Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Birthday: 1955-11-13

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: Caryn Elaine Johnson, Whoopie Goldberg, 烏比·戈德堡, ووپی گُلدبرگ

imdb_id: nm0000155

Biography:

Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race. She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Dolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash. Her latest role is the voice of Stretch in Toy Story 3. Goldberg has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television. She was co-producer of the popular game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004. She has been the moderator of the daytime talk show The View since 2007. Goldberg has a Grammy, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, a Tony, and an Oscar. In addition, Goldberg has a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.

Played in movies:

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Score: 10.0

Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip

Score: 10.0

Find Your Groove

Score: 10.0

Citizen

Score: 10.0

Declaration of Independence

Score: 10.0

Our Barbara

Score: 10.0

The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert

Score: 10.0

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

Score: 10.0

Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later

Score: 10.0

But... Seriously

Score: 10.0

Sports on the Silver Screen

Score: 10.0

Chez Whoopi

Score: 10.0

Celebrity Guide to Wine

Score: 10.0

Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not

Score: 10.0

I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story

Score: 10.0

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

Score: 9.7

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Score: 9.3

Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin

Score: 9.3

Free to Be... a Family

Score: 9.3

Hanna-Barbera's 50th

Score: 9.2

Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale

Score: 9.0

The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge

Score: 9.0

The Most Magnificent Thing

Score: 8.6

Miracle Rising: South Africa

Score: 8.5

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

Score: 8.5

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

Score: 8.3

The Lion King

Score: 8.3

Butterfly in the Sky

Score: 8.2

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Score: 8.1

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Score: 8.1

A Cool Like That Christmas

Score: 8.0

Olympia

Score: 8.0

Wisecracks

Score: 8.0

Whoopi Goldberg's Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?

Score: 8.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20

Score: 8.0

Liberation

Score: 8.0

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Score: 8.0

Aretha Franklin: Duets

Score: 8.0

Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years

Score: 8.0

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

Score: 8.0

The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World

Score: 8.0

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

Score: 7.9

Blackfish

Score: 7.8

Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

Score: 7.8

Trump @War

Score: 7.8

Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic

Score: 7.8

Toy Story 3

Score: 7.8

Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show

Score: 7.7

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Score: 7.7

Luck

Score: 7.7

The Color Purple

Score: 7.7

The Long Walk Home

Score: 7.6

King of the Dancehall

Score: 7.6

Barry Humphries at the BBC

Score: 7.6

Girl, Interrupted

Score: 7.6

Like Tears in Rain

Score: 7.5

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Score: 7.5

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Score: 7.5

Black Dog, Red Dog

Score: 7.5

Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo

Score: 7.5

Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...

Score: 7.4

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life

Score: 7.4

The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut

Score: 7.3

Elton 60: Live At Madison Square Garden

Score: 7.3

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Score: 7.3

Descendants 2

Score: 7.3

Till

Score: 7.3

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Score: 7.2

Paul Simon: Under African Skies

Score: 7.2

Cracked Up

Score: 7.2

Katy Perry: Part of Me

Score: 7.2

Why We Laugh: Funny Women

Score: 7.2

The Player

Score: 7.2

Ghost

Score: 7.2

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

Score: 7.2

The Celluloid Closet

Score: 7.1

My Father's Dragon

Score: 7.1

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

Score: 7.1

The Truth Is in the Stars

Score: 7.1

Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly

Score: 7.1

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

Score: 7.0

The Color Purple

Score: 7.0

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Score: 7.0

Journey to the Stars

Score: 7.0

Teenage Paparazzo

Score: 7.0

Descendants

Score: 7.0

Comic Relief 2006

Score: 7.0

Ezra

Score: 7.0

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me

Score: 6.9

Our Friend, Martin

Score: 6.9

Destination Anywhere

Score: 6.8

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Score: 6.8

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

Score: 6.8

Defenders of Dynatron City

Score: 6.8

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Score: 6.8

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years

Score: 6.8

Sister Act

Score: 6.8

The Little Rascals

Score: 6.8

My Darling Vivian

Score: 6.8

Gilbert

Score: 6.7

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time

Score: 6.7

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Score: 6.7

The Making of Captain EO

Score: 6.7

Star Trek: The Captain's Summit

Score: 6.7

Corrina, Corrina

Score: 6.7

The Muppets

Score: 6.7

The N Word

Score: 6.6

Alegría: An Enchanting Fable

Score: 6.6

Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins

Score: 6.6

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Score: 6.6

For Colored Girls

Score: 6.6

Ghosts of Mississippi

Score: 6.6

The Lion King 1½

Score: 6.6

The Deep End of the Ocean

Score: 6.6

Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days

Score: 6.5

The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite

Score: 6.5

Madea Goes to Jail

Score: 6.5

Cinderella

Score: 6.5

Jackie's Back!

