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Whoopi Goldberg

January 14, 2023

"Whoopi" redirects here. For the sitcom, see Whoopi (TV series).

Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),[1][2][3] known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈwʊpi/), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.[4][5] A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of 17 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Whoopi Goldberg
Goldberg in 2011
Birth nameCaryn Elaine Johnson
Born (1955-11-13) November 13, 1955 (age 67)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Medium
  • Stand-up
  • film
  • television
  • theater
  • books
Years active1982–present
Genres
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)​
ChildrenAlexandrea Martin
Signature

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 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 2011 she received her third Tony Award nomination for the stage adaptation of Sister Act (2011). On television, Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-1993), and Star Trek: Picard (2022). Since 2007, she has co-hosted and moderated the daytime talk show The View, for which she won the 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 Manhattan, New York City,[6] on November 13, 1955,[1][2][3] the daughter of Emma Johnson (née Harris; 1931–2010),[7] a nurse and teacher,[8] and Robert James Johnson Jr. (1930–1993), a Baptist[9] clergyman. She was raised in a public housing project, the 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 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 San Diego, California, where she became a waitress, then to Berkeley,[21] where she worked odd jobs, including as a bank teller, a mortuary cosmetologist, and a bricklayer.[22] She joined the avant-garde theater troupe the Blake Street Hawkeyes[22] and gave comedy and acting classes; Courtney Love was one of her acting students.[23] Goldberg was also in a number of theater productions.[24] In 1978, she witnessed a 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 Uta Hagen at the HB Studio[27] in New York City. She first appeared onscreen in 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 and ran from October 24, 1984, to March 10, 1985. It was taped during this run and broadcast by HBO as Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway in 1985.[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.[38] She starred in Penny Marshall's directorial debut Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) and began a relationship with David Claessen, a director of photography on the set; they married later that year. The film was a modest success, and during the next two years, three additional motion pictures featured Goldberg: Burglar (1987), Fatal Beauty (1987), and The Telephone (1988). Though they were not as successful, Goldberg garnered awards from the 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 Jean Stapleton in the situation comedy Bagdad Cafe (inspired by the 1987 film of the same name). The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, she starred in The Long Walk Home, portraying a woman in the US civil rights movement. She played a psychic in the film Ghost (1990) and became the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years, and the second black woman to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind in 1940). She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. Premiere named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list of Top 100 best film characters.[40]

Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) and had a recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation between 1988 and 1993 as Guinan, a character she reprised in two Star Trek films. She made a cameo in the Traveling Wilburys 1991 music video "Wilbury Twist".[41] On May 29, 1992, the film Sister Act was released. It grossed well over US$200 million, and Goldberg was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. That year, she starred in The Player and Sarafina!. She also hosted the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, receiving praise from the 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 How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett, Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come, and Rat Race with an all-star ensemble cast. She starred in the ABC-TV versions of Cinderella, A Knight in Camelot, and 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 four Emmy Awards.[52] She left the series in 2002. In 1999, she voiced Ransome in the British animated children's show Foxbusters by Cosgrove Hall Films. 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.[53]

2000s

Goldberg hosted the documentary short The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas (2001). In 2003, she returned to television in Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. On her 46th birthday, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She also appeared alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO documentary Unchained Memories (2003), narrating slave narratives. During the next two years, she became a spokeswoman for 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 blues singer Ma Rainey in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's historical drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Royale Theatre. She was also one of the show's producers.[54]

Goldberg was involved in controversy at a fundraiser for John Kerry at Radio City Music Hall in New York in July 2004 when she made a sexual joke about President George W. Bush by waving a bottle of wine, pointed toward her pubic area, and said, "We should keep Bush where he belongs, and not in the White House." As result, 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 Wake Up with Whoopi, a nationally syndicated morning radio talk and entertainment program.[56] In October 2007, Goldberg announced on the air that she was going to retire from acting because she was 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".[57] On December 13, 2008, she guest starred on The Naked Brothers Band, a Nickelodeon rock- mockumentary television series. 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.[58] That same year, Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards.[59]

