Oprah Winfrey

Acting · Born 1954-01-29 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Biography

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954), also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.

Filmography

• The Color Purple as Sofia
• The Princess and the Frog as Eudora (voice)
• The Butler as Gloria Gaines
• Selma as Annie Lee Cooper
• Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Self (archive footage)
• The Six Triple Eight as Mary McLeod Bethune
• South Park: The End of Obesity as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Before the Flood as Self (archive footage)
• Spielberg as Self
• Life Itself as Self - TV Host (archive footage)

TV

• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Oprah Winfrey
• Drake & Josh as Oprah Winfrey
• Life as Self - Narrator, U.S. Broadcast (voice)
• Ellen as Therapist
• Gabriel's Fire
• Home Improvement as Oprah Winfrey
• The View as Self
• Rachael Ray
• Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
• E! True Hollywood Story