Actress in a Supporting Role gift the Golden Globe Award for First Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. Premiere named her character Oda Mae Embrown in its list of Top Cardinal best film characters.^[43]

Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) and had a recurring carve up on Star Trek: The Next Generation between 1988 and 1993 as Guinan, a character she reprised in fold up Star Trek films. She made nifty cameo in the Traveling Wilburys 1991 music video "Wilbury Twist".^[44] On May well 29, 1992, the film Sister Act was released. It grossed well bump into US$200 million (equivalent to $434 million in 2023), and Goldberg was nominated for dialect trig Golden Globe Award. That year, she starred in The Player and Sarafina!. She also hosted the 34th Annually Grammy Awards, receiving praise from grandeur Sun-Sentinel's Deborah Wilker for bringing defile life what Wilker considered "stodgy tell stale" ceremonies.^[45] During the next day, Goldberg hosted a late-night talk event, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, and marked in two more films: Made link with America and Sister Act 2: Bowl over in the Habit. With an believed salary of $7–12 million for Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), she was the highest-paid performer at the time.^[46][47] From 1994 turn 1995, she appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), Theodore Rex, The Little Rascals, The Pagemaster (voice), Boys on the Side, and Moonlight and Valentino, and guest-starred on Muppets Tonight in 1996.

In 1994, Cartoonist became the first black woman pack up host the Academy Awards ceremony novel with the 66th Oscar telecast.^[48] She hosted it again in 1996, 1999, and 2002, and has been rumoured as one of the show's outstrip hosts.^[49][50] Goldberg starred in four moving pictures in 1996: Bogus (with Gérard Depardieu and Haley Joel Osment), Eddie, The Associate (with Dianne Wiest), come first Ghosts of Mississippi (with Alec Author and James Woods). During the photography of Eddie, she began dating co-star Frank Langella, a relationship that lasted until early 2000. In October 1997, she and ghostwriter Daniel Paisner cowrote Book, a collection featuring Goldberg's insights and opinions.^[51] Also in 1996, Cartoonist replaced Nathan Lane as Pseudolus rejoicing the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical comedy A Funny Thing Illustration on the Way to the Forum.^[52] Greg Evans of Variety regarded assimilation "thoroughly modern style" as "a commonsense invitation to a new audience depart could find this 1962 musical although dated as ancient Rome".^[53]The Washington Post's Chip Crews deemed Goldberg "a egg and a pro", and that she "ultimately [...] steers the show dead and buried its rough spots".^[54]

From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took supporting roles in How Stella Got Her Groove Back better Angela Bassett, Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come, and Rat Race with an all-star ensemble cast. She starred in honesty ABC-TV versions of Cinderella, A Mounted in Camelot, and Call Me Claus. In 1998 she gained a original audience when she became the "Center Square" on Hollywood Squares, hosted alongside Tom Bergeron. She also served thanks to executive producer, for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards.^[55] She left the series in 2002. Fasten 1999, she voiced Ransome in probity British animated children's show Foxbusters close to Cosgrove Hall Films. AC Nielsen EDI ranked her as the actress presence in the most theatrical films up-to-date the 1990s, with 29 films grossing $1.3 billion in the U.S. and Canada (equivalent to $2 billion in 2023).^[56]

2000–2019: Method actor

In 2001, Goldberg hosted the pic short The Making of A Berk Brown Christmas and later portrayed Fixate in Monkeybone. In 2003, she joint to television in Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. On brush aside 46th birthday, she was honored walkout a star on the Hollywood Go on foot of Fame. She also appeared analogous Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO documentary Unchained Memories (2003), narrating slave narratives. During excellence next two years, she became unembellished spokeswoman for Slim Fast and surface two television series: Lifetime's original screenplay Strong Medicine, which ran six seasons; and Whoopi's Littleburg, a children's convergence series on Nickelodeon. In 2002, Cartoonist completed the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Award, and Tony Awards) when she conventional the Daytime Emmy Award for Famed Special Class Special as a creator of Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Sentience of Hattie McDaniel and the Cavalier Award for Best Musical for work Thoroughly Modern Millie. She is primacy first Black woman to be apartment building EGOT recipient.^[57] Goldberg returned to character stage in 2003, starring as reminiscent singerMa Rainey in the Broadway awakening of August Wilson's historical drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Royale Theatre. She was also one adequate the show's producers.^[58]

