Whoopi Goldberg

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1955-11-13 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Whoopi Goldberg

Biography

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...

Acting

1994

Star Trek: Generations

as Guinan (uncredited)

2002

Star Trek: Nemesis

as Guinan (uncredited)

1990

Ghost

as Oda Mae Brown

1985

2010

Toy Story 3

as Stretch (voice)

1999

1992

Sister Act

as Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence

1996

Bogus

as Harriet Franklin

1992

The Player

as Detective Avery

1994

Corrina, Corrina

as Corrina Washington

1994

The Little Rascals

as Buckwheat's Mom

1986

Jumpin' Jack Flash

as Terry Dolittle

1996

Eddie

as Eddie Franklin

1996

The Associate

as Laurel Ayres

2004

The Lion King 1½

as Shenzi (voice)

1993

Naked in New York

as Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall

1993

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

as Deloris Van Cartier

1999

Alice in Wonderland

as Cheshire Cat

1999

1996

Ghosts of Mississippi

as Myrlie Evers

2001

Monkeybone

as Death

1998

A Knight in Camelot

as Dr. Vivien Morgan

2006

Doogal

as Ermintrude (voice)

1994

The Lion King

as Shenzi (voice)

1993

Made in America

as Sarah Mathews

1991

Soapdish

as Rose Schwartz

1998

1995

Boys on the Side

as Jane Deluca

1987

Citizen Steve

as Self - Actress

1993

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

as Billy York (uncredited)

2001

Rat Race

as Vera Baker

1987

Fatal Beauty

as Rita Rizzoli

2024

1992

Sarafina!

as Mary Masembuko

1999

Jackie's Back!

as Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's Sister)

1998

The Rugrats Movie

as Ranger Margaret (voice)

1995

Theodore Rex

as Katie Coltrane

2022

Luck

as Captain (voice)

1997

Cinderella

as Queen Constantina

2008

Descendants

as Red Flower (voice)

1994

The Pagemaster

as Fantasy (voice)

2006

Everyone's Hero

as Darlin' (voice)

2005

2009

Kambakkht Ishq

as Whoopi Goldberg

2003

Good Fences

as Mabel Spader

1997

In the Gloaming

as Nurse Myrna

1991

House Party 2

as Professor (uncredited)

2010

For Colored Girls

as Alice / White

1987

Burglar

as Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr

1997

A Christmas Carol

as Spirit of Christmas Present (voice)

2001

Call Me Claus

as Lucy Cullins

1998

Titey

as The Iceberg (voice)

1989

Homer and Eddie

as Eddie Cervi

1995

Moonlight and Valentino

as Sylvie Morrow

1999

Get Bruce!

as Self

1989

Kiss Shot

as Sarah Collins

1990

The Long Walk Home

as Odessa Cotter

1992

1997

Pitch

as Self

2011

The Little Engine That Could

as The Tower (voice)

1988

Clara's Heart

as Clara Mayfield

1988

The Telephone

as Vashti Blue

2011

2005

Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway

as Herself / Fontaine / Lurleen / Crippled Lady

2002

Madeline: My Fair Madeline

as Miss Clavel (voice)

2022

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

as Self (archive footage)

2001

What Makes a Family

as Terry Harrison

2000

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

as Self - Host / Narrator

2024

Outlaw Posse

as Stagecoach Mary

2004

Pinocchio 3000

as Cyberina (voice)

2023

Barry Humphries at the BBC

as Self (archive material)

2009

Journey to the Stars

as Narrator (voice)

2022

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

as Self (archive footage)

2018

1996

Bordello of Blood

as Hospital Patient (uncredited)

2022

My Father's Dragon

as Cat (voice)

2012

Radioman

as Self

2025

Leopardi & Co

as Mildred

1994

Liberation

as Narrator

2024

Atrabilious

as Dr. Andrea Hart

1991

1991

Chez Whoopi

as Self - Host

1997

Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

1994

But... Seriously

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Snow Buddies

as Miss Mittens (voice)

2014

Top Five

as Self

2023

The Color Purple

as Midwife (uncredited)

1999

Our Friend, Martin

as Mrs. Peck (voice)

2006

Homie Spumoni

as Thelma

2008

Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1992

Defenders of Dynatron City

as Ms. Megawatt (voice)

2009

Stream

as Jodi Quinn

2024

Ezra

as Jayne

2005

Racing Stripes

as Franny (voice)

2017

Descendants 2

as Ursula (voice) (uncredited)

2023

Three Trees

as (Narration)

2014

Big Stone Gap

as Fleeta Mullins

2014

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

as Bernadette Thompson

2023

1997

2001

Kingdom Come

as Raynelle Slocumb

-

Flower of the Dawn

as Storyteller (voice)

2024

Babes

as Dawn's Breasts

2010

1998

2015

1996

The Sunshine Boys

as Nurse (uncredited)

1987

2000

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

as Judge Cameo (uncredited)

2005

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

as Whoopi Goldberg

2017

Gilbert

as Self

2017

9/11

as Metzie

2001

Golden Dreams

as Califia, the Queen of California

2003

Pauly Shore Is Dead

as Whoopi Goldberg

1998

Jackie Chan: My Story

as Self (uncredited)

1997

In & Out

as Whoopi Goldberg

2002

The Hollywood Sign

as Woman at Funeral (uncredited)

2002

Showboy

as Herself

2004

2006

Farce of the Penguins

as Helen (voice)

2010

See You in September

as Lindsay's Therapist (uncredited)

2011

The Muppets

as Whoopi Goldberg

2017

King of the Dancehall

as Loretta Brixton

2013

Blackfish

as Self

2017

A Very Sordid Wedding

as Abernatha Coleman

2004

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Furlough

as Moms

2018

1996

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Trump @War

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Olympia

as Herself

2003

Blizzard

as Blizzard (voice)

2019

The Most Magnificent Thing

as Narrator (voice)

1993

A Cool Like That Christmas

as Mom / Irwin (voice)

2020

My Darling Vivian

as Self (archive footage)

2020

2020

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

as Self - Co-host, "The View"

2020

Siempre, Luis

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

as Whoopi Goldberg (voice)

2006

The N Word

as Self

2019

Cracked Up

as Self

1994

The Making of 'The Pagemaster'

as Self (archive footage)

2021

2022

Till

as Alma

1990

2002

Making Rat Race

as Herself

2020

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

as The Mother / The Ancient Booer

2017

Rio

as Gayle Morgenstern

Production

2001

Call Me Claus

as Executive Producer

2024

Butterfly in the Sky

as Executive Producer

2001

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

as Executive Producer

2022

Till

as Producer

1991

Chez Whoopi

as Executive Producer

2022

Caught in His Web

as Executive Producer

2022

A New Orleans Noel

as Executive Producer

2003

Good Fences

as Producer

2001

What Makes a Family

as Executive Producer

2013

1999

The Mao Game

as Co-Producer

2003

The Piano Man's Daughter

as Executive Producer

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