Whoopi Goldberg
(born Caryn Elaine Johnson
; November 13, 1955) [1] is an American Actor, Comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple
(1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the 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 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
(1992), The Lion King
(1994), How Stella Got Her Groove Back
(1998), The Rugrats Movie
(1998), Girl, Interrupted
(1999) and Rat Race
(2001). She is also acclaimed for her role as the bartender in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Goldberg has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television. She was the co-producer and center square of the latest edition game show Hollywood Squares
from 1998 to 2002. She has achieved success on Broadway and in the music industry, and is one of only a handful of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. In addition, she has won a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Currently, Goldberg is moderator and co-host of The View
, which earned her an Emmy in 2009. [2]
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Early life
Goldberg was born in New York City and raised in Manhattan's
Chelsea neighborhood, the daughter of Emma (née Harris), a nurse and teacher, and Robert James Johnson, a clergyman.
[3] [4] Goldberg's mother was a "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as a single mother after Goldberg's father had left the family.
[5] Her stage name was taken from
whoopee cushion, which she initially used as her stage name; she stated that "If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."
[6] [7] She chose the surname "Goldberg" after
Jewish ancestors of hers who bore the surname, having said that "Goldberg's a part of my family somewhere."
[8] In 1991, she referred to herself as a "Jewish-
Catholic girl from New York."
[9] She has stated that her mother is Jewish and referred to herself as a "
Jewish-American Princess".
[10] [11] However, Goldberg has also said: "My family is Jewish,
Buddhist,
Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions."
[12]
Results of a
DNA test, revealed in the 2006
PBS documentary
African American Lives
, traced most of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day
Guinea-Bissau. Her racial admixture test revealed her genetic makeup to be 92 percent sub-Saharan African and 8 percent European.
[13] [14]
In an anecdote told by
Nichelle Nichols in the documentary film
Trekkies
, a young Goldberg was watching
Star Trek
, and upon seeing Nichols' character
Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid!"
[15] This spawned life-long fandom of
Star Trek
for Goldberg, who would eventually achieve a recurring guest-starring role in 1987's
Star Trek: The Next Generation
.
Career
Goldberg's on-screen talent first emerged in 1981-82 in
Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away
, an avant-garde ensemble feature by San Francisco filmmaker William Farley. Goldberg created
The Spook Show
, a one-woman show devised of different character monologues, in 1983. Director
Mike Nichols was instantly impressed and offered to bring the show to
Broadway. The self-titled show ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985 for a total of 156 sold-out performances. While on Broadway, Goldberg's performance caught the eye of director
Steven Spielberg. He was about to direct the film
The Color Purple
, based on
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Alice Walker. Having read the novel, she was ecstatic at being offered a lead role in her first motion picture. Goldberg received compliments on her acting from Spielberg, Walker, and music consultant
Quincy Jones.
The Color Purple
was released in late 1985, and was a critical and commercial success. It was later nominated for 11
Academy Awards including a nomination for Goldberg as
Best Actress. The movie did not win any of its Academy Award nominations, but Goldberg won the
Golden Globe Award.
A comedic and dramatic balance
Goldberg starred in
Penny Marshall's directorial debut, 1986
Jumpin' Jack Flash
, and began a relationship with David Claessen, a director of photography on the set, and the couple married later that year. The movie was a success, and during the next two years, three additional motion pictures featured Goldberg,
Burglar
,
Fatal Beauty
, and
The Telephone
. Though not as successful as her prior motion pictures, Goldberg still garnered awards from the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards. Claessen and Goldberg divorced after the box office failure of
The Telephone
, which Goldberg was under contract to star in. She tried to sue the producers, but with no luck. The 1988 movie,
Clara's Heart
, was critically acclaimed, and featured a young
Neil Patrick Harris. As the 1980s concluded, she participated in the numerous HBO specials of
Comic Relief
with fellow comedians
Robin Williams and
Billy Crystal.
thumb in 2006
In January 1990, Goldberg starred with
Jean Stapleton in the TV situation comedy
Bagdad Cafe
. The show ran for two seasons on
CBS. Simultaneously, Goldberg starred in
The Long Walk Home
, portraying a woman in the
Civil Rights Movement. She played a psychic in the 1990 film
Ghost
, and became the first black female to win the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years.
Premiere Magazine
named her character, Oda Mae Brown, the 95th best movie character of all time.
[16]
Goldberg starred in
Soapdish
and had a recurring role on
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as
Guinan which she would reprise in two
Star Trek
movies. On May 29, 1992,
Sister Act
was released. The motion pictured grossed well over US$100 million and Goldberg was nominated for a
Golden Globe. Next, she starred in
Sarafina!