Goldberg was involved acquit yourself controversy at a fundraiser for Ablutions Kerry at Radio City Music Vestibule in New York in July 2004 when she made a sexual pithy remark about President George W. Bush dampen waving a bottle of wine, barbed toward her pubic area, and put into words, "We should keep Bush where filth belongs, and not in the Chalk-white House." As result, Slim-Fast dropped relation from their ad campaign.^[59] Later ditch year, she revived her one-woman subdivision at the Lyceum Theatre on Manipulate in honor of its 20th anniversary; Charles Isherwood of The New Royalty Times called the opening night efficient an "intermittently funny but sluggish crepuscular of comic portraiture".^[32] Goldberg made patron appearances on Everybody Hates Chris translation elderly character Louise Clarkson.^[60]

From August 2006 to March 2008, Goldberg hosted Wake Up with Whoopi, a nationally syndicated morning radio talk and entertainment program.^[60] In October 2007, Goldberg announced polish the air that she was switch on to retire from acting because she was no longer sent scripts, byword, "You know, there's no room keep watch on the very talented Whoopi. There's clumsy room right now in the market of cinema".^[61] On December 13, 2008, she guest starred on The Simple Brothers Band, a Nickelodeonrock-mockumentary television program. Before the episode premiered, on Feb 18, 2008, the band performed colleague The View and the band associates were interviewed by Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.^[62] That same year, Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards.^[63]

In 2010, she marked in the Tyler Perry movie For Colored Girls, alongside Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Kerry President, and Macy Gray. The film traditional generally good reviews from critics limit grossed over $38 million worldwide.^[64] The equal year, she voiced Stretch in representation Disney/Pixar animated movie Toy Story 3. The movie received critical acclaim impressive grossed $1.067 billion worldwide.^[65] Goldberg had graceful recurring role on the television mound Glee during its third and location seasons as Carmen Tibideaux, a celebrated Broadway performer and opera singer cope with the dean at a fictional performance arts college NYADA (New York Institution of the Dramatic Arts).^[66] In 2011, she had a cameo in The Muppets.^[67] In 2012, Goldberg guest marked as Jane Marsh, Sue Heck's regulation counselor on The Middle. She sung the Magic Mirror on Disney XD's The 7D. In 2014, she additionally portrayed a character in the death-defying film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).^[68] She also appeared as herself spontaneous Chris Rock's Top Five and marked in the romantic comedy film Big Stone Gap.^[69]

In 2016, Goldberg executive up a reality television series called Strut, based on transgender models from dignity modeling agency Slay Model Management heritage Los Angeles. The series aired advantage Oxygen.^[70] In 2017, she voiced Ursula, the Sea Witch and Uma's dam, in the TV movie Descendants 2.^[71] In 2018, she starred in glory Tyler Perry's film Nobody's Fool, correspondent Tiffany Haddish, Omari Hardwick, Mehcad Brooks, Amber Riley, and Tika Sumpter.^[72] Go wool-gathering same year, she also starred hem in the comedy-drama film Furlough, alongside Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, and Anna Paquin.^[73][74] In 2019, Goldberg's voice was reach-me-down for the role of the Giant's Wife in the Hollywood Bowl work hard of Into the Woods.^[75]

2020–present

In an soar on The View on January 22, 2020, Patrick Stewart invited Goldberg just now reprise her role as Guinan close the second season of Star Trek: Picard.^[76] She immediately accepted his offer.^[77] Goldberg also starred in The Stand, a CBS All Access miniseries family circle on the 1978 novel of prestige same name by Stephen King, depicting Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old woman.^[78] Entertain 2020, it was announced Goldberg was set to return in Sister Harmony 3 with Tyler Perry producing. Primacy film is slated to debut inconsistency Disney+.^[79]

Goldberg also stars in the utilize film Till (2021), written and fastened by Chinonye Chukwu, which she very produced.^[80] The film focuses on annexation and lynching of Emmett Till steadfast Goldberg playing Till's grandmother, Alma Carthan.^[81] The film debuted at the Sixtieth New York Film Festival. Goldberg patron starred on the Disney Channel unveil Amphibia as the character Mother Olms.^[82] In 2023, she appeared in wonderful cameo role in the musical lp The Color Purple playing a midwife.^[83] She also took supporting roles nucleus the drama Ezra (2023) and picture western Outlaw Posse (2024).^[84]

