Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg ( ), is an actress, comedian, writer and carrier television show. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards and is one of several entertainers who have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. She is the second black woman to win an Academy Award for acting.
Goldberg's breakthrough role was Celie, a woman persecuted in Deep South, in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985), where she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award. For his role in the romantic fantasy movie Ghost (1990) as Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic, Goldberg won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the second Golden Globe, the first for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1992, Goldberg starred in the comedy Sister Act , earned a third Golden Globe nomination, the first for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She changed her role in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), making her the highest paid actress of the day. Other film roles include Made in America (1993), The Lion King (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Girl, Interrupted (1999), For Girls i> (2010), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). On television, Goldberg is known for his role as a Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation ; since 2007, he has been a moderator of the talk show The View .
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Background and early life
Caryn Elaine Johnson was born in Manhattan City New York City on November 13, 1955, daughter of Robert James Johnson Jr. (March 4, 1930 - May 25, 1993), a Baptist minister, and Emma Johnson (nÃÆ' Â © e Harris; 21 September 1931 - August 29, 2010), a nurse and teacher. He grew up at the Chelsea-Elliot House.
Goldberg describes his mother as "a hard, strong, wise woman" who raised her as a single mother with her brother Clyde (circa 1949 - May 11, 2015), who died of a brain aneurysm. He attends a local Catholic school, St. Columba when he is younger. The more recent ancestors migrated north from Faceville, Georgia, Palatka, Florida and Virginia. He's out of Washington Irving High School.
He has stated that his stage name ("Whoopi") is taken from the pillow of rah-rah; "If you get a little gas, you have to let him go, so regular people tell me, 'You're like a rickety pillow.' And that's where it came from. "He said in 2011," My mother did not call me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name, it's part of my family, part of my legacy. Henry Louis Gates Jr., in his book In Our Root Search: How 19 Great African Americans Extraordinarily Reclaimed Their Past, discovered that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that he had no known Jewish descendants, and there is no ancestor named Goldberg. DNA test results, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives , trace the ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern Guinea-Bissau. His mixed test showed that he was 92 % sub-Saharan Africa and 8 % from Europe.
According to an anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols at Trekkies (1997), a young Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and upon seeing Uchiha's Nichols character, he exclaimed, "Momma! There is a leather woman black on television and he's not a maid! "This gave birth to Starberg's lifetime fandom for Goldberg, who would eventually ask for and accept the role of a recurring guest star on Star Trek: The Next Generation >.
In the 1970s, Goldberg moved to Southern California before settling in Berkeley, where he worked various odd jobs, including as a bank teller, mortuary cosmetologist, and mason. There, he joined the avant-garde theater troupe, Blake Street Hawkeyes, and taught comedy and acting classes attended by Courtney Love. Between 1979 and 1981, he lived in East Germany, working in a number of theatrical productions.
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Careers
Initial work
Goldberg was trained under Uta Hagen's acting teacher at HB Studio in New York City. He first appeared on screen in Citizen: I Am Not Losing My Mind, I Gave It Away (1982), an avant-garde feature ensemble by San Francisco filmmaker William Farley. Goldberg created the The Spook Show , a one-woman show consisting of different monologue characters in 1983. Director Mike Nichols offered to bring the show to Broadway. The show was titled Whoopi Goldberg for his Broadway incarnation, from October 24, 1984, to March 10, 1985, for a total of 156 shows; the drama was recorded during this run and broadcast by HBO as Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway in 1985.
Goldberg's performance on Broadway caught the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who played a leading role in The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel. The Color Purple was released in late 1985 and was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including a nomination for Goldberg as Best Actress.
Comedy and dramatic balance
Goldberg starred in Penny Marshall's directorial debut Jumpin 'Jack Flash (1986) and started a relationship with David Claessen, a director of photography at the set; the couple got married later that year. The film was a simple success, and over the next two years, three additional images featured Goldberg:
In January 1990, Goldberg starred with Jean Stapleton in the Bagdad Cafe sitcom . Sitkom runs for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, Goldberg starred in The Long Walk Home , describing a woman in the civil rights movement. She served as a psychic in the movie Ghost (1990) and became the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years, and the second black woman who won an Academy Award for Acting (Yang first is Hattie McDaniel, because Gone with the Wind (1939)). Premiere named his character Oda Mae Brown in his list of 100 best movie characters.
Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) and has a recurring role in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, which he will reprise in two Star Trek movies. On May 29, 1992, the Sister Act was released. The film earned more than US $ 200 million and Goldberg was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Next, he starred in Sarafina! . Over the next year, he hosted an evening talk show entitled The Whoopi Goldberg Show and starred in two more movies: Made in America and Sister Act 2: Back to Habit . From 1994 to 1995, Goldberg appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King, The Pagemaster (voice), Child Men on the Side and Moonlight and Valentino . Goldberg guest starred in Muppets Tonight in 1996. He became the first African-American woman to host the 1994 Academy Awards, and the first woman to host solos. He organized more awards events in 1996, 1999 and 2002.