. During the next year, she hosted a late-night talk show,
The Whoopi Goldberg Show
and starred in two more motion pictures
Made in America
and
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
. From 1994 to 1995, Whoopi appeared in
Corrina, Corrina
,
The Lion King
(voice),
The Pagemaster
(voice),
Boys on the Side
, and
Moonlight and Valentino
. Goldberg became the first African-American female to host the Academy Awards in 1994. She hosted the Awards again in 1996, 1999, and 2002. Goldberg released four motion pictures in 1996:
Bogus
(with
Gerard Depardieu 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
, Goldberg began dating co-star
Frank Langella, a relationship which lasted until early 2000.
Goldberg wrote
Book
in October 1997, a collection featuring insights and opinions. In November and December 2005, Goldberg revived her one-woman show on Broadway at the
Lyceum Theatre in honor of its 20th anniversary.
From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took supporting roles in the
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
with
Angela Basset,
Girl, Interrupted
with
Winona Ryder and
Angelina Jolie,
Kingdom Come
, and
Rat Race
with an all-star ensemble cast. She also played the voice of Liz on the first four seasons of popular PBS program
The Magic Schoolbus
. She starred in the successful ABC-TV versions of
Cinderella
,
A Knight in Camelot
, and the TNT Original Movie,
Call Me Claus
. In 1998, she gained a new audience when she became the "Center Square" on
Hollywood Squares
, hosted by
Tom Bergeron. She also served as Executive Producer, for which she was nominated for 4
Emmys. She left the show in 2002, and the "Center Square" was filled in with celebrities for the last two on-air seasons without Goldberg. In 2003, Goldberg returned to television, starring in the NBC comedy,
Whoopi
, which was canceled after one season. On her 48th birthday, Goldberg was honored with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the next two years, she became a spokeswoman for
Slim Fast and produced two television sitcoms: Lifetime's original drama
Strong Medicine
that ran for six seasons and
Whoopi's Littleburg
, a
Nickelodeon show for younger children. Goldberg made guest appearances on the Hit
CW Network comedy,
Everybody Hates Chris
, as an elderly character named Louise Clarkson. She produced the
Noggin sitcom
Just For Kicks
, in early 2006. She was a guest at
Elton John's 60th birthday bash and concert at
Madison Square Garden on March 25, 2007.
Goldberg has said in interviews that she wants to focus on
The View
and her broadcasting career rather than acting.
The View
On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of
The View
, replacing
Rosie O'Donnell.
[17] O'Donnell 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.
[18]
Goldberg's 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.
[19] [20] Another comment that stirred controversy was the statement that the Chinese "have a very different relationship to cats" and that "you and I would be very pissed if somebody ate kitty."
[21]
Some defended Goldberg, including her co-host
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, saying that her comments were taken out of context by the press, because she repeated several times that she did not condone what Vick did.
[22]
On more than one occasion, Goldberg has expressed strong disagreement and irritation with different remarks made by Elisabeth Hasselbeck. On October 3, 2007, Hasselbeck and Goldberg were involved in a discussion about
Hillary Clinton's proposed US$5,000 baby entitlement. The discussion became a little heated due to Hasselbeck's commenting on how it would lead to fewer abortions because of women wanting to keep the money. Goldberg told Hasselbeck to "back off a little bit" and asked her if she "had ever been in that position to make that decision." Goldberg added, "Most people do not want to have abortions. Most women do not have them with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever- wait- ever has to make. So, when you talk about it, a little bit of reverence to the women out there who have had to make this horrible decision. And one of the reasons that we have had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean. That was the reason the law came into effect. That was why it was done."
[23] [24]
Other media appearances
right (2008).
Goldberg performed the role of
Califia, the radiant Queen of the
Island of California, for a theater presentation called
Golden Dreams
at
Disney's California Adventure, the second gate at the Disneyland Resort, in 2000. The show, which explains the history of the
Golden State (California), opened on February 8, 2001, with the rest of the park.
Golden Dreams
closed in September 2008 to make way for the upcoming Little Mermaid ride planned for DCA.
Goldberg hosted the 2001 documentary short,
The Making Of A Charlie Brown Christmas
. In July 2006, Goldberg became the main host of the
Universal Studios Hollywood Backlot Tour, in which she appears multiple times in video clips shown to the guests on monitors placed on the trams.
Goldberg made a guest appearance on the hit television show
30 Rock
, in which she played herself. She is shown as endorsing her own workout video.