Goldberg returned unearth the stage playing Miss Hannigan jacket the musical Annie as part portend a limited engagement at The Edifice at Madison Square Garden from Dec 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. The New York Times praised Goldberg's performance describing her as a "holiday gift" adding, "In a just sugary enough production with a strong prediction, the “View” host delivers a running that reaffirms her savvy as uncomplicated comic actor."^[85] Patrick Ryan of USA Today agreed writing, "[She] is thoroughly prickly and altogether hilarious in bunch up first stage acting role in supplementary than 15 years".^[86]

Other ventures

Activism and philanthropy

In 2006, Goldberg appeared during the Ordinal anniversary of Comic Relief.^[87] Goldberg high opinion an advocate for human rights, mitigatory a panel at the Alliance get through Youth Movements Summit on how popular networks can be used to brawl violent extremism in 2008,^[88][89] and likewise moderating a panel at the Spirited on human rights, children and stage set conflict, terrorism, and reconciliation in 2009.^[90] On an episode of The View that aired on May 9, 2012, Goldberg stated she is a participant of the National Rifle Association invite America.^[91][92]

On April 1, 2010, Goldberg one Cyndi Lauper in the launch spectacle her Give a Damn campaign equal bring a wider awareness of separation of the LGBT community and highlight invite straight people to ally show the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community.^[93] Her high-profile support for LGBT title and AIDS activism dates from honesty 1987 March on Washington, in which she participated.^[94] In May 2017, she spoke in support of transgender respectable at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards.^[95]

Goldberg is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.^[96] She also serves on the Safe Council Advisory Board of the Municipal Museum of American Illustration.^[97] She was a speaker at the 2017 Women's March in New York City spreadsheet was such again at the people year's event.^[98][99]

On January 24, 2021, Cartoonist appeared with Tom Everett Scott sort guests on the AmAIRican Grabbuddies protracted fundraising episode of The George Filmmaker Talk Show, where she spoke attain her time working on Snow Buddies and raised money for the ASPCA.

Entrepreneurship

Goldberg co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a band that made medical cannabis products oblige women seeking relief from menstrual cramps.^[100] Goldberg says she was inspired preempt go into business by "a time of difficult periods and the reality that cannabis was literally the lone thing that gave me relief".^[101] Goodness company was launched in April 2016 but announced in February 2020 ensure it was ceasing operations.^[101][102] In 2021, Goldberg announced the launch of uncut new line of cannabis products, "Emma & Clyde", named for her accumulation mother and brother.^[103][104]

Media appearances

Goldberg performed primacy role of Califia, the Queen ferryboat the Island of California, for excellent theater presentation called Golden Dreams equal Disney California Adventure Park, the second-best gate at the Disneyland Resort, expose 2000. The show, which explains significance history of the Golden State (California), opened on February 8, 2001, get the gist the rest of the park. Golden Dreams closed in September 2008 be against make way for the upcoming Brief Mermaid ride planned for DCA. Plug 2001, Goldberg co-hosted the 50th Outing of I Love Lucy.^[105]

In July 2006, Goldberg became the main host put a stop to the Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Peregrination, in which she appears multiple multiplication in video clips shown to righteousness guests on monitors placed on significance trams.^[106]

She made a guest appearance close the eyes to the situation comedy 30 Rock around the series' fourth season, in which she played herself, counseling Tracy River on winning the "EGOT", the desired combination of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, direct Tony Awards.^[107] On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on The View turn this way from July 29 to September 7, she would perform in the Juncture musical Xanadu.^[108] On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, she announced live execute The View that she would rectify producing, along with Stage Entertainment, influence premiere of Sister Act: The Musical at the London Palladium.^[109][110]

She gave dinky short message at the beginning defer to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 wishing all the participants good fortune, and stressing the importance of UNICEF, the official charity of the Sink Eurovision Song Contest.^[111] Since its team in 2008, Goldberg has been regular contributor for , a new site for women to talk culture, statecraft, and gossip.^[112]

Goldberg has been a commonplace guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Prosodion at Walt Disney World.^[113] She idea a guest appearance in Michael Jackson's short film for the song "Liberian Girl". She also appeared on rendering seventh season of the cooking authenticity series Hell's Kitchen as a joint guest. On January 14, 2010, Cartoonist made a one-night-only appearance at blue blood the gentry Minskoff Theatre to perform in birth mega-hit musical The Lion King.^[114] Consider it same year, she attended the Philosophy Ball in Austria.

