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Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage
name, Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955 in
Chelsea, Manhattan New York), is a well-known
American film actress, comedian, and
singer.  Says she is both Catholic and Jewish.

After success as a Stand up comedian|stand-up
comedian in the San Francisco, California|San
Francisco Bay Area, Goldberg created a one woman
show in 1983 called The Spook Show. This show
caught the attention of Mike Nichols who produced
a one-woman show for Goldberg on broadway
theatre|Broadway, called simply Whoopi Goldberg,
which ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985
for a total of 156 performances. Goldberg's
performance caught the eye of Steven Spielberg,
who was inspired to cast Goldberg in her film
debut, an adaption of the award-winning novel The
Color Purple by Alice Walker. This performance
garnered her an Academy Award|Oscar nomination for
best actress in 1986. She followed up this
performance with a sell-out, highly acclaimed
one-woman show on Broadway. The majority of the
films she made in the 1980s featured her in
tough-woman comedic roles (Burglar
(movie)|Burglar, Fatal Beauty, Jumpin' Jack Flash
(movie)|Jumpin' Jack Flash), though she regularly
balanced them out by performing in family-oriented
films (Clara's Heart).

In danger of fading from public acclaim, she
revitalized her career in the role of a fake
"spiritualist" who manages to actually make
contact with the dead in the tear-jerker Ghost
(movie)|Ghost, for which she won her first Academy
Award|Oscar award for best supporting actress. She
cemented her status as a legendary comedic actress
in 1992 as a lounge singer who is hidden in a
convent (and consequently revitalises their choir)
in Sister Act. She had a recurring role on Star
Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, which she
also reprised in two of the Star Trek feature
films.

Goldberg has appeared in 149 films as of October
2002. She has received two Oscar nominations and
won one. She has received five Daytime Emmy
Award|Daytime Emmy nominations, winning one. She
has received five Emmy Award|Emmy nominations. She
has received three Golden Globe nominations,
winning two. She has won three People's Choice
Awards. In 1999 she received the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her
continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian
community. She has been nominated for five
American Comedy Awards with two wins. In 2001 she
won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. She
also hosted the Oscars in 1994, 1996, 1999 and
2002.

Goldberg was paired with Jean Stapleton in the CBS
situation comedy|sitcom Bagdad Café (with a
plot differing from the 1987 movie in several
respects), which lasted two seasons (1990-1991).
She hosted a TV syndication|syndicated talk show
(The Whoopi Goldberg Show) in 1992-1993. She also
starred in the situation comedy|sitcom, Whoopi,
which began broadcasting in fall 2003 on NBC.
Whoopi starred as Mavis Rae, the owner of a small
New York Hotel (called the Le Mont Hotel). An
ex-singer in a girl group, Mavis was as much of a
diva running the hotel as she was in the group’s
glory days. The sitcom was cancelled due to low
ratings in May 2004.

Rather than the tradional autobiography, Goldberg
wrote "Book" in October 1997, a collection of
stories from her past and opinions.

In July 2004, Slim Fast, a popular dieting|diet
shake, dropped Goldberg from its advertisements in
response to popular opposition to statements
Goldberg made at a John Kerry rally in which
Goldberg repeatedly referred to President of the
United States|President George W. Bush and Vice
President of the United States|Vice President Dick
Cheney by pointing to her genital region. Here is
an excerpt of what she said:

:"I know I told you I'd get to this. (Reading from
label on wine bottle) 'When Bush comes to shove,
don't whine. Vote Kerry.'

:"And that's why I'm here tonight. Because I love
bush. But someone's giving bush a bad name.
Someone has tarnished the name of bush. Someone
has waged war, someone has deliberately misled the
country, someone has attempted to amend the
Constitution, all in the name of bush. The bush I
know and cherish would never do such things. My
bush is smarter than that. And if my bush is
smarter than that, you can understand just how
dumb I think that other bush is. And anyone who
would wave to Stevie Wonder is not fully there. I
will do whatever it takes to restore bush to its
rightful place — and that ain't in the White
House. Vote your heart and mind and keep bush
where it belongs."

