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 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.
Movies
Leopardi & Co
Mildred
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
Flower of the Dawn
Storyteller (voice)
Atrabilious
Dr. Andrea Hart
Ezra
Jayne
Babes
Dawn's Breasts
Outlaw Posse
Stagecoach Mary
The Color Purple
Midwife (uncredited)
Three Trees
(Narration)
My Father's Dragon
Cat (voice)
Till
Alma
Luck
Captain (voice)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Whoopi Goldberg (voice)
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Narrator
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Whoopi Goldberg
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
The Mother / The Ancient Booer
Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
(archive footage)
The Most Magnificent Thing
Narrator (voice)
Nobody's Fool
Lola
Furlough
Moms
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
Host
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
Yari (voice)
9/11
Metzie
Descendants 2
Ursula (voice) (uncredited)
A Very Sordid Wedding
Abernatha Coleman
King of the Dancehall
Loretta Brixton
Rio
Gayle Morgenstern
Black Dog, Red Dog
Calliope
Big Stone Gap
Fleeta Mullins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bernadette Thompson
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Viola
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
Guinan
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
Guinan (archive footage)
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Narrator
Python Legs!
The Muppets
Whoopi Goldberg
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Narrator (voice)
The Little Engine That Could
The Tower (voice)
A Little Bit of Heaven
God
For Colored Girls
Alice / White
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
(archive footage)
Toy Story 3
Stretch (voice)
See You in September
Lindsay's Therapist (uncredited)
Journey to the Stars
Narrator (voice)
Kambakkht Ishq
Whoopi Goldberg
Stream
Jodi Quinn
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Taxi Driver
Descendants
Red Flower (voice)
Snow Buddies
Miss Mittens (voice)
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
Mom
Farce of the Penguins
Helen (voz)
Comic Relief 2006
Homie Spumoni
Thelma
Everyone's Hero
Darlin' (voice)
Doogal
Ermintrude (voice)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Whoopi Goldberg
Racing Stripes
Franny (voice)
The Lion King 1½
Shenzi (voice)
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Whoopi Goldberg
Pinocchio 3000
Cyberina (voice)
New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup 2002-2003 Champions
Voice
Blizzard
Blizzard (voice)
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Whoopi Goldberg
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Narrator (voice)
Good Fences
Mabel Spader
Star Trek: Nemesis
Guinan (uncredited)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Daniel's 'Boss'
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
Miss Clavel (voice)
The Hollywood Sign
Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
Call Me Claus
Lucy Cullins
Rat Race
Vera Baker
Kingdom Come
Raynelle Slocumb
Monkeybone
Death
Golden Dreams
Califia, the Queen of California
What Makes a Family
Terry Harrison
More Dogs Than Bones
Cléo
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Judge Cameo (uncredited)
Girl, Interrupted
Valerie
Jackie's Back!
Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's Sister)
The Deep End of the Ocean
Candy Bliss
Alice in Wonderland
Cheshire Cat
Our Friend, Martin
Mrs. Peck (voice)
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
Baby Clown
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
The Rugrats Movie
Ranger Margaret (voice)
A Knight in Camelot
Dr. Vivien Morgan
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Stormella (voice)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Delilah Abraham
Titey
The Iceberg (voice)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Whoopi Goldberg
Creating Ragtime
Host
A Christmas Carol
Spirit of Christmas Present (voice)
Cinderella
Queen Constantina
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
Mother Gooseberg (voice)
In & Out
Whoopi Goldberg
Destination Anywhere
Cabbie
In the Gloaming
Nurse Myrna
Ghosts of Mississippi
Myrlie Evers
The Associate
Laurel Ayres
Bogus
Harriet Franklin
Bordello of Blood
Hospital Patient (uncredited)
The Sunshine Boys
Nurse (uncredited)
Eddie
Eddie Franklin
Theodore Rex
Katie Coltrane
Moonlight and Valentino
Sylvie Morrow
Boys on the Side
Jane Deluca
The Pagemaster
Fantasy (voice)
Star Trek: Generations
Guinan (uncredited)
Corrina, Corrina
Corrina Washington
The Little Rascals
Buckwheat's Mom
The Lion King
Shenzi (voice)
Liberation
Narrator
A Cool Like That Christmas
Mom / Irwin (voice)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Deloris Van Cartier
Naked in New York
Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Billy York (uncredited)
Made in America
Sarah Mathews
Sarafina!