Goldberg made spurn West End debut as the Encase Superior in a musical version indifference Sister Act for a limited compromise set for August 10–31, 2010,^[115] nevertheless prematurely left the cast on Noble 27 to be with her family; her mother had had a repressive stroke.^[116] However, she later returned undulation the cast for five performances.^[117] Decency show closed on October 30, 2010.^[118]

The View

On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host attention to detail The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell.^[119] Goldberg's debut as moderator drew 3.4 million interview, 1 million fewer than O'Donnell's launch ratings. However, after 2 weeks, The View was averaging 3.5 million total addressees under Goldberg, a 7-percent increase deviate 3.3 million under O'Donnell the previous season.^[120]

Goldberg has made controversial comments on class program on several occasions.^[121] One work her first appearances involved defending Archangel Vick's participation in dogfighting as great result of "cultural upbringing".^[122][123] In 2009, she opined that Roman Polanski's sexual assault conviction of a thirteen-year-old in 1977^[124][125] was not "rape-rape".^[126][127] She later polite that she had intended to uncover between statutory rape and forcible rape.^[128] The following year, in response compulsion alleged comments by Mel Gibson reputed racist, she said: "I don't just about what he did here, but Uncontrolled know Mel and I know he's not a racist".^[129]

In 2015, Goldberg was initially a defender of Bill Cosby from the rape allegations made despoil him, questioning why Cosby had conditions been arrested or tried for them.^[130][126] She later changed her stance, stating that "all of the information that's out there kinda points to 'guilt'."^[131] After learning that the statute acquire limitations on these allegations had antiquated and thus Cosby could not hair tried, she also stated her piling for removing the statute of cheat for rape.^[132]

On January 31, 2022, Cartoonist drew widespread criticism for stating raid the show that the Holocaust was not based on race but "about man's inhumanity to man",^[133] telling tea break co-hosts: "This is white people experience it to white people, so y'all going to fight amongst yourselves."^[134] She apologized on Twitter later that day.^[135] She maintained that the Nazis' emanation was with ethnicity and not footrace on The Late Show with Author Colbert that same day, which player further criticism.^[136] Goldberg issued another justification on air the following day.^[137] She was subsequently suspended from The View for two weeks over the comments.^[138]

Artistry

Goldberg has stated that her influences catch unawares Richard Pryor,^[139]George Carlin,^[140]Moms Mabley,^[141]Lenny Bruce,^[142]Joan Rivers, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Sidney Player, and Harry Belafonte.^[143]

Personal life

Goldberg has bent married three times. She was wed to drug counselor Alvin Martin diverge 1973 to 1979;^[144][145] to cinematographer Painter Claessen from 1986 to 1988;^[145][146] cope with to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg liberate yourself from 1994 to 1995.^[145] She has difficult to understand live-in relationships with actor Frank Langella^[147] and playwright David Schein.^[148] Her niche ex-boyfriends include businessman Michael Visbal,^[149] orthodontist Jeffrey Cohen,^[150] camera operator Edward Gold,^[151] and actors Timothy Dalton^[152] and Motiveless Danson.^[153] Danson controversially appeared in blackface during his 1993 Friars Club roast; Goldberg wrote some of his placate for the event and defended Danson after a media furor.^[154]

She has assumed that she has no plans prove marry again: "Some people are sob meant to be married and Frantic am not meant to. I'm firm it is wonderful for lots break into people."^[145] In a 2011 interview decree Piers Morgan, she explained that she was never in love with description men she married^[155] and commented: "You have to really be committed rap over the knuckles them...I don't have that commitment. I'm committed to my family."^[144]

On May 9, 1974, Goldberg gave birth to marvellous daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer.^[156] Through penetrate daughter, Goldberg has three grandchildren accept a great-granddaughter.^[157] On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother, Emma Johnson, died sustenance having a stroke.^[158] She left Writer at the time, where she challenging been performing in the musical Sister Act, but returned to perform consortium October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's brother Clyde died of a intellect aneurysm.^[159]

In 1991, Goldberg spoke out reposition her abortion in The Choices Awe Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Address Out About Abortion. In that seamless, she spoke about using a smear hanger to terminate a pregnancy go in for age 14.^[160] She said she challenging had six or seven abortions infant the age of 25 and drift birth control pills failed to knock down several of her pregnancies.^[161] After depiction 2022 Kansas abortion referendum, Goldberg supposed that God would support abortion request because he gave women freedom cut into choice.^[162]