Score: 6.5

Star Trek: Generations

Score: 6.5

In & Out

Score: 6.5

Kingdom Come

Score: 6.5

The Pagemaster

Score: 6.4

50 Years of Star Trek

Score: 6.4

A Christmas Carol

Score: 6.4

A Little Bit of Heaven

Score: 6.4

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Score: 6.4

Boys on the Side

Score: 6.4

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

Score: 6.3

Searching for Debra Winger

Score: 6.3

The Gospel According to André

Score: 6.3

Pitch

Score: 6.3

Star Trek: Nemesis

Score: 6.3

Rat Race

Score: 6.3

Jackie Chan: My Story

Score: 6.3

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Score: 6.2

What Makes a Family

Score: 6.2

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.2

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

Score: 6.2

The Little Engine That Could

Score: 6.2

Get Bruce!

Score: 6.2

The Rugrats Movie

Score: 6.2

Soapdish

Score: 6.2

The Associate

Score: 6.2

Snow Buddies

Score: 6.1

Nobody's Fool

Score: 6.1

Sarafina!

Score: 6.1

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

Score: 6.1

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Score: 6.1

Top Five

Score: 6.1

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

Score: 6.1

Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest

Score: 6.0

Rescued from the Closet

Score: 6.0

The Making of 'The Pagemaster'

Score: 6.0

The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

Score: 6.0

Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special

Score: 6.0

Misery Loves Comedy

Score: 6.0

Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising

Score: 6.0

Ghost: Remembering the Magic

Score: 6.0

Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce

Score: 6.0

Everyone's Hero

Score: 6.0

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Score: 6.0

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Score: 6.0

A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

Score: 6.0

Babes

Score: 6.0

Bordello of Blood

Score: 5.9

Blizzard

Score: 5.9

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

Score: 5.9

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Score: 5.9

Racing Stripes

Score: 5.9

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Score: 5.9

Kiss Shot

Score: 5.9

The Aristocrats

Score: 5.9

Citizen Steve

Score: 5.9

In the Gloaming

Score: 5.9

Big Stone Gap

Score: 5.9

Feeding America Comedy Festival

Score: 5.8

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Score: 5.8

Bogus

Score: 5.8

Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway

Score: 5.8

Good Fences

Score: 5.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Score: 5.7

Furlough

Score: 5.7

Radioman

Score: 5.7

Madeline: My Fair Madeline

Score: 5.7

Call Me Claus

Score: 5.7

Homer and Eddie

Score: 5.5

Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway

Score: 5.5

Moonlight and Valentino

Score: 5.5

Fatal Beauty

Score: 5.5

Made in America

Score: 5.5

A Knight in Camelot

Score: 5.5

Eddie

Score: 5.5

Clara's Heart

Score: 5.4

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

Score: 5.4

A Very Sordid Wedding

Score: 5.4

House Party 2

Score: 5.3

Monkeybone

Score: 5.2

Burglar

Score: 5.2

9/11

Score: 5.1

Comic Relief '90

Score: 5.0

Golden Dreams

Score: 5.0

Beverly Hills Brats

Score: 5.0

The Contradictions of Fair Hope

Score: 5.0

Doogal

Score: 4.9

Outlaw Posse

Score: 4.9

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Score: 4.8

The Problem with Apu

Score: 4.8

The Black List: Volume Three

Score: 4.8

New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup 2002-2003 Champions

Score: 4.7

The Sunshine Boys

Score: 4.7

More Dogs Than Bones

Score: 4.6

Naked in New York

Score: 4.4

See You in September

Score: 4.3

The Hollywood Sign

Score: 4.3

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Score: 4.3

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Score: 4.3

Pinocchio 3000

Score: 4.3

Homie Spumoni

Score: 4.3

The Telephone

Score: 4.2

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Score: 4.1

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

Score: 4.1

Kambakkht Ishq

Score: 4.1

Farce of the Penguins

Score: 4.1

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Score: 4.0

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

Score: 3.8

Charley Pride: I'm Just Me

Score: 3.8

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

Score: 3.7

Theodore Rex

Score: 3.6

Junket Whore

Score: 3.5

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

Score: 3.5

Showboy

Score: 3.4

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

Score: 3.3

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

Score: 2.9

The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank

Score: 2.0

Rio

Score: 1.0

Atrabilious

Score: 1.0

Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway

Score: 0.0

Creating Ragtime

Score: 0.0

ASALI: Power of the Pollinators

Score: 0.0

Repairs

Score: 0.0

Bonnie Raitt Has Something To Talk About

Score: 0.0

Sisters in Italy

Score: 0.0

Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut

Score: 0.0

The Best of Comic Relief

Score: 0.0

Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts

Score: 0.0

Making Rat Race

Score: 0.0

Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk

Score: 0.0

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Score: 0.0

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

Score: 0.0

The World of Nat King Cole

Score: 0.0

The Sophisticated Misfit

Score: 0.0

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

Score: 0.0

New York Street Games

Score: 0.0

Flower of the Dawn

Score: 0.0

Three Trees

Score: 0.0

Music Is My Life: Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Score: 0.0

Stream

Score: 0.0

The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!