From August 2006 to March 2008, Goldberg hosted
Wake Up With Whoopi
, a nationally syndicated morning radio talk and entertainment program.
In October 2007, Goldberg announced on the air that she would be retiring from acting because she is no longer sent scripts, saying, "You know, there's no room for the very talented Whoopi. There's no room right now in the marketplace of cinema. Being a Black intellectual with a Jewish surname finally caught up to me."
[25]
On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on
The View
that from July 29 to September 7, she will perform in the Broadway musical
Xanadu
.
On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, she announced live on
The View
that she will be producing, along with
Stage Entertainment, the premiere of
Sister Act: The Musical
at the
London Palladium. The show begins on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 with the official press night on June 2, 2009. Casting is to be confirmed.
She also gave a short message at the beginning of the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 wishing all the participants good luck, and stressing the importance of
UNICEF, the official charity of the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
[26]
Since its launch in 2008, Goldberg has been a contributor for
wowOwow.com, a new website for women to talk culture, politics and gossip.
Goldberg has also been an advocate for human rights worldwide, moderating a panel at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit
[27] on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism
[28] in 2008 and also moderating a panel at the UN in 2009.
[29] on human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation.
On December 13, 2008, Goldberg guest starred on
The Naked Brothers Band,
a
Nickelodeon rock-mockumentary television show. Before the episode premiered, on February 18, 2008
the band performed on
The View
and the band members were interviewed by Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.
Personal life
Goldberg has been married three times: in 1973 to drug counselor Alvin Martin (they divorced in 1979), in 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (they divorced in 1988) and in 1994 to the actor Lyle Trachtenberg (they divorced in 1995). She has also been romantically linked with actors
Frank Langella and
Ted Danson. She and Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea, an actress (born 1973, aka Alex Martin and Alex Dean). Goldberg has two granddaughters: Amarah Skye and Jerzey.
[30]
Goldberg was involved in controversy in July 2004 when, at a fundraiser for
John Kerry at
Radio City Music Hall in New York, Goldberg made a sexual joke about President
George W. Bush, by waving a bottle of wine, pointing toward her
vagina and saying: "We should keep Bush where he belongs, and not in the White House."
Slim-Fast, the biggest company in US health shake market, took exception to these comments made by Goldberg and dropped her from their current ad campaign.
[31]
As a result of several bad experiences, Goldberg had not flown on an
airplane since the mid-late 1990s, instead traveling via a personal bus.
[32] She admitted to
Jay Leno that it takes 42 hours of non-stop travel to get from New York City to Los Angeles this way.
[33] In April 2009, Goldberg flew to London for the first time as a result of taking a ten hour course with
Virgin Atlantic Airways. On
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
, she said she may now fly more in the future.
[34]
Awards and honors
Goldberg has received two
Academy Award nominations, for
The Color Purple
and
Ghost
, winning for
Ghost
. 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. She won a
Grammy Award in 1985 and a
Tony Award as a producer of the Broadway musical
Thoroughly Modern Millie
. She has won three
People's Choice Awards. In 1999, she received the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community. She has been nominated for five
American Comedy Awards with two wins. In 2001, she won the prestigious
Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the
Kennedy Center. Goldberg won the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host, along with her other co-hosts, for her role on
The View
Goldberg is one of few to
win an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She has starred in over 150 films, and during a period in the 1990s, Whoopi was the highest-paid actress of all time. Her humanitarian efforts include working for
Comic Relief
, recently reuniting with
Billy Crystal and
Robin Williams for the 20th Anniversary of
Comic Relief
In February 2002, Goldberg sent her Oscar statuette from
Ghost
to the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be cleaned and replated. During this time, the statuette was taken from its shipping container, and later retrieved by the shipping company,
UPS.
[35]
Filmography
Film
Year
| Film
| Role
| Notes
|
1982
| Citizen : I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away
|
|
|
1985
| The Color Purple
| Celie Harris Johnson
| Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture National Board of Review Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
|
1986
| Jumpin' Jack Flash
| Terri Dolittle
|
|
1987
| Burglar
| Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
|
|
Fatal Beauty
| Rita Rizzoli
| NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|
1988
| The Telephone
| Vashti Blue
|
|
Clara's Heart
| Clara Mayfield
|
|
1989
| Comicitis
| Herself
| Short subject
|
Beverly Hills Brats
| Herself
| Cameo
|
Homer & Eddie
| Eddie Cervi
|
|
1990
| Ghost
| Oda Mae Brown
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
|
The Long Walk Home
| Odessa Cotter
| NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|
1991
| Wisecracks
| Herself
| documentary
|
Blackbird Fly
| Herself
| Short subject
|
Soapdish
| Rose Schwartz
|
|
1992
| Sister Act
| Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence
| American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
|
The Player
| Detective Susan Avery
|
|
Sarafina!