Goldberg starred in four films in 1996: Bogus (with GÃÆ' Â © rard 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 his fellow star Frank Langella, a relationship that lasted until early 2000. In October 1997, Goldberg and hidden author Daniel Paisner wrote the book Book >, a collection featuring insights and opinions. In November and December 2005, Goldberg revived a female show on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater in honor of his 20th birthday.
From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took a supporting role in How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett, Girls, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come and Rat Race with the all-star ensemble player. She starred in ABC-TV version Cinderella , A Knight in Camelot and Call Me Claus . In 1998, he got a new audience when he became "Center Square" at Hollywood Squares , hosted by Tom Bergeron. He also serves as an executive producer, for which he was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He left the series in 2002, and "Center Square" filled with celebrities for the last two seasons without Goldberg. Most recently, she has a cameo role as boss Megan Fox in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot (2014) and describes herself in Chris Rock the Big Five .
In 2003, Goldberg returned to television, starring in Views
On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View , replacing Rosie O'Donnell, who supported the choice. Goldberg's debut as a moderator attracted 3.4 million viewers, 1 million fewer than the debut ratings of O'Donnell. However, after 2 weeks, The View averaged 3.5 million total viewers below Goldberg, up 7% from 3.3 million below O'Donnell in the previous season.
Goldberg has made controversial comments on the program. His first appearance included statements taken by some to justify dogfighting soccer player Michael Vick. In 2009, he argued that Roman Polanski's thirteen-year-old rape in 1977 was not "rape," then clarified that he intended to distinguish between rape by law ("unlawful sexual intercourse with small rape ") and forced . Goldberg was a persistent advocate of Bill Cosby from the start of his alleged rape, insisting that he should be considered innocent until proven guilty, and questioned why Cosby had never been arrested or tried for them. Upon learning that the limitations on this suspicion law had expired and thus could not be attempted, he asked Cosby to answer the charges, and began advising the women to come forward if they were raped.
Other media appearances
Goldberg performed the role of Califia, Queen of California Island, for a theater presentation called Golden Dreams at Disney California Adventure Park, the second gate at Disneyland Resort, in 2000. The show, which explains the history of Golden State (California) opened on February 8, 2001, with the rest of the park. Golden Dreams closed in September 2008 to pave the way for the upcoming Little Mermaid trip planned for DCA. In 2001, Goldberg hosted the 50th Anniversary of Love I Love .
Goldberg brings a short documentary, Making A Charlie Brown Christmas (2001). In July 2006, Goldberg became the main host of the Universal Studios Hollywood Backlot Tour, where he appeared several times in a video clip shown to guests on a monitor stationed on the tram. Along with his many contributions to film and television and its major impact on the industry, Whoopi Goldberg is the main narrator for the film HBO Unchained Memories (2003).
She made guest appearances in sitcom 30 Rock , where she played herself. He is featured as a supporter of his own training videos. In Season 4 of the sitcom, he advises Tracy Jordan to win "EGOT", a coveted combination of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. Goldberg was involved in the 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 his cock area and saying: We have to keep Bush in its place, and not in the White House. " Slim-Fast found a bit of humor in the comments made by Goldberg and dropped it from their current advertising campaign.
From August 2006 to March 2008, Goldberg hosted the Wake Up with Whoopi , a nationally syndicated talk radio talk show. In October 2007, Goldberg announced in the air that he would retire from acting because he no longer sent scripts, saying, "You know, there is no room for a very talented Whoopi. There is no room in the cinema market right now.".
On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on The View that from July 29th to September 7th, she will be performing on Broadway musicals Xanadu . On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, he announced live at The View that he would be producing, along with Stage Entertainment, the premiere of Sister Act: The Musical at the London Palladium.
He gave a short message at the start of the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest that hopes all the participants are lucky, and stressed the importance of UNICEF, the official charity contest of the Eurovision Junior Song Contest. Since its launch in 2008, Goldberg has been a contributor to wowOwow.com, a new website for women to talk about culture, politics, and gossip.
Goldberg is an advocate for human rights, moderating panels in the Youth Youth Movement Alliance on how social networks can be used to combat violent extremism in 2008, as well as moderating the UN panel in 2009 on human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism , human rights, and reconciliation. On December 13, 2008, she became a guest star on The Naked Brothers Band, a Nickelodeon rock-mockumentary television show. Prior to the premiere episode, on February 18, 2008, the band performed on The View and band members were interviewed by Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.
