Is an African American actress, comedian and television host.
Birth Name: Caryn Elaine Johnson
Born: November 13, 1955 (age 60), Chelsea, New York City, New York, United States.
She starred in a popular one-woman production in 1983, and in 1985 she won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording. That year, Goldberg's success with The Color Purple launched a highly visible acting career. She won an Academy Award in 1991 for her performance in Ghost, and in 2007 she embarked on a lengthy run as moderator of the TV talk show The View.
Early Life:
With her trademark dreadlocks, wide impish grin and piercing humor, Goldberg is best known for her adept portrayals in both comedic and dramatic roles, as well as her groundbreaking work in the Hollywood film industry as an African-American woman. Goldberg unknowingly suffered from dyslexia, which affected her studies and ultimately induced her to drop out of high school at the age of 17.
Big Break:
In 1974 she worked as a mortuary beautician while pursuing a career in show business. During her stay in San Francisco, Whoopi Goldberg won a Bay Area Theatre Award for her portrayal of comedienne Moms Mabley in a one-woman show. In 1983, she starred in the enormously popular The Spook Show. The one-woman Off-Broadway production featured her own original comedy material that addressed the issue of race in America with unique profundity, style and wit.
By 1984, director Mike Nichols had moved The Spook Show to a Broadway stage, and in 1985, Goldberg won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of skits taken from the show. At the same time, she began to receive significant attention from Hollywood insiders. Director Steven Spielberg cast Goldberg in the leading female role of his 1985 production of The Color Purple. a film that went on to earn 10 Academy Awards and five Golden Globe nominations. Goldberg herself received an Oscar nomination and her first Golden Globe Award, for best actress.
Mainstream Success:
Since 1985, she has appeared in more than 80 film and television productions. Her early film credits include the spy comedy Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), directed by Penny Marshall; Fatal Beauty (1987), co-starring Sam Elliott; Clara's Heart (1988); Homer & Eddie (1989), co-starring James Belushi; and the civil rights period drama, The Long Walk Home (1990), co-starring Sissy Spacek. Goldberg first came to prominence with her starring role in El color púrpura (1985). She received much critical acclaim, and an Oscar nomination for her role and became a major star as a result, The role also garnered Goldberg her second Golden Globe, as well as the Black Entertainer of the Year Award from the NAACP.
These movies mostly were off-beat to formulaic comedies like Burglar (1987), The Telephone (1988) and Sálvese quién pueda (1986).
She made her mark as a household name and a mainstay in Hollywood for her Oscar-winning role in the box office smash Ghost: La sombra del amor (1990). Whoopi Goldberg was at her most famous in the early 1990s, making regular appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
Also in 1992, she starred in the enormously popular Sister Act as a world-weary lounge singer disguised as a nun hiding from the mob. Directed by Emile Ardolino, Sister Act, Cambio de hábito earned Goldberg an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a The surprising success of this film led to Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Cambio de hábito 2: Más locuras en el convento (1993), which featured Maggie Smith reprising her role as Mother Superior, as well as James Coburn Motion Picture, as well as another Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy.
Branching Out :
Launched her own television talk show, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, in 1992, the program ran for 200 episodes until 1993. That year, Goldberg also appeared in the feature film Made in America, Hecho en America , co-starring her then-boyfriend Ted Danson, and appeared in Sopa de jabón (1991).
As the late 1990s approached, Goldberg seemed to alternate between lead roles in straight comedies such as Eddie (1996) and La Socia principal (1996), and took supporting parts in more independent minded movies, such as El lado profundo del mar ,The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) with Michelle Pfeiffer, and La nueva vida de Stella (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), co-starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
Her most recent movies include El mundo está loco,loco (2001) and the quietly received El reino que se viene (2001). Goldberg contributes her voice to many cartoons, including El espadachín valiente (1994) and Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990), as Gaia. in 2006 she debuted a syndicated radio show, Wake Up With Whoopi. Goldberg appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), The Pagemaster (voice), Boys on the Side and Moonlight and Valentino. Goldberg guest starred on Muppets Tonight in 1996.
The View:
On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell, who stated on her official blog that she wanted Goldberg to be moderator. Goldberg's debut as moderator drew 3.4 million viewers, 1 million fewer than O'Donnell's debut ratings. After two weeks, however, The View was averaging 3.5 million total viewers under Goldberg, a 7% increase from 3.3 million under O'Donnell the previous season.
Her first appearance on the show was controversial when she made statements about Michael Vick's dogfighting as being "part of his cultural upbringing" and "not all that unusual" in parts of the South, on more than one occasion, Goldberg has expressed strong disagreement and irritation with different remarks made by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, such as on October 3, 2007
Dicography:
Personal Life:
Goldberg has been married three times—in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter), on September 1, 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988), and on October 1, 1994 to the union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995. She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella Timothy Dalton, and Ted Danson, who controversially appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no future plans to marry again, commenting "Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people." In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she never loved the men she married.
Awards and Honors:
Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. She is the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She is the recipient of the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her solo performance on Broadway. She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations, winning two. She has received five (non-daytime) Emmy nominations. She has received three Golden Globe nominations, winning two (Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost). She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway," becoming only the second woman at the time to receive the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of only three women to receive that award. Also for Ghost, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991.
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