Whoopi Goldberg
Acting
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.
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Captain Zero: The Movie
2028
Leopardi & Co
2025
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
2025
Flower of the Dawn
2025
Like Tears in Rain
2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
Atrabilious
2024
Ezra
2024
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
Babes
2024
Outlaw Posse
2024
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
2024
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023
The Color Purple
2023
Three Trees
2023
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023
Our Barbara
2023
My Father's Dragon
2022
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022
Till
2022
Music Is My Life: Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
Luck
2022
Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not
2022
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
2022
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021
The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
2021
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
My Darling Vivian
2020
Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway
2020
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
Find Your Groove
2020
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
The Most Magnificent Thing
2019
Cracked Up
2019
Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
2019
The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut
2018
Olympia
2018
Nobody's Fool
2018
Trump @War
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
The Gospel According to André
2018
Furlough
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
2017
The Problem with Apu
2017
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
9/11
2017
Descendants 2
2017
The Truth Is in the Stars
2017
Gilbert
2017
A Very Sordid Wedding
2017
King of the Dancehall
2017
Rio
2017
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
2016
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
50 Years of Star Trek
2016
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
2016
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!
2015
The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank
2015
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
Top Five
2014
Big Stone Gap
2014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
2014
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale
2013
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
2013
Blackfish
2013
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
2013
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Radioman
2012
Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012
Python Legs!
2012
The Muppets
2011
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2011
The Little Engine That Could
2011
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011
For Colored Girls
2010
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
New York Street Games
2010
Toy Story 3
2010
The Black List: Volume Three
2010
Teenage Paparazzo
2010
See You in September
2010
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
Journey to the Stars
2009
Kambakkht Ishq
2009
Star Trek: The Captain's Summit
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
Stream
2009
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
Descendants
2008
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
2008
Snow Buddies
2008
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest
2008
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
The Sophisticated Misfit
2007
Elton 60: Live At Madison Square Garden
2007
Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic
2007
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007
Farce of the Penguins
2006
Comic Relief 2006
2006
Homie Spumoni
2006
Everyone's Hero
2006
Doogal
2006
The N Word
2006
The Aristocrats
2005
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway
2005
Racing Stripes
2005
The Lion King 1½
2004
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
2004
The World of Nat King Cole
2004
Pinocchio 3000
2004
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup 2002-2003 Champions
2003
Declaration of Independence
2003
Blizzard
2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Good Fences
2003
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003
Star Trek: Nemesis
2002
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
2002
The Hollywood Sign
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Showboy
2002
Making Rat Race
2002
The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
2001
Call Me Claus
2001
Rat Race
2001
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Ghost: Remembering the Magic
2001
Kingdom Come
2001
Monkeybone
2001
Golden Dreams
2001
What Makes a Family
2001
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
2000
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Jackie's Back!
1999
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Our Friend, Martin
1999
Alegría
1999
Get Bruce!
1999
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999
The Rugrats Movie
1998
A Knight in Camelot
1998
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
Junket Whore
1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998
Titey
1998
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
Creating Ragtime
1998
A Christmas Carol
1997
Cinderella
1997
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1997
In & Out
1997
Pitch
1997
Destination Anywhere
1997
In the Gloaming
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
The Associate
1996
Bogus
1996
Bordello of Blood
1996
The Sunshine Boys
1996
Eddie
1996
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Theodore Rex
1995
The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Bonnie Raitt Has Something To Talk About
1995
Boys on the Side
1995
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
1994
The Pagemaster
1994
Star Trek: Generations
1994
Corrina, Corrina
1994
The Little Rascals
1994
The Lion King
1994
But... Seriously
1994
Liberation
1994
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
1994
A Cool Like That Christmas
1993
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
Naked in New York
1993
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
Made in America
1993
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
Sarafina!
1992
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
1992
Wisecracks
1992
Sister Act
1992
The Player
1992
Defenders of Dynatron City
1992
House Party 2
1991
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
1991
Chez Whoopi
1991
Soapdish
1991
The Long Walk Home
1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
Ghost
1990
Comic Relief '90
1990
Celebrity Guide to Wine
1990
Help Save Planet Earth
1990
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly
1989
Homer and Eddie
1989
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
1989
Kiss Shot
1989
Comic Relief III
1989
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
Free to Be... a Family
1988
Clara's Heart
1988
Whoopi Goldberg's Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
1988
The Telephone
1988
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
1988
Fatal Beauty
1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later
1987
Burglar
1987
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin
1987
The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite
1987
Citizen Steve
1987
Repairs
1987
The Best of Comic Relief
1986
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
The Making of Captain EO
1986
Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show
1986
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
The Color Purple
1985
Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Citizen
1982