2010s

 
Goldberg in 2010

In 2010, she starred in the Tyler Perry movie For Colored Girls, alongside Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Gray. The film received generally good reviews from critics and grossed over $38 million worldwide.[60] The same year, she voiced 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 Glee during its third and fourth seasons as Carmen Tibideaux, a renowned Broadway performer and opera singer and the dean at a fictional performing arts college 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, Patrick Stewart invited Goldberg to reprise her role as Guinan during the second season of Star Trek: Picard.[72] She immediately accepted his offer.[73] Goldberg also starred in The Stand, a CBS All Access miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, portraying Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old woman.[74] In 2020, it was announced Goldberg was set to return in Sister Act 3 with Tyler Perry producing. The film is slated to debut on Disney+.[75]

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

Goldberg guest starred on the Disney Channel show Amphibia as the character 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.[85] One of her first appearances involved defending Michael Vick's participation in 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][92] She later clarified that she had intended to distinguish between statutory rape and forcible rape.[93] 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".[94]

In 2015, Goldberg was initially a defender of Bill Cosby from the rape allegations made against him, questioning why Cosby had never been arrested or tried for them.[95][91] She later changed her stance, stating that "all of the information that's out there kinda points to 'guilt'."[96] After learning that the 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.[97]

On January 31, 2022, Goldberg drew widespread criticism for stating on the show that the Holocaust was not based on race but "about man's inhumanity to man",[98] telling her co-hosts: "This is white people doing it to white people, so y'all going to fight amongst yourselves."[99] She apologized on Twitter later that day.[100] She maintained that the Nazis' issue was with ethnicity and not race on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that same day, which drew further criticism.[101] Goldberg issued another apology on air the following day.[102] She was subsequently suspended from The View for two weeks over the comments.[103]

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.[104]

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.[105]

She made a guest appearance on the situation comedy 30 Rock during the series' fourth season, in which she played herself, counseling Tracy Jordan on winning the "EGOT", the coveted combination of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.[106] On July 14, 2008, Goldberg announced on The View that from July 29 to September 7, she would perform in the Broadway musical Xanadu.[107] 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.[108][109]

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.[110] Since its launch in 2008, Goldberg has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a new website for women to talk culture, politics, and gossip.[111]

Goldberg has been a frequent guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.[112] She made a guest appearance in Michael Jackson's short film for the song "Liberian Girl". She also appeared on the seventh season of the cooking reality series 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.[113] 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,[114] but prematurely left the cast on August 27 to be with her family; her mother had had a severe stroke.[115] However, she later returned to the cast for five performances.[116] The show closed on October 30, 2010.[117]

Entrepreneurship

Goldberg co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a company that made medical cannabis products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps.[118] 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".[119] The company was launched in April 2016 but announced in February 2020 that it was ceasing operations.[119][120] In 2021, Goldberg announced the launch of a new line of cannabis products, "Emma & Clyde", named for her late mother and brother.[121][122]

Philanthropy and activism

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

In 2006, Goldberg appeared during the 20th anniversary of Comic Relief.[123] Goldberg is an advocate for human rights, moderating a panel at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism in 2008,[124][125] and also moderating a panel at the UN on human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, and reconciliation in 2009.[126] On an episode of The View that aired on May 9, 2012, Goldberg stated she is a member of the National Rifle Association.[127][128]

On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community and to invite straight people to ally with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community.[129] Her high-profile support for LGBT rights and AIDS activism dates from the 1987 March on Washington, in which she participated.[130] In May 2017, she spoke in support of transgender rights at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards.[131]

Goldberg is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.[132] She also serves on the National Council Advisory Board of the National Museum of American Illustration.[133] She was a speaker at the 2017 Women's March in New York City and was such again at the following year's event.[134][135]

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 Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979;[136][137] to cinematographer David Claessen from 1986 to 1988;[137][138] and to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg from 1994 to 1995.[137] She has been romantically linked to actors Frank Langella[139] and Ted Danson.[140] 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.[141]

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."[137] In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she never loved the men she married[142] and commented: "You have to really be committed to them...I don't have that commitment. I'm committed to my family."[136]

In 1973, Goldberg gave birth to a daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who also became an actress and producer.[143] Through her daughter, Goldberg has three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.[144] On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother, Emma Johnson, died after having a stroke.[145] She left London at the time, where she had been performing in the musical Sister Act, but returned to perform on October 22, 2010. In 2015, Goldberg's brother Clyde died of a brain aneurysm.[146]