In August 2004, Goldberg announced that she would
be reviving her one-woman show on Broadway at the
Lyceum Theatre.

Goldberg also hosts the Arts and Entertainment
section of Trivial Pursuit Unhinged, the PC game
from Atari.

Her stage name apparently came from her early
tendency to have gas onstage ("whoopy" being slang
for "flatulence").

==Filmography==
*Citizen (1982)
*The Color Purple (1985)
*Jumpin' Jack Flash (movie)|Jumpin' Jack Flash
(1986)
*Burglar (1987 movie)|Burglar (1987)
*Fatal Beauty (1987)
*The Telephone (1988)
*Clara's Heart (1988)
*Comicitis (1989) (short subject)
*Beverly Hills Brats (1989) (cameo
appearance|cameo)
*Homer & Eddie (1989)
*Ghost (1990)
*The Long Walk Home (1990)
*Wisecracks (1991) (documentary)
*Blackbird Fly (1991) (short subject)
*Soapdish (1991)
*The Player (1992)
*Sister Act (1992)
*Sarafina! (1992)
*The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992)
(documentary)
*Naked in New York (1993) (Cameo)
*National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (cameo)
*Made in America (1993)
*Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
*Liberation (1994) (documentary) (narrator)
*The Lion King (1994) (voice)
*The Little Rascals (1994 movie)|The Little
Rascals (1994)
*Corrina, Corrina (1994)
*Star Trek: Generations (1994)
*The Pagemaster (1994) (voice)
*Boys on the Side (1995)
*The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
*Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
*Theodore Rex (1995)
*Eddie (1996)
*Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood (1996)
(cameo)
*Bogus (1996)
*The Associate (1996)
*Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
*Pitch (1997) (documentary)
*Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
(documentary) (narrator)
*In & Out (1997) (Cameo)
*An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
(cameo)
*Alegria (1998)
*How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
*Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
*The Rugrats Movie (1998) (voice)
*Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
*The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
*Girl, Interrupted (1999)
*The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
(cameo)
*A Second Chance at Life (2000) (documentary)
(narrator)
*More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
*Golden Dreams (2001) (short subject)
*Kingdom Come (2001)
*Monkeybone (2001)
*Rat Race (2001)
*Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
*Showboy (2002) (Cameo)
*Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
*Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave
Narratives (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
*Bitter Jester (2003) (documentary)
*Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
*Beyond the Skyline (2003) (short subject)
*Blizzard (2003) (voice)
*Pinocchio 3000 (2004) (voice)
*The N-Word (2004) (documentary)
*SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) (cameo)
*Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (cameo)
*The Aristocrats (2005) (documentary)
*Racing Stripes (2005) (voice)

==TV Work==
*Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway (1985)
*Carol, Carl, Whoopi, and Robin (1987)
*Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight
(1988) (also writer)
*My Past Is My Own (1989)
*Kiss Shot (1989)
*Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown
(1990)
*Bagdad Cafe (1990–1991)
*Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990-1993)
(voice)
*Defenders of Dynatron City (1992) (voice)
*The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1992-1993)
*Yuletide in the 'hood (1993) (voice)
*A Cool Like That Christmas (1994) (voice)
*The Sunshine Boys (1995) (Cameo)
*Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995-1999) (voice)
*Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
(1997) (voice)
*Cinderella (1997)
*A Knight in Camelot (1998)
*Hollywood Squares (center square from 1998-2002)
(also producer)
*Alice in Wonderland (1999 movie)|Alice in
Wonderland (1999)
*Jackie's Back! (1999)
*Foxbusters (1999-2000) (voice)
*The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)
*What Makes a Family (2001) (also executive
producer)
*Call Me Claus (2001) (also executive producer)
*Madeline: My Fair Madeline (2002) (voice)
*It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
*Good Fences (2003) (also producer)
*Whoopi (2003–2004) (also executive
producer)
*Littleburg (2004) (canceled after five episodes)
*Whoopi: Back to Broadway - the 20th Anniversary
(2005) (also executive producer and writer)

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Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage
name, Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1949 in
Chelsea, Manhattan New York), is a well-known
American film|movie Actor|actress, comedian, and
singer.  She says she is both Catholic and Jewish.