On December 18 to 20, 2009, Goldberg performed at Candlelight Processional at Epcot at Walt Disney World. She was applauded during her last performance for her reading of the Christmas story and her tribute to the guest choirs who performed at the show with her. She made guest appearances in Michael Jackson short films for the single "Liberian Girl", as well as a seventh-season performance from Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen" cooking show show as a special guest where she is served by contestants. On January 14, 2010, Goldberg made a one-night performance at Minskoff Theater to perform at The Lion King's hit mega-hit music. That same year, he attended the Life Ball in Austria.
Goldberg made her West End debut as Superior Mother in the musical version of Sister Act for a limited engagement for August 10-31, 2010, but before leaving her players on August 27 to be with her family; her mother suffered a severe stroke. However, he then returned to the players for five performances. The show closed on October 30, 2010.
Goldberg has a recurring role in the television series Glee as Carmen Tibideaux, a famous Broadway performer and opera singer as well as the newly appointed Dean Vocal Performance and Song Interpretation in the fictional "NYADA" (New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts) , a highly competitive performing arts college. The character appeared in six episodes for 3 seasons (2012-14). In 2012, Goldberg guest starred as Jane Marsh, counselor of Sue Heck's guidance on The Middle . She voiced the Magic Mirror at Disney XD's The 7D . In 2016, it was announced that Goldberg would develop a reality show called Entrepreneurship
Goldberg is one of the founders of Whoopi & amp; Maya, the company that makes medical marijuana products for women who seek help from menstrual cramps. Goldberg said he was inspired to enter the business with "a difficult lifetime and the fact that marijuana is literally the only thing that makes me relieved". The company was launched in April 2016.
Activism
On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper at the launch of the Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of LGBT community discrimination. The campaign aims to bring people directly to allies with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community. Other names included in the campaign include Jason Mraz, Elton John, Judith Light, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian West, Clay Aiken, Sharon Osbourne, and Kelly Osbourne. His high support for LGBT rights and AIDS activism began in 1987 March in Washington, where he participated.
On the episode of The View which aired on May 9, 2012, Goldberg declared he was a member of the National Rifle Association. Goldberg is on the Jefferson Award Select Board for Public Service.
Goldberg serves the national advisory board of the National Museum of Illustration America.
Personal life
Goldberg was married three times - in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter), on September 1, 1986 for cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988), and on October 1, 1994 to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg ( divorced in 1995).
She is romantically linked to actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and Ted Danson, who appeared controversially on the blackface during his 1993 Friar Club roast. He has stated that he has no plans to remarry, commenting "Some people are not meant to get married and I'm not predestined, I'm sure it's wonderful for many people." In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, he explained that he never loved the man he married and commented: "You must be totally committed to them and I just? - I do not have that commitment I am committed to my family. "
When Goldberg was a teenager he and his first husband, Martin, had a daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer. Through his daughter, Goldberg has three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke. He left London at the time, where he had performed at Sister Act the Musical, but returned to perform on October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's brother, Clyde, died of a brain aneurysm.
Goldberg has stated that he was a "high-functioning" drug addict several years ago, at one point too afraid to even leave his bed to use the toilet. He stated that he smoked marijuana before receiving the Best Supporting Actress Award for Ghost in 1991. Goldberg has dyslexia.
Religious view
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I do not believe in man-made religion.
Awards and honors
Goldberg is one of the few to win an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She has watched more than 150 films, and during the 1990s, Whoopi is the highest paid actress of all time. It was reported that Goldberg's salary for the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) was $ 7 to 12 million, the highest ever paid for an actress at the time.
Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost , winning for Ghost . She was the first African American to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. He has received three Golden Globe nominations, won two (1986 Best Actress for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost. ). For Ghost, he also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in Supporting Roles in 1991. In February 2002, Goldberg sent an Oscar statue from Ghost to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science must be cleaned and imitated. During this time, the statue was taken from its shipping container and then taken by the shipping company, UPS.
She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Record in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway," became the second woman at the time to receive the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of three women who received the award. She won the Tony Award in 2002 as a musical producer of Broadway Thoroughly Modern Millie . He has received eight Emmy nominations by noon, winning two. He has received nine Emmy Primetime nominations. In 2009, Goldberg won a Daytime Emmy Award for an Extraordinary Talk Show Host for his role in The View . He shared the award with him then hosted with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters.
She is the recipient of the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her solo performance on Broadway. He has won three People Choice Awards. She has been nominated for five American Comedy Awards with two wins (Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghosts and Best Actress in 1993 for Sister Act. In 2001, he won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
His humanitarian efforts include working for Comic Relief after reuniting with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams for the 20th Comic Relief. In 1999, he received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for his ongoing work in support of the gay and lesbian community, as well as the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and perfectionism, have helped expand the role of women in entertainment industry. He was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for a remarkable achievement by a dyslexia in 1987.
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