Mary Masembuko
Wisecracks
Sister Act
Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence
The Player
Detective Avery
Defenders of Dynatron City
Ms. Megawatt (voice)
House Party 2
Professor (uncredited)
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
Narrator (voice)
Soapdish
Rose Schwartz
The Long Walk Home
Odessa Cotter
Ghost
Oda Mae Brown
Homer and Eddie
Eddie Cervi
Kiss Shot
Sarah Collins
Comic Relief III
Clara's Heart
Clara Mayfield
Whoopi Goldberg's Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
Fontaine
The Telephone
Vashti Blue
Fatal Beauty
Rita Rizzoli
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Lu Lu - Constitutional Caterer
Burglar
Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
Repairs
The Voice (voice)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Terry Dolittle
The Color Purple
Celie
Citizen
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Aqua (voice)
Sisters in Italy
TV Series
Harlem
Dr. Elise Pruitt
9 Episodes
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Marian Pouncy / Poundcakes (voice)
1 Episode
Hacks
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
The Stand
Abagail "Mother Abagail" Freemantle
9 Episodes
Staged
Mary
3 Episodes
Star Trek: Picard
Guinan
2 Episodes
Godfather of Harlem
Miss Willa
5 Episodes
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Whoopi Goldberg (voice)
1 Episode
Amphibia
Mother Olm (voice)
3 Episodes
Random Acts of Flyness
Police Officer
1 Episode
Summer Camp Island
Barb (voice)
16 Episodes
When We Rise
Pat Norman
4 Episodes
The Stinky & Dirty Show
Meg (voice)
2 Episodes
The Tick
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
Ask the Storybots
1 Episode
BoJack Horseman
Mikhaela (voice)
1 Episode
The 7D
Magic Mirror (voice)
6 Episodes
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Mrs. Rabbit (voice)
1 Episode
Suburgatory
Yakult (voice)
1 Episode
Bubble Guppies
Pirate Myra (voice)
1 Episode
Blue Bloods
Regina Thomas
1 Episode
The Middle
Jane Marsh
1 Episode
Glee
Carmen Tibideaux
6 Episodes
Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren
1 Episode
30 Rock
Whoopi Goldberg
2 Episodes
Rachael Ray
1 Episode
So NoTORIous
MaMa Belle
1 Episode
Everybody Hates Chris
Louise Clarkson
2 Episodes
Entourage
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
Whoopi's Littleburg
3 Episodes
Whoopi
Mavis Rae
22 Episodes
Liberty's Kids
Robert Shirtliff (voice)
40 Episodes
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
3 Episodes
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Chesley Watkins
1 Episode
The Weber Show
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
Strong Medicine
Dr. Lydia Emerson
4 Episodes
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Grand Banshee
2 Episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Janette Grayson
1 Episode
The Foxbusters
Ransome (voice)
26 Episodes
Hollywood Squares
30 Episodes
Celebrity Deathmatch
1 Episode
Bear in the Big Blue House
Edwina Badger (voice)
1 Episode
Pulp Comics
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Whoopi (voice)
1 Episode
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Zenobia (voice)
1 Episode
The Nanny
Whoopi Goldberg
1 Episode
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
32 Episodes
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 Episodes
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Gaia (voice)
65 Episodes
Bagdad Cafe
Brenda
15 Episodes
Tales from the Crypt
Peligre
1 Episode
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Guinan
28 Episodes
A Different World
Dr. Jordan
1 Episode
Moonlighting
Camille Brand
1 Episode
Muppet Babies
1 Episode
CBS Schoolbreak Special
Mariah Johnston
1 Episode
Saturday TV Funhouse
Iceberg (voice)
1 Episode
Kevin
Cupcake (Voice)
1 Episode
Anansi Boys
Bird Woman
4 Episodes