In 1991, Goldberg spoke out about her abortion in The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion. In that book, she spoke about using a coat hanger to terminate a pregnancy at age 14.[147] She said she had had six or seven abortions by the age of 25 and that birth control pills failed to stop several of her pregnancies.[148] After the 2022 Kansas abortion referendum, Goldberg claimed that God would support abortion rights because he gave women freedom of choice.[149]

Goldberg has stated that she was once a "functioning" drug addict.[150] She has stated that she smoked marijuana before accepting the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost in 1991.[151][152]

Goldberg has dyslexia.[153] 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.[154] She maintains an additional summer residence on the coast of Sardinia.[155] 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.[156]

Acting credits

Main article: Whoopi Goldberg on screen and stage

Awards and honors

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

Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the 17 people to achieve the EGOT, having won the four major American awards for professional entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater).[157][158][159] She is the first black woman to have achieved all four awards.[160]

Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost.[161][162] She is the first African-American actor to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She has received three Golden Globe nominations, winning two (Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost). For Ghost, she also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991.[163][164]

She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway", becoming only the second solo woman performer—not part of a duo or team—at the time to receive the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of only three single women performers to receive that award.[165][166] She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a producer of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations, winning two. She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations. In 2009, Goldberg won the Daytime Emmy Award for 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 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her solo performance on Broadway. She has won three People's Choice Awards. She has been nominated for five American Comedy Awards with two wins (Funniest Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost and Funniest Actress in 1993 for Sister Act). She was the three-time (and inaugural) winner of the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress.[167] In 2001, she became the first African-American female to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.[168]

In 1990, Goldberg was officially named an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team by the members.[169] In 1999, she received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community, 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.[170] In July 2010, the Ride of Fame honored Goldberg with a double-decker tour bus in New York City for her life's achievements.[171] In 2017, Goldberg was named a Disney Legend for her contributions to the Walt Disney Company.[172]

Discography

  • 1985: Original Broadway Recording (Geffen/Warner Bros. Records)
  • 1985: The Color Purple (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
  • 1988: Fontaine: Why Am I Straight? (MCA Records)
  • 1989: The Long Walk Home (Miramax Films)
  • 1992: Sarafina (Qwest/Warner Bros. Records)
  • 1992: Sister Act – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
  • 1993: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit – Soundtrack (Hollywood/Elektra Records)
  • 1994: Corrina Corrina (New Line Cinema)
  • 2001: Call Me Claus (One Ho Productions)
  • 2005: Live on Broadway: The 20th Anniversary Show (DRG Records)

