Whoopi Goldberg

**Whoopi Goldberg** (born **Caryn Elaine Johnson**; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, author and talk show host. She made her movie debut in _The Color Purple_ which she won a Golden Globe Award. Goldberg was partners with Frank Langella from 1996 until they separated in 2001. She is currently a co-host on _The View_.

In 2022, Goldberg was temporarily banned from _The View_ for making insensitive comments regarding the Holocaust.
In 2024 Goldberg claimed that a Staten Island Holterman Bakery [in business for 142 years] did not fulfill her order because of her policital positions (Kamala Harris supporter); in fact the order could not be fulfilled because the bakery had equipment problems with their 1930 boiler

## Early life

Goldberg had a daughter when she was 18 years old. She became a grandmother when she was 34.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1982|_Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away_||||
|1985|_The Color Purple_|Celie Harris Johnson|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture National Board of Review Award for Best Actress Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress||
|1986|_Jumpin' Jack Flash_|Terri Doolittle|||
|rowspan=2|1987|_Burglar_|Bernice Rhodenbarr||
|_Fatal Beauty_|Rita Rizzoli|NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|rowspan=2|1988|_The Telephone_|Vashti Blue|Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress|
|_Clara's Heart_|Clara Mayfield||||
|rowspan=3|1989|_Comicitis_|Herself|Short subject|
|_Beverly Hills Brats_|Herself|Cameo|||
|_Homer and Eddie_|Eddie Cervi||||
|rowspan=2|1990|_Ghost_|Oda Mae Brown|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – TV Land Award for Favorite Character from the "Other Side"|
|_The Long Walk Home_|Odessa Cotter|NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|rowspan=5|1991|_Wisecracks_|Herself|Documentary|
|_Blackbird Fly_|Herself|Short subject|||
|_Soapdish_|Rose Schwartz||||
|_House Party 2_|The Professor|Uncredited|||
|_Dragon and Slippers_|Matilda the Witch (voice)|English version|||
|rowspan=4|1992|_Sister Act_|Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence|American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance|
|_The Player_|Detective Susan Avery||||
|_Sarafina!_|Mary Masembuko||||
|_The Magical World of Chuck Jones_|Herself|Documentary|||
|rowspan=4|1993|_National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon_|Sgt. Billy York|Uncredited cameo|
|_Naked in New York_|Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall||||
|_Made in America_|Sarah Mathews||||
|_Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit_|Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence|Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance|||
|rowspan=6|1994|_Liberation_|Narrator|Documentary|
|_The Lion King_|Shenzi|Voice|||
|_The Little Rascals_|Buckwheat's Mom||||
|_Corrina, Corrina_|Corrina Washington||||
|_Star Trek Generations_|Guinan|Uncredited Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress|||
|_The Pagemaster_|Fantasy|Voice|||
|rowspan=4|1995|_Boys on the Side_|Jane Deluca||
|_The Celluloid Closet_|Herself|Documentary|||
|_Moonlight and Valentino_|Sylvie Morrow||||
|_Theodore Rex_|Katie Coltrane|Fantafestival Award for Best Actress Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress|||
|rowspan=5|1996|_Eddie_|Edwina "Eddie" Franklin|Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress|
|_Bordello of Blood_|Hospital Patient|Uncredited|||
|_Bogus_|Harriet Franklin|Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actress|||
|_The Associate_|Laurel Ayres/Robert S. Cutty||||
|_Ghosts of Mississippi_|Myrlie Evers|Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|rowspan=7|1997|_Pitch_|Herself|Documentary, uncredited|
|_Mary Pickford: A Life on Film_|Host/narrator|Documentary|||
|_A Christmas Carol_|The Ghost of Christmas Present|Voice|||
|_Destination Anywhere_|Cabbie||||
|_In the Gloaming_|Nurse Myrna||||
|_In & Out_|Herself|Uncredited|||
|_An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn_|Herself|Special appearance Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple <small>(with any combination of two people playing themselves)</small>|||
|rowspan=8|1998|_Titey_|The Iceberg|Voice|
|_Alegría_|Baby Clown||||
|_A Knight in Camelot_|Dr. Vivien Morgan/Sir Boss||||
|_How Stella Got Her Groove Back_|Delilah Abraham|NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – Acapulco Black Film Festival Black Film Award for Best Actress Nominated – American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|_Junket Whore_|Herself|Documentary|||
|_Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie_|Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen||||
|_The Rugrats Movie_|Ranger Margaret||||
|_Alice in Wonderland_|Cheshire Cat||||
|rowspan=3|1999|_Get Bruce_|Herself|Documentary|
|_The Deep End of Ocean_|Candy Bliss||||
|_Girl, Interrupted_|Valerie Owens, R.N.||||
|rowspan=3|2000|_The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_|Judge Cameo|Not listed in final credits|
|_A Second Chance at Life_|Narrator|Documentary|||
|_More Dogs Than Bones_|Cleo||||
|rowspan=6|2001|_Golden Dreams_|Calafia, the Queen of California (Narrator)|Short subject|
|_Kingdom Come_|Raynelle Slocumb|Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|_Monkeybone_|Death||||
|_Rat Race_|Vera Baker||||
|_The Hollywood Sign_|Woman at Funeral|Cameo|||
|_Call Me Claus_|Lucy Cullin||||
|rowspan=5|2002|_Searching for Debra Winger_|Herself|Documentary|
|_Showboy_|Herself|Cameo|||
|_My Fair Madeline_|Miss Clavel|Voice|||
|_Star Trek: Nemesis_|Guinan|Uncredited|||
|_It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie_|The Boss||||
|rowspan=5|2003|_Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives_|Narrator|Documentary|
|_Pauly Shore Is Dead_|Herself||||
|_Bitter Jester_|Herself||||
|_Beyond the Skyline_|Herself|Short subject|||
|_Blizzard_|Blizzard|Voice|||
|rowspan=5|2004|_Pinocchio 3000_|Cyberina|Voice|
|_The N-Word_|Herself|Documentary|||
|_SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2_|Herself||||
|_Jiminy Glick in Lalawood_|Herself||||
|_The Lion King 1½_|Shenzi|Voice|||
|rowspan=5|2005|_The Aristocrats_|Herself|Documentary|
|_Racing Stripes_|Frannie|Voice|||
|_Doogal_|Ermintrude The Cow|Voice|||
|_Everyone's Hero_|Darlin'||||
|_Farce of the Penguins_|Helen||||
|rowspan=6|2007|_Homie Spumoni_|Thelma||
|_If I Had Known I Was a Genius_|Mrs. Reed||||
|_Nuremberg: A Vision Restored_|Herself|Documentary|||
|_Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project_|Herself|Documentary|||
|_Our Country USA to Z_|Herself|Voice; short subject|||
|_The Sophisticated Misfit_|Herself|Documentary|||
|rowspan=3|2008|_Stream_|Jodi Quinn||
|_Snow Buddies_|Miss Mittens|Voice|||
|_Descendants_|Red Flower|Voice|||
|rowspan=2|2009|_Madea Goes to Jail_|Herself|Cameo|
|_Stream_|Jodi||||
|rowspan=4|2010|_Toy Story 3_|Stretch|Voice Nominated – IGN Movie Award for Best Ensemble Cast|
|_For Colored Girls_|Alice|Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture|||
|_Teenage Paparazzo_|Herself||||
|_New York Street Games_|Herself|Documentary|||
|rowspan=3|2011|_A Little Bit of Heaven_|God||
|_The Little Engine That Could_|Tower||||
|_The Muppets_|Herself||||
|_Big Stone Gap_|Fleeta||||
|_Top Five_|Herself||||
|_A Day Late and a Dollar Short_|Viola||||
|_TCB Baby_|Dr. Reynolds||||
|rowspan=2|2016|_A Warrior's Tail_|Mom Jozee|Voice, English version|
|_King of the Dancehall_|Loretta Brixton||||
|2017|_9/11_|Metzie|||
|rowspan=2|2018|_Furlough_|Mrs. Stevens||
|_Nobody's Fool_|Lola||||