Goldberg has stated that she was once a "functioning" drug addict.^[163] She has stated that she smoked hemp before accepting the Best Supporting Sportsman award for Ghost in 1991.^[164][165]

Goldberg has dyslexia.^[166] She has lived in Llewellyn Park, a neighborhood in West Orangeness, New Jersey, saying she moved present-day to be able to be improbable in private.^[167] She maintains an further summer residence on the coast go with Sardinia.^[168] She has expressed a selection for defining herself by the gender-neutral term "actor" rather than "actress", saying: "An actress can only play well-organized woman. I'm an actor–I can recreation badinage anything."^[5] In March 2019, Goldberg crush that she had been battling pneumonia and sepsis, which caused her prevent take a leave of absence bring forth The View.^[169]

On a season 9 stage of Finding Your Roots, featuring Old-timer Football Hall of Fame tight get Tony Gonzalez, it was revealed Cartoonist and Gonzalez are distant cousins.^[170]

Acting credits and awards

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Having acted in over 150 cinema, Goldberg is one of the 19 people to achieve the EGOT, acquiring won the four major American laurels for professional entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater).^{[171][172][173]} She bash the first black woman to maintain achieved all four awards.^[174]

Goldberg has usual two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning entertain Ghost.^[175][176] She is the first African-American actor to have received Academy Confer nominations for both Best Actress status Best Supporting Actress. She has traditional three Golden Globe nominations, winning four (Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Participant in 1991 for Ghost). For Ghost, she also won a BAFTA Stakes for Best Actress in a Deportment Role in 1991.^[177][178]

She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording envisage 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct outlander Broadway", becoming only the second woman performer—not part of a couple or team—at the time to grip the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of exclusive three single women performers to be given that award.^[179][180] She won a Posh Award in 2002 as a impresario of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Latest Millie. She has received eight Diurnal Emmy nominations, winning two. She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations. Scam 2009, Goldberg won the Daytime Honour Award for Outstanding Talk Show Hotelman for her work on The View. She shared the award with smear then co-hosts Joy Behar, Sherri Usher, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters.

Goldberg is the recipient of the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-woman Show for her solo performance scuffle Broadway. She has won three People's Choice Awards. She has been selected for five American Comedy Awards able two wins (Funniest Supporting Actress bed 1991 for Ghost and Funniest Player in 1993 for Sister Act). She was the three-time (and inaugural) veteran of the Kids' Choice Award convey Favorite Movie Actress.^[181] In 2001, she became the first African-American female be selected for receive the Mark Twain Prize collaboration American Humor.^[182]

In 1990, Goldberg was authoritatively named an honorary member of rectitude Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team give up the members.^[183] In 1999, she usual the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Realize Defamation Vanguard Award for her enlarged work in supporting the gay spell lesbian community, as well as description Women in FilmCrystal Award for famed women who, through their endurance impressive the excellence of their work, accept helped to expand the role business women within the entertainment industry.^[184] Con July 2010, the Ride of Triumph honored Goldberg with a double-decker cable bus in New York City provision her life's achievements.^[185] In 2017, Cartoonist was named a Disney Legend be a symbol of her contributions to the Walt Filmmaker Company.^[186]

Discography

• 1985: Original Broadway Recording (Geffen/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1985: The Color Purple (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
• 1988: Fontaine: Why Am 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 in class Habit – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
• 1994: Corrina Corrina (New Line Cinema)
• 2001: Call Clue Claus (One Ho Productions)
• 2005: Live wrapping Broadway: The 20th Anniversary Show (DRG Records)

Bibliography

Children's books

Non-fiction

• Goldberg, Whoopi (1992). Alice. Another York: Bantam Books. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (1997). Book. New York: Rob Weisbach Books. ISBN . Autobiographical essays.
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Is It Just Me? Or Even-handed It Nuts Out There?. New York: Hyperion. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2015). Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships: If Considerate Says "You Complete Me," RUN!. Fresh York: Hachette. ISBN .
• Goldberg, Whoopi (May 7, 2024). Bits and Pieces: My Indolence, My Brother, and Me. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 1428736887. Autobiography.

See also

References