Whoopi Goldberg on screen and stage

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress, comedian and singer. The following is her filmography throughout her entire life acting career. She has won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. She won the Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actress for the 1990 film Ghost.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	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 Nominated – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
1986	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Terri Doolittle
1987	Burglar	Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
1987	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
1988	Clara's Heart	Clara Mayfield
1989	Comicitis	Herself	Short subject
	Beverly Hills Brats	Herself	Cameo
	Homer and 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 Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – TV Land Award for Favorite Character from the "Other Side"
1990	The Long Walk Home	Odessa Cotter	NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
1991	Wisecracks	Herself	Documentary
	Blackbird Fly	Herself	Short subject
	Soapdish	Rose Schwartz
	House Party 2	Uncredited
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 Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress
1996	Eddie	Edwina 'Eddie' Franklin	Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress
	Bordello of Blood	Hospital Patient	Uncredited
	Bogus	Harriet Franklin	Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress
	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 Present	Voice
	Destination Anywhere	Cabbie
	In the Gloaming	Nurse Myrna
	An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn	Herself	Special appearance Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with any combination of two people playing themselves)
1998	Titey	The Iceberg	voice
	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
	The Rugrats Movie	Ranger Margaret
	Alice in Wonderland	Cheshire Cat
1999	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
	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Judge Cameo	Not listed in final credits
2000	A Second Chance at Life	Narrator	Documentary
2000	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	Herself	Cameo
	Star Trek: Nemesis	Guinan	Uncredited
	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie	The Boss
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 of
	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 1½	Shenzi	Voice
2005	The Aristocrats	Herself	Documentary
	Racing Stripes	Frannie	Voice
	Doogal	Ermintrude The Cow	Voice
	Everyone's Hero	Darlin'
	Farce of the Penguins	Helen
2007	Homie Spumoni	Thelma
	If I Had Known I Was a Genius	Mrs. Reed
	Nuremberg: A Vision Restored	Herself	Documentary
	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Herself	Documentary
	Our Country USA to Z	Herself (voice)	Short subject
	The Sophisticated Misfit	Herself	Documentary
2008	Stream	Jodi Quinn
	Snow Buddies	Miss Mittens	Voice
	Descendants	Red Flower	Voice
2009	Madea Goes to Jail	Herself	cameo
2009	Stream	Jodi
2010	Toy Story 3	Stretch	Voice Nominated – IGN Movie Award for Best Ensemble Cast^[1]
	For Colored Girls	Alice	Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
	Teenage Paparazzo	Herself
	New York Street Games	Herself	Documentary
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven	God
	The Little Engine That Could	Tower
	The Muppets	Herself
2014	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Bernadette Thompson
	Big Stone Gap	Fleeta
	Top Five	Herself
	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Viola
	TCB Baby	Dr. Reynolds
2016	A Warrior's Tail	Mom Jozee	voice, English version
2016	King of the Dancehall	Loretta Brixton

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)
Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (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) Gaia, the Spirit of Earth
Sesame Street (1991-present) Herself
34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992) (host)
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)
66th Academy Awards (1994) (host)
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).
68th Academy Awards (1996) (host)
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)
71st Academy Awards (1999) (host)
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)
74th Academy Awards (2002) (host)
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)
Whoopi's Littleburg (2004)
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)
62nd Tony Awards (2008) (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) Chef's table guest
The Middle (2012) Jane Marsh
Glee (2012-2014) Carmen Tibadeaux
666 Park Avenue (2012) Maris Elder
Suburgatory (2012) Voice of Yakult
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013) (Voice) Mrs. Rabbit
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013) (director, producer, narrator)^[2]
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2015) Janette Grayson^[3]
Blue Bloods (2016) City Council Speaker Regina Thomas^[4]
Strut (2016) (executive producer)^[5]
Nashville (2016) Herself
The Tick (2016) Herself

References

^ "2010 IGN Award for Best Ensemble Cast". IGN. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
^ "Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley". Home Box Office, Inc. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
^ Roots, Kimberly (2015-09-16). "'Law and Order: SVU' — Whoopi Goldberg to Guest-Star in Season 17". TVLine.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
^ "Listings - BLUE BLOODS on CBS". TheFutonCritic.com. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
^ Yohannes, Alamin (August 9, 2016). "Oxygen's Trans Reality Show 'Strut' to Debut in September". NBC News. Retrieved August 12, 2015.

External links

Whoopi Goldberg on screen and stage at IMDb

[1] "2010 IGN Award for Best Ensemble Cast". IGN. Retrieved November 13, 2011.

[2] "Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley". Home Box Office, Inc. Retrieved 2014-05-15.

[3] Roots, Kimberly (2015-09-16). "'Law and Order: SVU' — Whoopi Goldberg to Guest-Star in Season 17". TVLine.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.

[4] "Listings - BLUE BLOODS on CBS". TheFutonCritic.com. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-09-04.

[5] Yohannes, Alamin (August 9, 2016). "Oxygen's Trans Reality Show 'Strut' to Debut in September". NBC News. Retrieved August 12, 2015.

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