Whoopi Goldberg
Known for Acting · 404 credits
- Born
- 1955-11-13 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Caryn Elaine Johnson · Whoopie Goldberg
Biography
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race. She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Dolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash. Her latest role is the voice of Stretch in Toy Story 3. Goldberg has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television. She was co-producer of the popular game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004. She has been the moderator of the daytime talk show The View since 2007. Goldberg has a Grammy, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, a Tony, and an Oscar. In addition, Goldberg has a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janette Grayson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Good Witch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
TV Shows (124)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janette Grayson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Good Witch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Blue Bloods
2010
as Regina Thomas
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Chesley Watkins
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest Host
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited) / The Iceberg (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Guinan
The View
1997
as Self - Moderator / Self - Co-Host
The Middle
2009
as Jane Marsh
Glee
2009
as Carmen Tibideaux
Hacks
2021
as Whoopi Goldberg
Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge / Self - Special Guest
The Nanny
1993
as Whoopi Goldberg / Edna
30 Rock
2006
as Whoopi Goldberg
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Mikhaela (voice)
Entourage
2004
as Whoopi Goldberg
Sherri
2022
as Self - Guest
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Hell's Kitchen
2005
as Self - Restaurant Patron
Wogan
1982
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Strong Medicine
2000
as Dr. Lydia Emerson
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Summer Camp Island
2018
as Barb (voice)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter
American Masters
1986
as Self
Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest
Amphibia
2019
as Mother Olm (voice)
The Drew Barrymore Show
2020
as Self - Guest
Moonlighting
1985
as Camille Brand
A Different World
1987
as Dr. Jordan
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Peligre
Star Trek: Picard
2020
as Guinan
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Godfather of Harlem
2019
as Miss Willa
Everybody Hates Chris
2005
as Louise Clarkson
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Gaia (voice)
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
Bubble Guppies
2011
as Pirate Myra (voice)
The 7D
2014
as Magic Mirror (voice)
The Oscars
1953
as Self / Self - Presenter
People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Winner
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010
as Self - Guest Judge
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
as Whoopi (voice)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
as Self
Broad City
2014
as Self
Suburgatory
2011
as Yakult (voice)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998
as Self
Movies (280)
The Lion King
1994
as Shenzi (voice)
Toy Story 3
2010
as Stretch (voice)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
as Bernadette Thompson
Ghost
1990
as Oda Mae Brown
Luck
2022
as Captain (voice)
Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Valerie
The Lion King 1½
2004
as Shenzi (voice)
The Little Rascals
1994
as Buckwheat's Mom
The Color Purple
1985
as Celie
Sister Act
1992
as Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence
The Muppets
2011
as Whoopi Goldberg
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016
as Self
Descendants 2
2017
as Ursula (voice) (uncredited)
The Player
1992
as Detective Avery
Racing Stripes
2005
as Franny (voice)
Rat Race
2001
as Vera Baker
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
as Deloris Van Cartier
Star Trek: Nemesis
2002
as Guinan (uncredited)
The Rugrats Movie
1998
as Ranger Margaret (voice)
Bordello of Blood
1996
as Hospital Patient (uncredited)
In & Out
1997
as Whoopi Goldberg
Babes
2024
as Dawn's Breasts
Monkeybone
2001
as Death
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Billy York (uncredited)
The Pagemaster
1994
as Fantasy (voice)
Ezra
2024
as Jayne
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
as Candy Bliss
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
as Judge Cameo (uncredited)
The Color Purple
2023
as Midwife (uncredited)
Star Trek: Generations
1994
as Guinan (uncredited)
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Cheshire Cat
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
as Whoopi Goldberg
Soapdish
1991
as Rose Schwartz
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
as Self
Everyone's Hero
2006
as Darlin' (voice)
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
as Stormella (voice)
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998
as Self (uncredited)
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
as Self
Till
2022
as Alma
Snow Buddies
2008
as Miss Mittens (voice)
The Associate
1996
as Laurel Ayres
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020
as (archive footage)
Blackfish
2013
as Self
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
as Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
as Self
Corrina, Corrina
1994
as Corrina Washington
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
as Delilah Abraham
Nobody's Fool
2018
as Lola
The Aristocrats
2005
as Self
Burglar
1987
as Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
Radioman
2012
as Self
Eddie
1996
as Eddie Franklin
Cinderella
1997
as Queen Constantina
Made in America
1993
as Sarah Mathews
Boys on the Side
1995
as Jane Deluca
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
as Self
For Colored Girls
2010
as Alice / White
Kambakkht Ishq
2009
as Whoopi Goldberg
9/11
2017
as Metzie
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
as Self
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011
as God
My Father's Dragon
2022
as Cat (voice)
Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012
as Self
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
as Self
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Aqua (voice)
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007
as Mom
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Kingdom Come
2001
as Raynelle Slocumb
Sarafina!
1992
as Mary Masembuko
Top Five
2014
as Whoopi Goldberg
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
as Self (archive footage)
50 Years of Star Trek
2016
as Self
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
as Self - Co-host, "The View"
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
as Myrlie Evers
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
Doogal
2006
as Ermintrude (voice)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
as Terry Dolittle
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
as Self
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Olympia
2018
as Self
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
as Self
The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World
2021
as Self - Host
Fatal Beauty
1987
as Rita Rizzoli
Theodore Rex
1995
as Katie Coltrane
Bogus
1996
as Harriet Franklin
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
as Self
The Long Walk Home
1990
as Odessa Cotter
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013
as Guinan (archive footage)
A Knight in Camelot
1998
as Dr. Vivien Morgan
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
as Self
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
as Sylvie Morrow
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Helen (voz)
Naked in New York
1993
as Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall
Our Friend, Martin
1999
as Mrs. Peck (voice)
Pinocchio 3000
2004
as Cyberina (voice)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002
as Daniel's 'Boss'
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
as Taxi Driver
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
as Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self
The N Word
2006
as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
as Whoopi Goldberg
Find Your Groove
2020
as Self
Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk
2026
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
as Whoopi Goldberg
A Very Sordid Wedding
2017
as Abernatha Coleman
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Call Me Claus
2001
as Lucy Cullins
Declaration of Independence
2003
as Self
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Whoopi Goldberg
Gilbert
2017
as Self
Blizzard
2003
as Blizzard (voice)
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022
as Self
The Little Engine That Could
2011
as The Tower (voice)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
2014
as Viola
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
as The Mother / The Ancient Booer
About Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance… With 404 credits spanning from 1953 to 2028, Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in 280 films and 124 TV shows.
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Most Popular Whoopi Goldberg Movies
- The Lion King (1994) — as Shenzi (voice)
- Toy Story 3 (2010) — as Stretch (voice)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) — as Bernadette Thompson
- Ghost (1990) — as Oda Mae Brown
- Luck (2022) — as Captain (voice)
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