After success as a Stand up comedian|stand-up
comedian in the San Francisco, California|San
Francisco Bay Area, Goldberg created a one woman
show in 1983 called The Spook Show. This show
caught the attention of Mike Nichols who produced
a one-woman show for Goldberg on broadway
theatre|Broadway, called simply Whoopi Goldberg,
which ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985
for a total of 156 performances. Goldberg's
performance caught the eye of Steven Spielberg,
who was inspired to cast Goldberg in her film
debut, an adaption of the award-winning novel The
Color Purple by Alice Walker. This performance
garnered her an Academy Award|Oscar nomination for
best actress in 1986. She followed up this
performance with a sell-out, highly acclaimed
one-woman show on Broadway. The majority of the
films she made in the 1980s featured her in
tough-woman comedic roles (Burglar
(movie)|Burglar, Fatal Beauty, Jumpin' Jack Flash
(movie)|Jumpin' Jack Flash), though she regularly
balanced them out by performing in family-oriented
films (Clara's Heart).

In danger of fading from public acclaim, she
revitalized her career in the role of a fake
"spiritualist" who manages to actually make
contact with the dead in the tear-jerker Ghost
(movie)|Ghost, for which she won her first Academy
Award|Oscar award for best supporting actress. She
cemented her status as a legendary comedic actress
in 1992 as a lounge singer who is hidden in a
convent (and consequently revitalises their choir)
in Sister Act. She had a recurring role on Star
Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, which she
also reprised in two of the Star Trek feature
films.

Goldberg has appeared in 149 films as of October
2002. She has received two Oscar nominations and
won one. She has received five Daytime Emmy
Award|Daytime Emmy nominations, winning one. She
has received five Emmy Award|Emmy nominations. She
has received three Golden Globe nominations,
winning two. She has won three People's Choice
Awards. In 1999 she received the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her
continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian
community. She has been nominated for five
American Comedy Awards with two wins. In 2001 she
won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. She
also hosted the Oscars in 1994, 1996, 1999 and
2002.

Goldberg was paired with Jean Stapleton in the CBS
situation comedy|sitcom Bagdad Café (with a
plot differing from the 1987 movie in several
respects), which lasted two seasons (1990-1991).
She hosted a TV syndication|syndicated talk show
(The Whoopi Goldberg Show) in 1992-1993. She also
starred in the situation comedy|sitcom, Whoopi,
which began broadcasting in fall 2003 on NBC.
Whoopi starred as Mavis Rae, the owner of a small
New York Hotel (called the Le Mont Hotel). An
ex-singer in a girl group, Mavis was as much of a
diva running the hotel as she was in the group’s
glory days. The sitcom was cancelled due to low
ratings in May 2004.

Rather than the tradional autobiography, Goldberg
wrote "Book" in October 1997, a collection of
stories from her past and opinions.

In August 2004, Goldberg announced that she would
be reviving her one-woman show on Broadway at the
Lyceum Theatre.

Goldberg also hosts the Arts and Entertainment
section of Trivial Pursuit Unhinged, the PC game
from Atari.

Her stage name apparently came from her early
tendency to have gas onstage ("whoopy" being slang
for "flatulence").