Score: 0.0

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Score: 0.0

Comic Relief III

Score: 0.0

Leopardi & Co

Score: 0.0

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Score: 0.0

Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic

Score: 0.0

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin

Score: 0.0

Titey

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Saturday TV Funhouse

Score: 10.0

Comic Relief

Score: 10.0

Whoopi's Littleburg

Score: 10.0

Citizen Rose

Score: 8.7

Whoopi

Score: 8.7

Amphibia

Score: 8.5

BoJack Horseman

Score: 8.5

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

Godfather of Harlem

Score: 8.1

Everybody Hates Chris

Score: 8.1

The Nanny

Score: 8.1

The Nanny

Score: 8.1

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Score: 8.0

Muppet Babies

Score: 8.0

Summer Camp Island

Score: 7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 7.9

Staged

Score: 7.9

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Score: 7.8

JANET JACKSON.

Score: 7.8

Blue Bloods

Score: 7.8

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Score: 7.8

The Weber Show

Score: 7.8

Classic Albums

Score: 7.7

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

Score: 7.7

Bubble Guppies

Score: 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

Bear in the Big Blue House

Score: 7.6

Liberty's Kids

Score: 7.6

The Middle

Score: 7.6

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

Muppets Tonight

Score: 7.5

30 Rock

Score: 7.5

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Celebrity Deathmatch

Score: 7.5

RuPaul's Drag Race

Score: 7.5

RuPaul's Drag Race

Score: 7.5

Hacks

Score: 7.4

Entourage

Score: 7.4

Harlem

Score: 7.4

American Masters

Score: 7.4

Hollywood Squares

Score: 7.3

Hollywood Squares

Score: 7.3

Star Trek: Picard

Score: 7.3

Hollywood Squares

Score: 7.3

So NoTORIous

Score: 7.3

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Broad City

Score: 7.1

Strong Medicine

Score: 7.1

A Different World

Score: 7.0

Ask the Storybots

Score: 7.0

Basketball: A Love Story

Score: 7.0

MADtv

Score: 7.0

The Tick

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Score: 6.9

The Stand

Score: 6.9

The Nineties

Score: 6.9

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Score: 6.9

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Score: 6.9

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Score: 6.8

Glee

Score: 6.8

Hell's Kitchen

Score: 6.8

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Score: 6.8

Lorena

Score: 6.8

Suburgatory

Score: 6.7

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Score: 6.6

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.

Score: 6.6

The Story of Late Night

Score: 6.6

The Naked Brothers Band

Score: 6.5

The Justin Lee Collins Show

Score: 6.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.3

Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

Score: 6.3

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

When We Rise

Score: 6.2

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked

Score: 6.1

The Tony Danza Show

Score: 6.1

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Score: 6.1

The Con

Score: 6.0

Real Time with Bill Maher

Score: 6.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

The 7D

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Great Performances

Score: 5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.6

CBS Schoolbreak Special

Score: 5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

The Stinky & Dirty Show

Score: 5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Score: 5.4

Number One on the Call Sheet

Score: 5.3

Wetten, dass..?

Score: 5.3

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

This Morning

Score: 5.2

Rachael Ray

Score: 5.1

Desus & Mero

Score: 5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Bagdad Cafe

Score: 5.0

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

Score: 5.0

The Shop

Score: 4.9

Tamron Hall

Score: 4.9

The Reichen Show

Score: 4.8

Random Acts of Flyness

Score: 4.6

Wogan

Score: 4.5

The One Show

Score: 4.4

The View

Score: 4.3

The View

Score: 4.3

The Chris Rock Show

Score: 4.2

Shatner's Raw Nerve

Score: 4.0

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Score: 3.9

Cuomo

Score: 3.9

Sherri

Score: 3.0

Tales from the Crypt - Uncut

Score: 0.0

Kevin

Score: 0.0

More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy

Score: 0.0

Pulp Comics

Score: 0.0

Dolly

Score: 0.0

De TV Show

Score: 0.0

The Word According to Whoopi

Score: 0.0

Anansi Boys

Score: 0.0

The Foxbusters

Score: 0.0

Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren

Score: 0.0