Log in / create account
What's your thing?
 
Search

Endpoint: Whoopi Goldberg



23:46
Videos (8)
created on: 2/02/2016
by: bob (9194)
 
 

Person properties

General info :
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955, Manhattan, New York), better known by her stage name Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, and television host.
A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of sixteen entertainers to win an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Tony Award.

Goldberg started 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 Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. For her performance in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990) as an eccentric psychic, 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), and became the highest-paid actress at the time.

In theatre, Goldberg has starred in the Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. In television, Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Since 2007, she has co-hosted and moderated the daytime talk show The View, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award. She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.
Relations :
Married to [m. 1986 - div. 1988] : David Claessen
This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary).
Partner (not married) [1996 - 2001] : Frank Langella
This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Source :
Copied Wikipedia parts under license :
ENA's

Movies

(55 items)

Person

(1 items)

Item number : 6741

Submitted by : bob (9194)
on : 02/02/2016
Refined by : bob (9194) , Nathalie (5022)
Last updated on: 04/08/2021