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Whoopi Goldberg
surreal humor
  • character comedy
  • satire
    • Subject(s)
    Spouse
    • Alvin Martin
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      (m. 1973; div. 1979)​
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      (m. 1986; div. 1988)​
    • Lyle Trachtenberg
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      (m. 1994; div. 1995)​
    Partner(s)
    ChildrenAlexandrea Martin
    Signature
    Whoopi Goldberg's voice
    From the BBC program Desert Island Discs, May 10, 2009

    Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),

    Tony Award. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
    .

    Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Broadway under the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show. Her film breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. For her role as an eccentric psychic in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a second Golden Globe Award. She starred in the comedy Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), becoming the highest-paid actress at the time. She also starred in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Clara's Heart (1988), Soapdish (1991), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and Till (2022). She also is known for voicing roles in The Lion King (1994) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

    On stage, Goldberg has starred in the Broadway revivals of

    Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host
    . She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.

    Early life

    Caryn Elaine Johnson was born in

    Chelsea-Elliot Houses, in New York City.[10]

    Goldberg described her mother as a "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as a single mother with her brother Clyde (c. 1949 – 2015).[11][12] She attended a local Catholic school, St Columba's. Her more recent forebears migrated north from Faceville, Georgia; Palatka, Florida; and Virginia.[13] She dropped out of Washington Irving High School.[14][15]

    She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So 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."[16]

    About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black," and "I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."[17] She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"[17] One account suggests that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star.[17] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were black, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.[13] 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 of West Africa.[18] The show identified her great-great-grandparents as William and Elsie Washington, who had acquired property in northern Florida in 1873, and mentions they were among a very small number of black people who became landowners through homesteading in the years following the Civil War. The show also mentions that her grandparents were living in Harlem, and that her grandfather was working as a Pullman porter.[19]

    According to an anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols in Trekkies (1997), a young Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and on seeing Nichols's character Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!"[20] This spawned Goldberg's lifelong Star Trek fandom. Goldberg lobbied for and was eventually cast in a recurring guest starring role as Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

    In the 1970s, Goldberg moved to

    midair collision of two planes in San Diego, causing her to develop a fear of flying and post-traumatic stress disorder.[25][26]

    Acting career

    1980s

    Goldberg trained under acting teacher

    Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away (1982), an avant-garde ensemble feature by San Francisco filmmaker William Farley
    .

    In 1983[28] and 1984, she "first came to national prominence with her one-woman show"[29] in which she portrayed Moms Mabley, Moms, first performed in Berkeley, California, and then at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco; the Oakland Museum of California preserves a poster advertising the show.[30]

    She created The Spook Show, a one-woman show composed of different character monologues in 1983. Director Mike Nichols "discovered" her when he saw her perform.[31] In an interview, he recalled that he "burst into tears", and that he and Goldberg "fell into each other's arms" when they first met backstage.[32] Goldberg considered Nichols her mentor.[33] Nichols helped her transfer the show to Broadway, where it was retitled Whoopi Goldberg. The show ran from October 24, 1984, to March 10, 1985, and was taped and broadcast by HBO as Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway.[34]

    Goldberg's Broadway performance caught the eye of director Steven Spielberg while she performed in The Belly Room at The Comedy Store.[35] Spielberg gave her the lead role in his film The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker. It was released in late 1985, and was a critical and commercial success. Film critic Roger Ebert described Goldberg's performance as "one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history".[36] It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including a nomination for Goldberg as Best Actress.[37]

    Between 1985 and 1988, Goldberg was the busiest female star, making seven films.