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

  • Goldberg, Whoopi (1992). Alice. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-08990-0.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (1997). Book. New York: R. Weisbach Books. ISBN 0-688-15252-X.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2010). Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There?. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-2384-4.
  • Goldberg, Whoopi (October 2015). Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships: If Someone Says "You Complete Me," RUN!. New York: Hachette. ISBN 978-0-316-30200-5.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Adams, Mary Agnes (1993). Whoopi Goldberg: From Street to Stardom. New York: Dillon Press. ISBN 0-87518-562-2.
  • Caper, William (1999). Whoopi Goldberg: Comedian and Movie Star. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. ISBN 0-7660-1205-0.
  • DeBoer, Judy (1999). Whoopi Goldberg. Mankato, MN: The Creative Company. ISBN 0-88682-696-9.
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whoopi, goldberg, whoopi, redirects, here, sitcom, whoopi, series, caryn, elaine, johnson, born, november, 1955, known, professionally, american, actor, comedian, author, television, personality, recipient, numerous, accolades, entertainers, egot, which, inclu. Whoopi redirects here For the sitcom see Whoopi TV series Caryn Elaine Johnson born November 13 1955 1 2 3 known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg ˈ w ʊ p i is an American actor comedian author and television personality 4 5 A recipient of numerous accolades she is one of 17 entertainers to win the EGOT which includes an Emmy Award a Grammy Award an Academy Award Oscar and a Tony Award In 2001 she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Whoopi GoldbergGoldberg in 2011Birth nameCaryn Elaine JohnsonBorn 1955 11 13 November 13 1955 age 67 New York City New York U S MediumStand upfilmtelevisiontheaterbooksYears active1982 presentGenresObservational comedyblack comedysurreal humorcharacter comedysatireSubject s African American cultureAmerican politicsrace relationsracismmarriagesexeveryday lifepopular culturecurrent eventsSpouseAlvin Martin m 1973 div 1979 wbr David Claessen m 1986 div 1988 wbr Lyle Trachtenberg m 1994 div 1995 wbr ChildrenAlexandrea MartinSignatureGoldberg 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 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 2011 she received her third Tony Award nomination for the stage adaptation of Sister Act 2011 On television Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction series Star Trek The Next Generation 1988 1993 and Star Trek Picard 2022 Since 2007 she has co hosted and moderated the daytime talk show The View for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting career 2 1 1980s 2 2 1990s 2 3 2000s 2 4 2010s 2 5 2020s 3 Influences 4 Other ventures 4 1 The View 4 2 Media appearances 4 3 Entrepreneurship 5 Philanthropy and activism 6 Personal life 7 Acting credits 8 Awards and honors 9 Discography 10 Bibliography 11 See also 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External linksEarly lifeCaryn Elaine Johnson was born in Manhattan New York City 6 on November 13 1955 1 2 3 the daughter of Emma Johnson nee Harris 1931 2010 7 a nurse and teacher 8 and Robert James Johnson Jr 1930 1993 a Baptist 9 clergyman She was raised in a public housing project the 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 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 San Diego California where she became a waitress then to Berkeley 21 where she worked odd jobs including as a bank teller a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer 22 She joined the avant garde theater troupe the Blake Street Hawkeyes 22 and gave comedy and acting classes Courtney Love was one of her acting students 23 Goldberg was also in a number of theater productions 24 In 1978 she witnessed a midair collision of two planes in San Diego causing her to develop a fear of flying and post traumatic stress disorder 25 26 Acting career1980s Goldberg trained under acting teacher Uta Hagen at the HB Studio 27 in New York City She first appeared onscreen in 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 and ran from October 24 1984 to March 10 1985 It was taped during this run and broadcast by HBO as Whoopi Goldberg Direct from Broadway in 1985 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 38 She starred in Penny Marshall s directorial debut Jumpin Jack Flash 1986 and began a relationship with David Claessen a director of photography on the set they married later that year The film was a modest success and during the next two years three additional motion pictures featured Goldberg Burglar 1987 Fatal Beauty 1987 and The Telephone 1988 Though they were not as successful Goldberg garnered awards from the 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 Jean Stapleton in the situation comedy Bagdad Cafe inspired by the 1987 film of the same name The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS Simultaneously she starred in The Long Walk Home portraying a woman in the US civil rights movement She played a psychic in the film Ghost 1990 and became the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years and the second black woman to win an Academy Award for acting the first being Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind in 1940 She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture Premiere named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list of Top 100 best film characters 40 Goldberg starred in Soapdish 1991 and had a recurring role on Star Trek The Next Generation between 1988 and 1993 as Guinan a character she reprised in two Star Trek films She made a cameo in the Traveling Wilburys 1991 music video Wilbury Twist 41 On May 29 1992 the film Sister Act was released It grossed well over US 200 million and Goldberg was nominated for a Golden Globe Award That year she starred in The Player and Sarafina She also hosted the 34th Annual Grammy Awards receiving praise from the 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 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 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 How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett Girl Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie Kingdom Come and Rat Race with an all star ensemble cast She starred in the ABC TV versions of Cinderella A Knight in Camelot and 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 four Emmy Awards 52 She left the series in 2002 In 1999 