| Mary Masembuko
|
|
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
| Herself
| documentary
|
1993
| National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon
| Sgt. Billy York
| uncredited cameo
|
Naked in New York
| Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall
|
|
Made in America
| Sarah Mathews
|
|
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
| Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence
|
|
1994
| Liberation
| Narrator
| Documentary
|
The Lion King
| Shenzi the Hyena
| voice
|
The Little Rascals
| Buckwheat's mom
|
|
Corrina, Corrina
| Corrina Washington
|
|
Star Trek: The Next Generation
| Guinan
| uncredited Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
|
The Pagemaster
| Fantasy
| voice
|
1995
| Boys on the Side
| Jane Deluca
|
|
The Celluloid Closet
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Moonlight and Valentino
| Sylvie Morrow
|
|
Theodore Rex
| Katie Coltrane
|
|
1996
| Eddie
| Edwina 'Eddie' Franklin
|
|
Bordello of Blood
| Hospital Patient
| Uncredited
|
Bogus
| Harriet Franklin
|
|
VR Troopers
|
|
|
The Associate
| Laurel Ayres/Robert S. Cutty
|
|
Ghosts of Mississippi
| Myrlie Evers
| Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|
1997
| Pitch
| Herself
| Documentary, uncredited
|
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
| Host/narrator
| Documentary
|
A Christmas Carol
| The Ghost of Christmas Past
| Voice
|
Destination Anywhere
| Cabbie
|
|
In the Gloaming
| Nurse Myrna
|
|
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
| Herself
| Special appearance
|
1998
| Titey
| The Iceberg (voice)
| Short subject
|
Alegría
| Baby Clown
|
|
A Knight in Camelot
| Dr. Vivien Morgan/Sir Boss
|
|
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
| Delilah Abraham
| NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated — Acapulco Black Film Festival Black Film Award for Best Actress Nominated — American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
|
Junket Whore
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
| Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen
| Voice
|
The Rugrats Movie
| Ranger Margaret
| Voice
|
1999
| Alice in Wonderland
| Cheshire Cat
|
|
''The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
| The Grand Banshee
|
|
Get Bruce
| Herself
| Documentary
|
The Deep End of the Ocean
| Candy Bliss
|
|
Girl, Interrupted
| Valerie Owens, RN
|
|
2000
| The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
| Judge Cameo
| Uncredited
|
A Second Chance at Life
| Narrator
| Documentary
|
More Dogs Than Bones
| Cleo
|
|
2001
| Golden Dreams
| Calafia, the Queen of California (Narrator)
| short subject
|
Kingdom Come
| Raynelle Slocumb
| Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|
Monkeybone
| Death
|
|
Rat Race
| Vera Baker
|
|
The Hollywood Sign
| One of the women throwing dirt on coffin at funeral scene
| Cameo
|
Call Me Claus
| Lucy
|
|
2002
| Searching for Debra Winger
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Showboy
| Herself
| Cameo
|
Star Trek Nemesis
| Guinan
| Uncredited
|
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
| God
|
|
2003
| Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
| Narrator
| documentary
|
Pauly Shore Is Dead
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Bitter Jester
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Beyond the Skyline
| Herself
| Short subject
|
Blizzard
| Blizzard
| Voice
|
Good Fences
| Mabel Spader
| NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
|
2004
| Pinocchio 3000
| Cyberina
| Voice
|
The N-Word
| Herself
| Documentary
|
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
| Herself
|
|
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
| Herself
|
|
The Lion King 1 1/2
| Shenzi
| Voice
|
2005
| The Aristocrats
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Racing Stripes
| Frannie
| Voice
|
The Magic Roundabout
| Ermintrude
|
|
2006
| Doogal
| Ermintrude
| Voice
|
Everyone's Hero
| Darlin'
| Voice
|
''Farce of the Penguins
| Helen
| Voice
|
2007
| Homie Spumoni
| Thelma
|
|
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
| Mom
|
|
Nuremberg: A Vision Restored
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
| Herself
| Documentary
|
Our Country USA to Z
| Herself (voice)
| Short subject
|
The Sophisticated Misfit
| Herself
| Documentary
|
2008
| Stream
| Jodi
|
|
Snow Buddies
| Miss Mittens
| Voice
|
Descendants
| Red Flower
| (voice)
|
2009
| Madea Goes to Jail
| Herself
| cameo
|
Stream
| Jodi
|
|
Television
- Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
(1985)
- Carol, Carl, Whoopi, and Robin
(1987)
- Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
(1988) (also writer)
- ''Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (guest star 1988)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
(recurring guest star from 1988-1993 as Guinan)
- My Past is My Own
(1989)
- Kiss Shot
(1989)
- Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown
(1990)
- Bagdad Cafe
(1990 - 1991)
- Tales From The Crypt
(Dead Wait) (1991)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers
(1990 - 1993) (voice)
- Defenders of Dynatron City
(1992) (voice)
- The Whoopi Goldberg Show
(1992 - 1993)
- Yuletide in the 'hood
(1993) (voice)
- The Nanny (TV series)
(1993 - 1999) (herself and a Marriage photographer)
- A Cool Like That Christmas
(1994) (voice)
- Denver the Last Dinosaur
(1994) (voice)
- The Sunshine Boys
(1995) (Cameo)
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995 - 1999) (voice)
- Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
(1997) (voice)
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
(1997)
- A Knight in Camelot
(1998)
- The Hollywood Squares
(center square from 1998-2002) (also producer)
- Alice in Wonderland
(1999)
- Jackie's Back!
