Actress Whoopi Goldberg
on 14 September, 2018
Caryn Elaine Johnson, more famously known as Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress, comedienne, author, and television host. Goldberg has been nominated thirteen times for the most prestigious Emmy awards. She is considered one of the very few artists to have ever won an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award and Tony Award. Whoopi was the second African-American woman to win an Academy Award for excellence in acting.
Her breakthrough role was Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in the period drama film ‘The Color Purple’ (1985). Her exceptional performance saw her nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and she won her first Golden Globe. For her role in the romantic fantasy film ‘Ghost’ (1990) as Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1992, she won her third Golden Globe nomination for her role in the comedy ‘Sister Act’. With the release of ‘Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit’ in 1993, Whoopi became the highest-paid actress at the time. Her other leading film on screen appearance include, ‘Made in America’ (1993), ‘The Lion King’ (1994), ‘Boys on the Side’ (1995), ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ (1996), ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ (1998), ‘Girl, Interrupted’ (1999), ‘For Colored Girls ‘(2010), and ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (2014). In 2009, Whoopi famously appeared as herself in the Bollywood hit ‘Kambakkht Ishq’.