she voiced Ransome in the British animated children s show Foxbusters by Cosgrove Hall Films 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 53 2000s Goldberg hosted the documentary short The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas 2001 In 2003 she returned to television in Whoopi which was canceled after one season On her 46th birthday she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame She also appeared alongside Samuel L Jackson and Angela Bassett in the HBO documentary Unchained Memories 2003 narrating slave narratives During the next two years she became a spokeswoman for 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 blues singer Ma Rainey in the Broadway revival of August Wilson s historical drama Ma Rainey s Black Bottom at the Royale Theatre She was also one of the show s producers 54 Goldberg was involved in controversy at a fundraiser for John Kerry at Radio City Music Hall in New York in July 2004 when she made a sexual joke about President George W Bush by waving a bottle of wine pointed toward her pubic area and said We should keep Bush where he belongs and not in the White House As result 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 Wake Up with Whoopi a nationally syndicated morning radio talk and entertainment program 56 In October 2007 Goldberg announced on the air that she was going to retire from acting because she was 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 57 On December 13 2008 she guest starred on The Naked Brothers Band a Nickelodeon rock mockumentary television series 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 58 That same year Goldberg hosted 62nd Tony Awards 59 2010s Goldberg in 2010 In 2010 she starred in the Tyler Perry movie For Colored Girls alongside Janet Jackson Phylicia Rashad Thandie Newton Loretta Devine Anika Noni Rose Kimberly Elise Kerry Washington and Macy Gray The film received generally good reviews from critics and grossed over 38 million worldwide 60 The same year she voiced 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 Glee during its third and fourth seasons as Carmen Tibideaux a renowned Broadway performer and opera singer and the dean at a fictional performing arts college 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 Patrick Stewart invited Goldberg to reprise her role as Guinan during the second season of Star Trek Picard 72 She immediately accepted his offer 73 Goldberg also starred in The Stand a CBS All Access miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King portraying Mother Abagail a 108 year old woman 74 In 2020 it was announced Goldberg was set to return in Sister Act 3 with Tyler Perry producing The film is slated to debut on Disney 75 Goldberg is also set to star in the biographical film Till written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu which she also produced 76 The film is set to debut at the 60th New York Film Festival Goldberg guest starred on the Disney Channel show Amphibia as the character Mother Olms 77 InfluencesGoldberg 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 venturesThe 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 85 One of her first appearances involved defending Michael Vick s participation in 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 92 She later clarified that she had intended to distinguish between statutory rape and forcible rape 93 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 94 In 2015 Goldberg was initially a defender of Bill Cosby from the rape allegations made against him questioning why Cosby had never been arrested or tried for them 95 91 She later changed her stance stating that all of the information that s out there kinda points to guilt 96 After learning that the 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 97 On January 31 2022 Goldberg drew widespread criticism for stating on the show that the Holocaust was not based on race but about man s inhumanity to man 98 telling her co hosts This is white people doing it to white people so y all going to fight amongst yourselves 99 She apologized on Twitter later that day 100 She maintained that the Nazis issue was with ethnicity and not race on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that same day which drew further criticism 101 Goldberg issued another apology on air the following day 102 She was subsequently suspended from The View for two weeks over the comments 103 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 104 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 105 She made a guest appearance on the situation comedy 30 Rock during the series fourth season in which she played herself counseling Tracy Jordan on winning the EGOT the coveted combination of Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony Awards 106 On July 14 2008 Goldberg announced on The View that from July 29 to September 7 she would perform in the Broadway musical Xanadu 107 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 108 109 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 110 Since its launch in 2008 Goldberg has been a contributor for wowOwow com a new website for women to talk culture politics and gossip 111 Goldberg has been a frequent guest narrator at Disney s Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World 112 She made a guest appearance in Michael Jackson s short film for the song Liberian Girl She also appeared on the seventh season of the cooking reality series 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 113 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 114 but prematurely left the cast on August 27 to be with her family her mother had had a severe stroke 115 However she later returned to the cast for five performances 116 The show closed on October 30 2010 117 Entrepreneurship Goldberg co founded Whoopi amp Maya a company that made medical cannabis products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps 118 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 119 The company was launched in April 2016 but announced in February 2020 that it was ceasing operations 119 120 In 2021 Goldberg announced the launch of a new line of cannabis products Emma amp Clyde named for her late mother and brother 121 122 Philanthropy and activism Goldberg lower right on the Spring 2003 cover of Ms magazine In 2006 Goldberg appeared during the 20th anniversary of Comic Relief 123 Goldberg is an advocate for human rights moderating a panel at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit on how social networks can be used to fight violent extremism in 2008 124 125 and also moderating a panel at the