(1999)
- Foxbusters
(1999 - 2000) (voice)
- Celebrity Dish
(2000)
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
(2000)
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
(1999)
- What Makes a Family
(2001) (also executive producer)
- Call Me Claus
(2001) (also executive producer)
- Madeline: My Fair Madeline
(2002) (voice)
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
(2002)
- Absolutely Fabulous - "Gay"
, Christmas special (2002)
- Good Fences
(2003) (also producer)
- Whoopi
(2003 - 2004) (also executive producer)
- Littleburg
(2004) (canceled after five episodes)
- Whoopi: Back to Broadway - the 20th Anniversary
(2005) (also executive producer and writer)
- Just for Kicks
(2006) (developer and executive producer)
- Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
(2006) (three part British TV series)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(2006)
- Everybody Hates Chris
(2006)
- 30 Rock
(2007)
- The View
(2007-present) (moderator/co-host)
- "Snow Buddies (2008)
- Wii Music
(2008-Present) (Natalie Tute)
- ''A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
- Life on Mars
(2008) (uncredited cameo)
- "Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (2008) (narrator)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2009) (star guest)
- Loose Women (2009) (star guest)
- The Justin Lee Collins Show (2009) (star guest)
- GMTV (2009) (star guest)
Discography
- 1985: Whoopi: Original Broadway Recording
- 1988: Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
- 1992: Sister Act - Soundtrack
- 1993: Sister Act 2 - Soundtrack
- 1993: Whoopi: The 20th Anniversary Show
Bibliography
See also
- List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
- List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
References
- Some sources quote her birth year as 1949 and 1950Biography.comIMDB
- [1]
- Black Women in America
- Whoopi Goldberg Biography
- Whoopi's Revenge
- Making Nice
- Whoopi Goldberg with Lisa Yapp
- Great African-American Women
- Whoopi Reins Herself in For a Role She Feels Her Character In `Long Walk Home' Brings a Big Message
- Oh, Sister! Goldberg Gets Her `Act' Together
- Whoopi: No More Sis' Films: Actress Also Takes Shots at The Media And Others Who Do Not Understand Her Brand of Humor
- http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcitie
- Whoopi Goldberg’s DNA Hails from W. Africa
- Goldberg Refuses Invite to African Ancestral
- Trekkies
- The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time
- Whoopi Goldberg joins 'The View'
- Whoopi-led View on topshow tops Rosie's ratings
- Goldberg defends Vick in 'View' debut
- Whoopi Goldberg defends Vick's dog-fighting role
- The new View? No big whoop
- Whoopi on 'The View,' Day Two: She Doesn't Condone Michael Vick's Dogfighting
- Access Hollywood
- Whoopi, Elisabeth Butt Heads Over Abortion
- Goldberg Retires From Acting
- http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/blog?id=1525 | Junioreurovision.tv | Sietse Bakker
- http://youthmovements.howcast.com
- http://www.howcast.com/videos/163441-Alliance-Of-Youth-Movements
- http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/03/battlestar-galactica-united-nations
- IMDb
- Dan Glaister "Goldberg dropped from diet ads over Bush joke" ''The Guardian'' July 16, 2004
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_3_32/ai_84237675/pg_2
- ''The Tonight Show With Jay Leno'', March 10, 2009.
- ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'', April 3, 2009.
- Whoopi Goldberg's Oscar: Lost & Found