==Filmography==
*Citizen (1982)
*The Color Purple (1985)
*Jumpin' Jack Flash (movie)|Jumpin' Jack Flash
(1986)
*Burglar (1987 movie)|Burglar (1987)
*Fatal Beauty (1987)
*The Telephone (1988)
*Clara's Heart (1988)
*Comicitis (1989) (short subject)
*Beverly Hills Brats (1989) (cameo
appearance|cameo)
*Homer & Eddie (1989)
*Ghost (1990)
*The Long Walk Home (1990)
*Wisecracks (1991) (documentary)
*Blackbird Fly (1991) (short subject)
*Soapdish (1991)
*The Player (1992)
*Sister Act (1992)
*Sarafina! (1992)
*The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992)
(documentary)
*Naked in New York (1993) (Cameo)
*National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (cameo)
*Made in America (1993)
*Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
*Liberation (1994) (documentary) (narrator)
*The Lion King (1994) (voice)
*The Little Rascals (1994 movie)|The Little
Rascals (1994)
*Corrina, Corrina (1994)
*Star Trek: Generations (1994)
*The Pagemaster (1994) (voice)
*Boys on the Side (1995)
*The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
*Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
*Theodore Rex (1995)
*Eddie (1996)
*Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood (1996)
(cameo)
*Bogus (1996)
*The Associate (1996)
*Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
*Pitch (1997) (documentary)
*Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
(documentary) (narrator)
*In & Out (1997) (Cameo)
*An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
(cameo)
*Alegria (1998)
*How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
*Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
*The Rugrats Movie (1998) (voice)
*Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
*The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
*Girl, Interrupted (1999)
*The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
(cameo)
*A Second Chance at Life (2000) (documentary)
(narrator)
*More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
*Golden Dreams (2001) (short subject)
*Kingdom Come (2001)
*Monkeybone (2001)
*Rat Race (2001)
*Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
*Showboy (2002) (Cameo)
*Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
*Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave
Narratives (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
*Bitter Jester (2003) (documentary)
*Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
*Beyond the Skyline (2003) (short subject)
*Blizzard (2003) (voice)
*Pinocchio 3000 (2004) (voice)
*The N-Word (2004) (documentary)
*SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) (cameo)
*Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (cameo)
*The Aristocrats (2005) (documentary)
*Racing Stripes (2005) (voice)

==TV work==

*Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway (1985)
*Carol, Carl, Whoopi, and Robin (1987)
*Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight
(1988) (also writer)
*Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-1993)
*My Past Is My Own (1989)
*Kiss Shot (1989)
*Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown
(1990)
*Bagdad Cafe (1990–1991)
*Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990-1993)
(voice)
*Defenders of Dynatron City (1992) (voice)
*The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1992-1993)
*Yuletide in the 'hood (1993) (voice)
*A Cool Like That Christmas (1994) (voice)
*The Sunshine Boys (1995) (Cameo)
*Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995-1999) (voice)
*Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
(1997) (voice)
*Cinderella (1997)
*A Knight in Camelot (1998)
*Hollywood Squares (center square from 1998-2002)
(also producer)
*Alice in Wonderland (1999 movie)|Alice in
Wonderland (1999)
*Jackie's Back! (1999)
*Foxbusters (1999-2000) (voice)
*The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)
*What Makes a Family (2001) (also executive
producer)
*Call Me Claus (2001) (also executive producer)
*Madeline: My Fair Madeline (2002) (voice)
*It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
*Good Fences (2003) (also producer)
*Whoopi (2003–2004) (also executive
producer)
*Littleburg (2004) (canceled after five episodes)
*Whoopi: Back to Broadway - the 20th Anniversary
(2005) (also executive producer and writer)

She has made numerous guest appearances on Sesame
Street, and guest hosting Live with Regis and
Kelly.

== Discography ==
*Original Broadway Recording (1985)
*Sister Act 2 - Soundtrack (1993)

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0000155|name=Whoopi Goldberg
* http://www.acmewebpages.com/whoopi/index.html
ACME Biography of Whoopi Goldberg
*
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gol0int-1
Whoopi interview @ Achievement.org with online
video
*
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&u=/n
m/20040714/en_nm/people_goldberg_dc_3&printer=1
Slim-Fast drops Whoopi over anti-Bush riff
*
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688
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