    NAACP Image Awards. Goldberg and Claessen divorced after the poor box office performance of The Telephone, in which she was contracted to perform. She tried unsuccessfully to sue the film's producers. Clara's Heart (1988) did poorly at the box office, though her own performance was critically acclaimed. As the 1980s concluded, she hosted numerous HBO specials of Comic Relief with fellow comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.[39]

    1990s

    In January 1990, Goldberg starred with

    Premiere named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list of Top 100 best film characters.[40]

    Goldberg starred in

    Sun-Sentinel's Deborah Wilker for bringing to life what Wilker considered "stodgy and stale" ceremonies.[42] During the next year, Goldberg hosted a late-night talk show, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, and starred in two more films: Made in America and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. With an estimated salary of $7–12 million for Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), she was the highest-paid actress at the time.[43][44] From 1994 to 1995, she appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), Theodore Rex, The Little Rascals, The Pagemaster (voice), Boys on the Side, and Moonlight and Valentino, and guest-starred on Muppets Tonight
    in 1996.

    In 1994, Goldberg became the first black woman to host the Academy Awards ceremony starting with the 66th Oscar telecast.[45] She hosted it again in 1996, 1999, and 2002, and has been regarded as one of the show's best hosts.[46][47]

    Goldberg in 1996

    Goldberg starred in four motion pictures in 1996: Bogus (with Gérard 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, she began dating co-star Frank Langella, a relationship that lasted until early 2000. In October 1997, she and ghostwriter Daniel Paisner cowrote Book, a collection featuring Goldberg's insights and opinions.[48]

    Also in 1996, Goldberg replaced Nathan Lane as Pseudolus in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.[49] Greg Evans of Variety regarded her "thoroughly modern style" as "a welcome invitation to a new audience that could find this 1962 musical as dated as ancient Rome".[50] The Washington Post's Chip Crews deemed Goldberg "a pip and a pro", and that she "ultimately [...] steers the show past its rough spots".[51]

    From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took supporting roles in

    AC Nielsen EDI ranked her as the actress appearing in the most theatrical films in the 1990s, with 29 films grossing $1.3 billion in the U.S. and Canada (equivalent to $2 billion in 2023).[53]

    2000s

    Goldberg hosted the documentary short The Making of

    Slim Fast and produced two television series: Lifetime's original drama Strong Medicine, which ran six seasons; and Whoopi's Littleburg, a children's television series on Nickelodeon
    .

    Goldberg returned to the stage in 2003, starring as

    Royale Theatre. She was also one of the show's producers.[54]

    Goldberg was involved in controversy at a fundraiser for

    Slim-Fast dropped her from their ad campaign.[55] Later that year, she revived her one-woman show at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway in honor of its 20th anniversary; Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the opening night performance an "intermittently funny but sluggish evening of comic portraiture".[31] Goldberg made guest appearances on Everybody Hates Chris as elderly character Louise Clarkson.[56]

    From August 2006 to March 2008, Goldberg hosted

    the band performed on The View and the band members were interviewed by Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.[58] That same year, Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards.[59]

    2010s

    Goldberg in 2010

    In 2010, she starred in the

    Stretch in the Disney/Pixar animated movie Toy Story 3. The movie received critical acclaim and grossed $1.067 billion worldwide.[61]

    Goldberg had a recurring role on the television series

    NYADA (New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts).[62] In 2011, she had a cameo in The Muppets.[63] In 2012, Goldberg guest starred as Jane Marsh, Sue Heck's guidance counselor on The Middle. She voiced the Magic Mirror on Disney XD's The 7D. In 2014, she also portrayed a character in the superhero film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).[64] She also appeared as herself in Chris Rock's Top Five and starred in the romantic comedy film Big Stone Gap.[65]

    In 2016, Goldberg executive produced a reality television series called Strut, based on transgender models from the modeling agency Slay Model Management in Los Angeles. The series aired on Oxygen.[66] In 2017, she voiced Ursula, the Sea Witch and Uma's mother, in the TV movie Descendants 2.[67] In 2018, she starred in the Tyler Perry's film Nobody's Fool, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Omari Hardwick, Mehcad Brooks, Amber Riley, and Tika Sumpter.[68] That same year, she also starred in the comedy-drama film Furlough, alongside Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, and Anna Paquin.[69][70]

    In 2019, Goldberg's voice was used for the role of the Giant's Wife in the Hollywood Bowl production of Into the Woods.[71]

    2020s

    In an appearance on The View on January 22, 2020,

    Disney+.[75]

    Goldberg also stars in the biographical film Till, written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, which she also produced.[76] The film debuted at the 60th New York Film Festival.

