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Whoopi Goldberg
Goldberg in New York City, November 2008
Born
Caryn Elaine Johnson

(1955-11-13) November 13, 1955 (age 68)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, comedienne, radio disc jockey, producer, author, singer-songwriter, talk show host, activist
Years active1981 – present
Spouse(s)Alvin Martin (1973–1979)
David Claessen (1986–1988)
Lyle Trachtenberg (1994–1995)
PartnerFrank Langella (1996-2001)

Whoopi Goldberg (Template:Pron-en; born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actor, 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 1998-2004. She has been the moderator of the daytime talk show The View since 2007. Goldberg has a Grammy, seven 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.

Early life

Goldberg was born as 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.[1][2] 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.[3] Goldberg's recent ancestors migrated north from Faceville, Georgia, Palatka, Florida, and Virginia.[4] Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced most 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.[5][6]

Her stage name, Whoopi, was taken from 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."[7][8] 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.[9] 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!"[10] 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

Goldberg's 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 movie did not win any of its Academy Award nominations, but Goldberg won the Golden Globe Award.

A comedic and dramatic balance

Goldberg at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

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 movie 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.[citation needed] Premiere Magazine named her character, Oda Mae Brown, to the list of Top 100 best movie characters of all time.[11]

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.[12] 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

Goldberg at Comic Relief in 2006

On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell.[13] 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.[14]

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.[15][16] 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."[17] 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.[18]

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.[19][20]

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[21][22] was not "rape-rape".[23] 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.[24] 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",[25] but under a plea bargain, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor with the graver charges dropped,[26][27][28] before fleeing to France, hours before he was to be formally sentenced.[25]

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.[29][30]

Other media appearances

Goldberg in New York City protesting California Proposition 8 (2008).

Goldberg performed the role of Califia, the radiant Queen of the Island of California, for a theater presentation called Golden Dreams at Disney's California Adventure, 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 50's black-and-white sitcom, celebrating the legacy of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.[citation needed]

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".[31]

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.[32]

Since its launch in 2008, Goldberg has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a new website for women to talk culture, politics and gossip.[citation needed]

Goldberg has also been an advocate for human rights worldwide, moderating a panel at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit[33] on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism[34] in 2008, and also moderating a panel at the UN in 2009[35] 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

On January 14, 2010, Goldberg appeared in the musical version of The Lion King for several different roles. These included Rafiki and Shenzi (in which Goldberg voiced in the movie), which have brief roles in the show.

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,[36] but prematurely left the cast on August 27, to be with her family; her mother had suffered from a severe stroke.[37] However, she returned to the cast for five performances: one on October 22, 2010 and two shows each on October 23 and 25.[38] The show closed on October 30, 2010.[39]

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.[citation needed]

When Goldberg was 18, she and Alvin Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea, an actress (born 1973, aka Alex Martin and Alex Dean). Goldberg became a grandmother at the age of 34 when her 16 year-old daughter gave birth.[40] The family appeared in a GAP ad. Goldberg has two granddaughters: Amarah Skye and Jerzey. She also has a grandson named Mason.

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, the biggest company in US health shake market, took exception to these comments made by Goldberg and dropped her from their current ad campaign.[41]

As a result of several bad experiences, Goldberg had not flown on an airplane since the mid-late 1990s, instead traveling via a personal bus.[42] She admitted to Jay Leno that it takes 42 hours of non-stop travel to get from New York City to Los Angeles this way.[43] In April 2009, Goldberg flew to London for the first time as a result of taking a ten hour course with Virgin Atlantic Airways. On Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, she said she may now fly more in the future.[44]

On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke.[45][46] She left London, UK 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, at one point being too terrified to even leave her bed to go use the toilet.[1]

Awards and honors

Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. 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. 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.[47]

In 1990 Whoopi was officially named an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team by the members.[48]

