Whoopie Goldberg
| Whoopi Goldberg | |
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Whoopi Goldberg in 2006
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| Birth name | Caryn Elaine Johnson |
| Born |
November 13, 1955 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, film, television, theatre, books, Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, black comedy, insult comedy, musical comedy, character comedy, satire |
| Subject(s) | African-American culture, American politics, race relations, racism, marriage, sex, everyday life, pop culture, current events |
| Spouse |
Alvin Martin (m. 1973; div. 1979) David Claessen (m. 1986; div. 1988) Lyle Trachtenberg (m. 1994; div. 1995) |
| Children | Alexandrea Martin |
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈhwʊpi/), is an American actress, comedian, author, and television host. She is a Triple Crowning Actor. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television and is one of the few entertainers to have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar.
In the period drama film The Color Purple (1985), her breakthrough role was playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe. In the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), Goldberg played Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic who helped a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and a second Golden Globe, her first for Best Supporting Actress.
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