    Goldberg guest starred on the

    Mother Olms.[77]

    Influences

    Goldberg has stated that her influences are Richard Pryor,[78] George Carlin,[79] Moms Mabley,[80] Lenny Bruce,[81] Joan Rivers, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, and Harry Belafonte.[82]

    Other ventures

    The View

    The View's panel (L-R: Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck) interview Barack Obama on July 29, 2010

    On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell.[83] Goldberg's debut as moderator drew 3.4 million viewers, 1 million fewer than O'Donnell's debut ratings. However, after 2 weeks, The View was averaging 3.5 million total viewers under Goldberg, a 7-percent increase from 3.3 million under O'Donnell the previous season.[84]

    Goldberg has made controversial comments on the program on several occasions.

    dogfighting as a result of "cultural upbringing".[86][87] In 2009, she opined that Roman Polanski's rape conviction of a thirteen-year-old in 1977[88][89] was not "rape-rape".[90][91] She later clarified that she had intended to distinguish between statutory rape and forcible rape.[92] The following year, in response to alleged comments by Mel Gibson considered racist, she said: "I don't like what he did here, but I know Mel and I know he's not a racist".[93]

    In 2015, Goldberg was initially a defender of

    statute of limitations on these allegations had expired and thus Cosby could not be tried, she also stated her support for removing the statute of limitations for rape.[96]

    On January 31, 2022, Goldberg drew widespread criticism for stating on the show that

    Nazis' issue was with ethnicity and not race on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that same day, which drew further criticism.[100] Goldberg issued another apology on air the following day.[101] She was subsequently suspended from The View for two weeks over the comments.[102]

    Media appearances

    In New York City protesting the 2008 California Proposition 8

    Goldberg performed the role of

    Califia, the 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 co-hosted the 50th Anniversary of I Love Lucy.[103]

    In July 2006, Goldberg became the main host of the Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour, in which she appears multiple times in video clips shown to the guests on monitors placed on the trams.[104]

    She made a guest appearance on the situation comedy

    Sister Act: The Musical at the London Palladium.[107][108]

    She 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.[109] Since its launch in 2008, Goldberg has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a new website for women to talk culture, politics, and gossip.[110]

    Goldberg has been a frequent guest narrator at

    Hell's Kitchen as a special guest. On January 14, 2010, Goldberg made a one-night-only appearance at the Minskoff Theatre to perform in the mega-hit musical The Lion King.[112] That same year, she attended the Life Ball
    in Austria.

    Goldberg made her West End debut as the Mother Superior in a musical version of Sister Act for a limited engagement set for August 10–31, 2010,[113] but prematurely left the cast on August 27 to be with her family; her mother had had a severe stroke.[114] However, she later returned to the cast for five performances.[115] The show closed on October 30, 2010.[116]

    Entrepreneurship

    Goldberg co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a company that made medical cannabis products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps.[117] Goldberg says she was inspired to go into business by "a lifetime of difficult periods and the fact that cannabis was literally the only thing that gave me relief".[118] The company was launched in April 2016 but announced in February 2020 that it was ceasing operations.[118][119] In 2021, Goldberg announced the launch of a new line of cannabis products, "Emma & Clyde", named for her late mother and brother.[120][121]

    Philanthropy and activism

    Goldberg (lower right) on the Spring 2003 cover of Ms. magazine

    In 2006, Goldberg appeared during the 20th anniversary of

    Alliance of Youth Movements Summit on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism in 2008,[123][124] and also moderating a panel at the UN on human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, and reconciliation in 2009.[125] On an episode of The View that aired on May 9, 2012, Goldberg stated she is a member of the National Rifle Association.[126][127]

    On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined

    transgender rights at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards.[130]

    Goldberg is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.[131] She also serves on the National Council Advisory Board of the National Museum of American Illustration.[132] She was a speaker at the 2017 Women's March in New York City and was such again at the following year's event.[133][134]

    On January 24, 2021, Goldberg appeared with Tom Everett Scott as guests on the AmAIRican Grabbuddies marathon fundraising episode of The George Lucas Talk Show, where she spoke of her time working on Snow Buddies and raised money for the ASPCA.

