| Name | Whoopi Goldberg |
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| Birth name | Caryn Elaine Johnson |
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| Birth date | November 13, 1955 |
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| Birth place | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress, comedienne, radio disc jockey, producer, author, singer-songwriter, talk show host, activist |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
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| Partner | Frank Langella (1996–2001) |
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| Spouse | Alvin Martin (1973–1979)David Claessen (1986–1988)Lyle Trachtenberg (1994–1995)
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Whoopi Goldberg (, born
Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author 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'', ''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 (for production, not acting), 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. All of this has made her one of the most accomplished actors of her generation, and she is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
Early life
Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson 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, Jr., a clergyman. Goldberg has described her mother as a "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as a single mother after Goldberg's father had left the family. Goldberg's recent ancestors migrated north from Faceville,
Georgia,
Palatka, Florida, and
Virginia. Results of a
DNA test, revealed in the 2006
PBS documentary ''
African American Lives'', traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day
Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test (a test whose significance is still debated by geneticists) reveals that of the .1% of DNA tested, 92 percent is of sub-Saharan African origin and 8 percent is of European origin.
Her stage name, Whoopi, was taken from a whoopee cushion; she has 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." She adopted the traditionally German/Jewish surname Goldberg as a stage name because her mother felt the original surname of Johnson was not "Jewish enough" to make her a star. According to 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!" This spawned life-long fandom of ''Star Trek'' for Goldberg, who would eventually accept a recurring guest-starring role on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.
Career
Early work
Goldberg trained under famed acting teacher Uta Hagen at the HB Studio. She first appeared onscreen 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 composed of different character monologues, in 1983. Director
Mike Nichols was instantly impressed and offered to take 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 film 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, ''
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 film 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 NAACP 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 of the film, to no avail. 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.
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, and only the second black female in Oscar history to win an acting award. ''Premiere Magazine'' named her character, Oda Mae Brown, to the list of Top 100 best film characters of all time.
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 picture 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. In October 1997, Goldberg and ghostwriter Daniel Paisner, cowrote ''Book'', 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. Goldberg also appeared along side Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO special Unchained Memories, narrating slave narratives. 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 ''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.
''The View''
On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of ''
The View'', replacing
Rosie O'Donnell. 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.
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. 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." 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.
On more than one occasion, Goldberg has expressed strong disagreement and irritation with different remarks made by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, such as on October 3, 2007, when Hasselbeck commented that Hillary Clinton's proposed US$ 5,000 baby entitlement might lead to fewer abortions because of women wanting to keep the money.
Goldberg also created controversy when on September 28, 2009, during a discussion of Roman Polanski's case, she opined that Polanski's rape of a thirteen year old in 1977 was not "rape-rape". Goldberg later clarified that she had intended to highlight the exact charge brought against Polanski, namely statutory rape, i.e. unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, rather than rape with an unwilling participant. Polanski had been initially charged with "rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor", but under a plea bargain, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor with the graver charges dropped, before fleeing to France, hours before he was to be formally sentenced.
After comedienne Kathy Griffin referred to Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown's daughters as "prostitutes", Goldberg said that if anyone insulted her daughter like that then "I would beat their ass." The audience reacted with shock, and support.
Other media appearances
Goldberg performed the role of
Califia, the radiant Queen of the
Island of California, for a theater presentation called ''
Golden Dreams'' at
Disney California Adventure Park, 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.
In 2001, Goldberg hosted the 50th Anniversary of ''I Love Lucy'', a 50s black-and-white sitcom, celebrating the legacy of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.
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.
Along with her many contributions to film and television and her major impact on this industry, Whoopi Goldberg was a main narrator for HBO's 2003 film, ''Unchained Memories''.
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. In Season 4 of the show, Goldberg counsels Tracy Jordan on winning the "EGOT", the coveted combination of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.
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".
On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on ''The View'' that from July 29 to September 7, she would perform in the Broadway musical ''Xanadu''.
On November 13, 2008, Goldberg's birthday, she announced live on ''The View'' that she would be producing, along with Stage Entertainment, the premiere of ''Sister Act: The Musical'' at the London Palladium. The show began on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, with the official press night on June 2, 2009. The show featured actress Sheila Hancock and Patina Miller, amongst others.
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.
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 on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism in 2008, and also moderating a panel at the UN in 2009 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.
On December 18 through 20, 2009, Goldberg performed in the Candlelight Processional at Epcot in Walt Disney World. She was given a standing ovation during her final performance for her reading of the Christmas story and her tribute to the guest choirs performing in the show with her.
She also makes a guest appearance in Michael Jackson's short film for the single "Liberian Girl".
She made an appearance on the seventh season of the cooking reality show Hell's Kitchen by Gordon Ramsay where she was a special guest sitting at the chef's table in the kitchen where she was served by the contestants.
On January 14, 2010, Goldberg made a one-night-only appearance at the Minskoff Theatre to perform in the mega-hit musical Tha Lion King.
Goldberg made her West End debut as the Mother Superior in musical version of ''Sister Act'' for a limited engagement set for August 10–31, 2010, but prematurely left the cast on August 27, to be with her family; her mother had suffered from a severe stroke. However, she returned to the cast for five performances. The show closed on October 30, 2010.