UN on human rights children and armed conflict terrorism and reconciliation in 2009 126 On an episode of The View that aired on May 9 2012 Goldberg stated she is a member of the National Rifle Association 127 128 On April 1 2010 Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community and to invite straight people to ally with the gay lesbian bisexual transgender community 129 Her high profile support for LGBT rights and AIDS activism dates from the 1987 March on Washington in which she participated 130 In May 2017 she spoke in support of transgender rights at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards 131 Goldberg is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service 132 She also serves on the National Council Advisory Board of the National Museum of American Illustration 133 She was a speaker at the 2017 Women s March in New York City and was such again at the following year s event 134 135 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 lifeGoldberg has been married three times She was married to Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979 136 137 to cinematographer David Claessen from 1986 to 1988 137 138 and to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg from 1994 to 1995 137 She has been romantically linked to actors Frank Langella 139 and Ted Danson 140 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 141 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 137 In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan she explained that she never loved the men she married 142 and commented You have to really be committed to them I don t have that commitment I m committed to my family 136 In 1973 Goldberg gave birth to a daughter Alexandrea Martin who also became an actress and producer 143 Through her daughter Goldberg has three grandchildren and a great granddaughter 144 On August 29 2010 Goldberg s mother Emma Johnson died after having a stroke 145 She left London at the time where she had been performing in the musical Sister Act but returned to perform on October 22 2010 In 2015 Goldberg s brother Clyde died of a brain aneurysm 146 In 1991 Goldberg spoke out about her abortion in The Choices We Made Twenty Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion In that book she spoke about using a coat hanger to terminate a pregnancy at age 14 147 She said she had had six or seven abortions by the age of 25 and that birth control pills failed to stop several of her pregnancies 148 After the 2022 Kansas abortion referendum Goldberg claimed that God would support abortion rights because he gave women freedom of choice 149 Goldberg has stated that she was once a functioning drug addict 150 She has stated that she smoked marijuana before accepting the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost in 1991 151 152 Goldberg has dyslexia 153 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 154 She maintains an additional summer residence on the coast of Sardinia 155 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 156 Acting creditsMain article Whoopi Goldberg on screen and stageAwards and honorsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg signature at Grauman s Chinese Theater Having acted in over 150 films Goldberg is one of the 17 people to achieve the EGOT having won the four major American awards for professional entertainers an Emmy Television a Grammy Music an Oscar Film and a Tony Theater 157 158 159 She is the first black woman to have achieved all four awards 160 Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations for The Color Purple and Ghost winning for Ghost 161 162 She is the first African American actor to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress She has received three Golden Globe nominations winning two Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost For Ghost she also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991 163 164 She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for Whoopi Goldberg Direct from Broadway becoming only the second solo woman performer not part of a duo or team at the time to receive the award and the first African American woman Goldberg is one of only three single women performers to receive that award 165 166 She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a producer of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations winning two She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations In 2009 Goldberg won the Daytime Emmy Award for 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 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show for her solo performance on Broadway She has won three People s Choice Awards She has been nominated for five American Comedy Awards with two wins Funniest Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost and Funniest Actress in 1993 for Sister Act She was the three time and inaugural winner of the Kids Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress 167 In 2001 she became the first African American female to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 168 In 1990 Goldberg was officially named an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team by the members 169 In 1999 she received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community 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 170 In July 2010 the Ride of Fame honored Goldberg with a double decker tour bus in New York City for her life s achievements 171 In 2017 Goldberg was named a Disney Legend for her contributions to the Walt Disney Company 172 Discography1985 Original Broadway Recording Geffen Warner Bros Records 1985 The Color Purple Qwest Warner Bros Records 1988 Fontaine Why Am I Straight MCA Records 1989 The Long Walk Home Miramax Films 1992 Sarafina Qwest Warner Bros Records 1992 Sister Act Soundtrack Hollywood Elektra Records 1993 Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit Soundtrack Hollywood Elektra Records 1994 Corrina Corrina New Line Cinema 2001 Call Me Claus One Ho Productions 2005 Live on Broadway The 20th Anniversary Show DRG Records BibliographyChildren 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 Goldberg Whoopi 1992 Alice New York Bantam Books ISBN 0 553 08990 0 Goldberg Whoopi 1997 Book New York R Weisbach Books ISBN 0 688 15252 X Goldberg Whoopi October 2010 Is It Just Me Or Is It Nuts Out There New York Hyperion ISBN 978 1 4013 2384 4 Goldberg Whoopi October 2015 Whoopi s Big Book of Relationships If Someone Says You Complete Me RUN New York Hachette ISBN 978 0 316 30200 5 See alsoBroadcast journalism 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