    Personal life

    Goldberg has been married three times. She was married to drug counselor Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979;[135][136] to cinematographer David Claessen from 1986 to 1988;[136][137] and to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg from 1994 to 1995.[136] She has had live-in relationships with actor Frank Langella[138] and playwright David Schein.[139] Her other ex-boyfriends include businessman Michael Visbal,[140] orthodontist Jeffrey Cohen,[141] camera operator Edward Gold,[142] and actors Timothy Dalton[143] and Ted Danson.[144] Danson controversially appeared in blackface during his 1993 Friars Club roast; Goldberg wrote some of his jokes for the event and defended Danson after a media furor.[145]

    She has stated that she has no plans to marry again: "Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I'm sure it is wonderful for lots of people."[136] In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she was never in love with the men she married[146] and commented: "You have to really be committed to them...I don't have that commitment. I'm committed to my family."[135]

    On May 9, 1974, Goldberg gave birth to a daughter,

    brain aneurysm.[150]

    In 1991, Goldberg spoke out about her

    abortion rights because he gave women freedom of choice.[153]

    Goldberg has stated that she was once a "functioning" drug addict.[154] She has stated that she smoked marijuana before accepting the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost in 1991.[155][156]

    Goldberg has dyslexia.[157] She has lived in Llewellyn Park, a neighborhood in West Orange, New Jersey, saying she moved there to be able to be outside in private.[158] She maintains an additional summer residence on the coast of Sardinia.[159] She has expressed a preference for defining herself by the gender-neutral term "actor" rather than "actress", saying: "An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor–I can play anything."[5] In March 2019, Goldberg revealed that she had been battling pneumonia and sepsis, which caused her to take a leave of absence from The View.[160]

    On a season 9 episode of PBS's "Finding Your Roots", featuring Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez, it was revealed Goldberg and Gonzalez are distant cousins.[161]

    Filmography

    Main article: Whoopi Goldberg on screen and stage

    Awards and honors

    Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg
    Grauman's Chinese Theater

    Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the 19 people to

    Tony (Theater).[162][163][164] She is the first black woman to have achieved all four awards.[165]

    Goldberg has received two

    BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991.[168][169]

    She won a

    Outstanding Talk Show Host for her work on The View. She shared the award with her then co-hosts Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters
    .

    Goldberg is the recipient of the 1985

    Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress.[172] In 2001, she became the first African-American female to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.[173]

    In 1990, Goldberg was officially named an honorary member of 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.[175] In July 2010, the Ride of Fame honored Goldberg with a double-decker tour bus in New York City for her life's achievements.[176] In 2017, Goldberg was named a Disney Legend for her contributions to the Walt Disney Company.[177]

    Discography

    Bibliography

    Children's books

    • Goldberg, Whoopi (2006). Whoopi's Big Book of Manners. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 0-7868-5295-X
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (2008). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #1: Plum Fantastic. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-1173-3
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (2009). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #2: Toeshoe Trouble. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-1913-5
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (2010). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #3: Perfectly Prima. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-2054-4
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #4: Terrible Terrel. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-2082-7
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (March 2011). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #5: CATastrophe. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-2083-4
      .
    • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2012). Sugar Plum Ballerinas #6: Dancing Divas. Los Angeles: Little People Books.
      ISBN 978-1-4231-2084-1
      .

    Non-fiction

    See also

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