Personal life
Goldberg has been married three times — in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter), in 1986 to cinematographer
David Claessen (divorced in 1988), and in 1994 to the actor
Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995). She has also been romantically linked with actors
Frank Langella and
Ted Danson.
In 1973, when Goldberg was 18, she and Alvin Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea (now an actress and producer who has used the stage names Alex Martin and Alex Dean). Goldberg became a grandmother at the age of 34 when her then 16 year-old daughter gave birth to a daughter, Amarah Skye. And through Alex, Goldberg has another two grandchildren who are 6 and 9 years younger than Amarah.
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 pubic area and saying: "We should keep ''Bush'' where he belongs, and not in the White House." Slim-Fast, took exception to these comments made by Goldberg and dropped her from the then current ad campaign.
On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke. Goldberg left London at the time, where she had been performing in ''Sister Act the Musical'', but returned to perform on October 22, 2010.
Whoopi has admitted publicly to having been a "high functioning" drug addict years ago, at one point being too terrified to even leave her bed to go use the toilet.
Awards and honors
Goldberg has received two
Academy Award nominations, for ''
The Color Purple'' and ''
Ghost'', winning for ''Ghost''. She is the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both
Best Actress and
Best Supporting Actress. 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 as well as the
Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. In 2009, Goldberg won the
Daytime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Talk Show Host for her role on ''The View''. She shares the award with co-hosts
Joy Behar,
Sherri Shepherd,
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and
Barbara Walters.
Goldberg is one of few to win an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She has been seen 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.
In 1990, Whoopi was officially named an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team by the members.
Activism
On April 1, 2010, Whoopi Goldberg joined
Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her
Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the
LGBT community. The campaign is to bring
straight people to ally with the gay, lesbian,
bisexual,
transgender community. Other names included in the campaign are
Jason Mraz,
Elton John,
Judith Light,
Cynthia Nixon,
Kim Kardashian,
Clay Aiken,
Sharon Osbourne, and
Kelly Osbourne.
Filmography
Film
{|class="wikitable"
|- align="center"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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 DramaNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion PictureNational Board of Review Award for Best ActressNominated –
Academy Award for Best Actress
|-
| 1986
| ''
Jumpin' Jack Flash''
| Terri Dolittle
|
|-
|rowspan=2 | 1987
| ''
Burglar''
| Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
|
|-
| ''
Fatal Beauty''
| Rita Rizzoli
|
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|-
|rowspan=2 | 1988
| ''
The Telephone''
| Vashti Blue
|Nominated –
Razzie Award for
Worst Actress
|-
| ''
Clara's Heart''
| Clara Mayfield
|
|-
|rowspan=3 | 1989
| ''Comicitis''
|rowspan=2 | Herself
| Short subject
|-
| ''
Beverly Hills Brats''
| Cameo
|-
| ''Homer & Eddie'' love
| Eddie Cervi
|
|-
|rowspan=2 | 1990
| ''
Ghost''
| Oda Mae Brown
|
Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressAmerican Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion PictureBAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActressNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion PictureSaturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
|-
| ''
The Long Walk Home''
| Odessa Cotter
|
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1991
| ''Wisecracks''
|rowspan=2 | Herself
| Documentary
|-
| ''Blackbird Fly''
| Short subject
|-
| ''
Soapdish''
| Rose Schwartz
|
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1992
| ''
Sister Act''
| Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence
|
American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion PictureNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion PictureNominated –
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Comedy or MusicalNominated –
MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated –
MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
|-
| ''
The Player''
| Detective Susan Avery
|
|-
| ''
Sarafina!''