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 GLBT community as part of her True Colors Fund. 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.[49]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role 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 Drama
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash Terri Dolittle
1987 Burglar Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
Fatal Beauty Rita Rizzoli NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
1988 The Telephone Vashti Blue Nominated - Razzie Award for Worst Actress
Clara's Heart Clara Mayfield
1989 Comicitis Herself Short subject
Beverly Hills Brats Cameo
Homer & Eddie Eddie Cervi
1990 Ghost Oda Mae Brown Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Long Walk Home Odessa Cotter NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
1991 Wisecracks Herself Documentary
Blackbird Fly Short subject
Soapdish Rose Schwartz
1992 Sister Act Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
The Player Detective Susan Avery
Sarafina! Mary Masembuko
The Magical World of Chuck Jones Herself Documentary
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
1994 Liberation Narrator Documentary
The Lion King Shenzi Voice
The Little Rascals Buckwheat's Mom
Corrina, Corrina Corrina Washington
Star Trek Generations Guinan Uncredited
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Pagemaster Fantasy Voice
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
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
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
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 Picture
Nominated — Acapulco Black Film Festival Black Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated — 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 Voice
The Rugrats Movie Ranger Margaret
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
2000 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Judge Cameo Uncredited
A Second Chance at Life Narrator Documentary
More Dogs Than Bones Cleo
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
2002 Searching for Debra Winger Herself Documentary
Showboy Cameo
Star Trek Nemesis Guinan Uncredited
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie God
2003 Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Narrator Documentary
Pauly Shore Is Dead 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 Special
Nominated — Black Reel Award for Television: Best Actress
2004 Pinocchio 3000 Cyberina Voice
Liberty's Kids Deborah Samson/Robert Shurtliff Episode 34
The N-Word Herself Documentary
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
The Lion King 1 1/2 Shenzi Voice
2005 The Aristocrats Herself Documentary
Racing Stripes Frannie Voice
The Magic Roundabout Ermintrude
2006 Doogal Voice
Everyone's Hero Darlin'
Farce of the Penguins Helen
2007 Homie Spumoni Thelma
If I Had Known I Was a Genius Mom
Nuremberg: A Vision Restored Herself Documentary
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Our Country USA to Z Herself (voice) Short subject
The Sophisticated Misfit Herself Documentary
2008 Stream Jodi
Snow Buddies Miss Mittens Voice
Descendants Red Flower
2009 Madea Goes to Jail Herself cameo
Stream Jodi
2010 Toy Story 3 Stretch Voice
For Colored Girls Alice Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Teenage Paparazzo Herself
2011 A Little Bit Of Heaven God

Television

Discography

Bibliography

  • Goldberg, Whoopi (March 2011). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #5: CATastrophe. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 1423120833.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There?. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 1401323847.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #4: Terrible Terrel. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 1423120825.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (2010). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #3: Perfectly Prima. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 142312054X.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (2009). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #2: Toeshoe Trouble. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 1423119134.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (2008). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #1: Plum Fantastic. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 1423111737.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (2006). Whoopi's Big Book of Manners. New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 078685295X.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (1997). Book. New York: R. Weisbach Books. ISBN 068815252X.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (1992). Alice. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0553089900.

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  31. ^ World Entertainment News (4 October 2007). "Goldberg Retires From Acting". The Internet Movie Database News. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  32. ^ Junioreurovision.tv | Sietse Bakker.
  33. ^ http://youthmovements.howcast.com
  34. ^ http://www.howcast.com/videos/163441-Alliance-Of-Youth-Movements.
  35. ^ "A 'Battlestar Galactica' panel discussion at the United Nations". Chicago Tribune. March 10, 2009.
  36. ^ Back in the Habit: Whoopi Goldberg to Join London Cast of Sister Act
  37. ^ Aug 27: A statement from the producers
  38. ^ Whoopi Goldberg to Rejoin Cast of London's Sister Act
  39. ^ West End's Sister Act to Vacate London Palladium Oct. 30; Future Plans Announced
  40. ^ Marmion, Patrick (April 17, 2009). "As her smash film takes to the stage, Ms Goldberg reveals there's one habit she can't shake off: I'm still making Whoopi". Daily Mail. London.
  41. ^ Dan Glaister "Goldberg dropped from diet ads over Bush joke" The Guardian July 16, 2004
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  43. ^ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, March 10, 2009.
  44. ^ Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, April 3, 2009.
  45. ^ Christie D'Zurilla Whoopi Goldberg reveals her mother's death on 'The View' The Los Angeles Times September 7, 2010
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  49. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/slideshow/bisexual-stars-7577467

Further reading

  • Adams, Mary Agnes (1993). Whoopi Goldberg: From Street to Stardom. New York: Dillon Press. ISBN 0875185622.
  • Caper, William (1999). Whoopi Goldberg: Comedian and Movie Star. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. ISBN 0766012050.
  • DeBoer, Judy (1999). Whoopi Goldberg. Mankato, MN: The Creative Company. ISBN 0886826969.
  • Gaines, Ann (1999). Whoopi Goldberg. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. ISBN 0791049388.
  • Parish, James Robert (1997). Whoopi Goldberg: Her Journey from Poverty to Megastardom. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 1559724315.
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