### Won

- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Color Purple (1985)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for The Color Purple (1985)
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for The Color Purple (1985)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Fatal Beauty (1987)
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost (1990)
- American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Ghost (1990)
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Ghost (1990)
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Ghost (1990)
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost (1990)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Ghost (1990)
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost (1990)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for The Long Walk Home (1990)
- American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture for Sister Act (1992)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Sister Act (1992)
- Fantafestival Award for Best Actress for Theodore Rex (1995)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award (1999)
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2001)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for Good Fences (2003)
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for The View (2009) - she shares it with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters.

### Nominated

- Academy Award for Best Actress for The Color Purple (1985)
- Razzie Award for Worst Actress for The Telephone (1988)
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical for Sister Act (1992)
- MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance for Sister Act (1992)
- MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for Sister Act (1992)
- MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance for Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Star Trek Generations (1994)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- Acapulco Black Film Festival Black Film Award for Best Actress for How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Kingdom Come (2001)
- Black Reel Award for Television: Best Actress for Good Fences (2003)

## Infobox (comedian)

- **name**: Whoopi Goldberg
- **image**: Whoopi Goldberg by John Mathew Smith.jpg
- **caption**: Goldberg on February 8, 1998
- **birth name**: Caryn Elaine Johnson
- **birth place**: New York City, U.S.
- **active**: 1982–present
- **medium**: Stand-up comedy, movie, television, theatre, musical theatre, books
- **genre**: Observational comedy, black comedy, insult comedy, surreal humor, character comedy, satire
- **subject**: African-American culture, Politics of the United States, American politics, Sociology of race and ethnic relations, race relations, racism, marriage, sex, everyday life, popular culture, news, current events
- **spouse**:

- **children**: Alex Martin, Alexandrea Martin
- **signature**: Whoopi Goldberg's signature.svg