| Mary Masembuko
|
|-
| ''The Magical World of Chuck Jones''
| Herself
| Documentary
|-
| rowspan=4 | 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
|Nominated –
MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
|-
| rowspan=6 | 1994
| ''Liberation''
| Narrator
| Documentary
|-
| ''
The Lion King''
| Shenzi
| Voice
|-
| ''
The Little Rascals''
| Buckwheat's Mom
|
|-
| ''
Corrina, Corrina''
| Corrina Washington
|
|-
| ''
Star Trek Generations''
|
Guinan
| UncreditedNominated –
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
|-
| ''
The Pagemaster''
| Fantasy
| Voice
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1995
| ''
Boys on the Side''
| Jane Deluca
|
|-
| ''
The Celluloid Closet''
| Herself
| Documentary
|-
| ''
Moonlight and Valentino''
| Sylvie Morrow
|
|-
| ''
Theodore Rex''
| Katie Coltrane
|
Fantafestival Award for Best Actress
|-
| rowspan=5 | 1996
| ''
Eddie''
| Edwina 'Eddie' Franklin
|
|-
| ''
Bordello of Blood''
| Hospital Patient
| Uncredited
|-
| ''
Bogus''
| Harriet Franklin
|
|-
| ''
The Associate''
| Laurel Ayres/Robert S. Cutty
|
|-
| ''
Ghosts of Mississippi''
|
Myrlie Evers
|Nominated –
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
|-
| rowspan=6 | 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
|-
| rowspan=7 | 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 PictureNominated –
Acapulco Black Film Festival Black Film Award for Best ActressNominated –
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
|rowspan=2 | Voice
|-
| ''
The Rugrats Movie''
| Ranger Margaret
|-
| rowspan=5 | 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
|
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2000
| ''
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle''
| Judge Cameo
| Uncredited
|-
| ''A Second Chance at Life''
| Narrator
| Documentary
|-
| ''More Dogs Than Bones''
| Cleo
|
|-
| rowspan=6 | 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 Cullin
|
|-
| rowspan=4 | 2002
| ''
Searching for Debra Winger''
|rowspan=2 | Herself
| Documentary
|-
| ''
Showboy''
| Cameo
|-
| ''
Star Trek Nemesis''
|
Guinan
| Uncredited
|-
| ''
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie''
| God
|
|-
| rowspan=6 | 2003
| ''Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives''
| Narrator
|rowspan=3 | Documentary
|-
| ''
Pauly Shore Is Dead''
|rowspan=3 | Herself
|-
| ''
Bitter Jester''
|-
| ''Beyond the Skyline''
| Short subject
|-
| ''Blizzard''
| Blizzard
|Voice
|-
| ''
Good Fences''
| Mabel Spader
|
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic SpecialNominated –
Black Reel Award for Television: Best Actress
|-
| rowspan=6 | 2004
| ''
Pinocchio 3000''
| Cyberina
|Voice of
|-
| ''
Liberty's Kids''
|
Deborah Samson/Robert Shurtliff
| Episode 34
|-
| ''
The N-Word''
|rowspan=3 | Herself
| Documentary
|-
| ''
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2''
|
|-
| ''
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood''
|
|-
| ''
The Lion King 1½''
| Shenzi
|Voice
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2005
| ''
The Aristocrats''
| Herself
| Documentary
|-
| ''
Racing Stripes''
| Frannie
| Voice
|-
| ''
The Magic Roundabout''
|rowspan=2 | Ermintrude
|
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2006
|''
Doogal''
|rowspan=3 | Voice
|-
| ''
Everyone's Hero''
| Darlin'
|-
| ''
Farce of the Penguins
| Helen
|-
| rowspan=6 | 2007
| ''Homie Spumoni''
| Thelma
|
|-
| ''
If I Had Known I Was a Genius''
| Mom
|
|-
| ''Nuremberg: A Vision Restored''
|rowspan=2 | Herself
|rowspan=2 | Documentary
|-
| ''
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project''
|-
| ''Our Country USA to Z''
| Herself (voice)
| Short subject
|-
| ''The Sophisticated Misfit''
| Herself
| Documentary
|-
|rowspan=3| 2008
| ''Stream''
| Jodi Moody floodi costrodi
|
|-
|''
Snow Buddies''
| Miss Mittens
|rowspan=2 | Voice
|-
|''
Descendants''
| Red Flower
|-
|rowspan=2| 2009
| ''
Madea Goes to Jail''
| Herself
| cameo
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|''Stream''
|Jodi
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|rowspan=3| 2010
|''
Toy Story 3''
| Stretch
|VoiceNominated—
IGN Movie Award for Best Ensemble Cast
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|''
For Colored Girls''
| Alice
|Nominated –
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
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Teenage Paparazzo''
| Herself
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|-
|rowspan=2| 2011
|''
A Little Bit Of Heaven''
| God
|-
|''
The Muppets''
| Herself
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|}
Television
''Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway'' (1985)
''Television Parts'' (1985)
'' Moonlighting'' (1986)
''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 to 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)
''A Different World'' (Season 4, Episode 92) (1991) (professor)
''The Whoopi Goldberg Show'' (1992–1993)
''Yuletide in the 'hood'' (1993) (voice)
''The Nanny'' (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).
Zevo 3 as Grams (2010–present) .
''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 to 2002) (also producer)
''Alice in Wonderland'' (1999)
''Our Friend, Martin'' (1999) (voice)
''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)
''Ms. Clavel: My Fair Madeline'' (2002) (voice)
''It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie'' (2002)
''Absolutely Fabulous'' – "Gay"'', Christmas special (2002)
''Celebrity Deathmatch'' Herself in the episode "Celebrity Deathmatch Special Report"
''The Disco Ball'' (2003)
''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'' (2007–2009)
''The View'' (2007–present) (moderator/co-host)
''Snow Buddies'' (2008)
''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)
''The Electric Company'' (2009) (star guest)
''The Cleaner'' (2009) PK A sponsor for NA
''Hell's Kitchen'' (2010) Special Guest
Discography
1985: ''Whoopi: Original Broadway Recording''
1988: ''Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?''
1992: ''Sister Act – Soundtrack''
1993: ''Sister Act 2 – Soundtrack''
2005: ''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
List of Black Golden Globe Award winners and nominees
References
Further reading
External links
Summary of Goldberg's history with dyslexia
Interview with the Sunday Telegraph, May 2009
Sister Act Booking
Whoopi Goldberg at Emmys.com
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