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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Acting · Production · Creator · Crew

Born November 13, 1955, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (192)
  • 2026Tribeca 25 — Self
  • 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
  • 2024Group Therapy — Self (archive footage)
  • Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Like Tears in Rain — Self
  • 2024Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Self
  • 2024Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams — Self
  • 2023Barry Humphries at the BBC — Self (archive material)
  • 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Oprah & The Color Purple Journey — Self
  • 2023Our Barbara — Self
  • 202220/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda — Self
  • 2022Bill Cosby: Walking Free — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
  • Cuomo — Self - Guest
  • 2022Is That Black Enough for You?!? — Self
  • JANET JACKSON. — Self
  • 2022Music Is My Life: Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo — Self
  • Sherri — Self - Guest
  • 2022Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising — Self
  • 2022Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not — Self
  • 2022Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • JFK: Destiny Betrayed — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It — Self
  • 2021Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days — Self - Guest
  • 2021The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World — Self - Host
  • The Story of Late Night — Self
  • 2020Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... — Self
  • 2020Feeding America Comedy Festival — Self
  • 2020Find Your Groove — Self
  • 2020My Darling Vivian — Self (archive footage)
  • The Con — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The Drew Barrymore Show — Self - Guest
  • 2020The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show — Self
  • 2019Charley Pride: I'm Just Me — Self
  • 2019Cracked Up — Self
  • Desus & Mero — Self
  • Lorena — Herself
  • 2019Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
  • Basketball: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
  • Citizen Rose — Self
  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
  • 2018Mister Rogers: It's You I Like — Self
  • 2018Olympia — Self
  • 2018Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018The Gospel According to André — Self
  • The Shop — Self
  • 2018Trump @War — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017Gilbert — Self
  • 2017Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me — Self
  • The Nineties — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017The Problem with Apu — Self
  • 2017The Truth Is in the Stars — Self
  • 201650 Years of Star Trek — Self
  • 2016Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Floyd Norman: An Animated Life — Herself
  • 2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years — Self
  • 2016Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley — Self
  • 2016X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time — Self
  • 2015Misery Loves Comedy — Self
  • StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
  • 2015The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank — Self
  • 2015The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad! — Self
  • Broad City — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • 2013Blackfish — Self
  • 2013Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale — Self
  • 2013Miracle Rising: South Africa — Self
  • 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic — Self
  • 2013Why We Laugh: Funny Women — Self
  • 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
  • 2012Katy Perry: Part of Me — Self
  • 2012Paul Simon: Under African Skies — Self
  • 2012Radioman — Self
  • 2010New York Street Games — Self
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked — Self - Guest Judge
  • 2010Teenage Paparazzo — Self
  • 2010The Black List: Volume Three — Self
  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2009Madea Goes to Jail — Self
  • RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge, Self - Special Guest
  • 2009Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants — Self (archive footage)
  • 2009Star Trek: The Captain's Summit — Self
  • The Justin Lee Collins Show — Self - Guest
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
  • 2008Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Shatner's Raw Nerve — Self
  • 2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self
  • 2007Elton 60: Live At Madison Square Garden — Self
  • 2007Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic — Self
  • 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
  • 2007Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007The Sophisticated Misfit — Self
  • More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy — Self
  • 2006The N Word — Self
  • The One Show — Self - Guest
  • Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron
  • Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List — Self
  • 2005The Aristocrats — Self
  • The Reichen Show — Self
  • 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! — Self (uncredited)
  • 2004TV in Black: The First Fifty Years — Self (archive footage)
  • The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
  • 2004The World of Nat King Cole — Self
  • 2004Uta Hagen's Acting Class — Self
  • 2003Declaration of Independence — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
  • Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
  • 2003Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2002Making Rat Race — Herself
  • 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self
  • 2002Showboy — Herself
  • 2001Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel — Self - Host
  • 2001Ghost: Remembering the Magic — Self
  • 2001Rescued from the Closet — Self
  • 2001The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' — Self - Hostess
  • 2000Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation — Self
  • 2000Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years — Self - Host
  • 2000Mary Pickford: A Life on Film — Self - Host / Narrator
  • 1999Get Bruce! — Self
  • 1998Junket Whore — Self
  • Whose Line Is It Anyway? — Self
  • Classic Albums — Self (archive footage)
  • 1997Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life — Self
  • 1997Pitch — Self
  • 1997Sports on the Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)
  • The Chris Rock Show — Self
  • The View — Self - Moderator, Self - Co-Host
  • Muppets Tonight — Self
  • 1996The Celluloid Closet — Self
  • 1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful — Self (archive footage)
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
  • 1995Bonnie Raitt Has Something to Talk About — Self
  • 1995Comic Relief VII — Self - Host
  • MADtv — Self
  • 1995The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut — Self - Host
  • 1995The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge — Self - Hostess
  • 1994But... Seriously — Self (archive footage)
  • 1994Comic Relief VI — Self - Hostess
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo — Self
  • 1994The Making of 'The Pagemaster' — Self (archive footage)
  • 1993Aretha Franklin: Duets — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest Host
  • 1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration — Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
  • 1992Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica — Self
  • 1992The Magical World of Chuck Jones — Self
  • 1991Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
  • 1990Celebrity Guide to Wine — Self
  • 1990Comic Relief '90 — Self
  • 1990Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years — Self
  • 1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter — Self (uncredited)
  • 1989Beverly Hills Brats — Self
  • 1989Hanna-Barbera's 50th — Self
  • 1989The Debbie Allen Special — Self
  • 1989Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly — Herself
  • 1988Free to Be... a Family — Self
  • 1988Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute — Self
  • 1988Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special — Self
  • 1988The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert — Self
  • This Morning — Self
  • 1987Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin — Self
  • 1987Citizen Steve — Self - Actress
  • Dolly — Self
  • 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
  • 1987Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later — Self - Host
  • 1987The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite — Self
  • American Masters — Self
  • 1986Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show — Self
  • Comic Relief — Self - Host
  • 1986Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce — Self
  • 1986The Best of Comic Relief — Self
  • 1986The Making of Captain EO — Self
  • 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
  • Reading Rainbow — Self
  • Wogan — Self
  • De TV Show — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • People's Choice Awards — Self - Winner
  • The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
  • Great Performances — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self - Guest
  • Tony Awards — Self - Host, Self - Presenter
  • The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
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