Whoopi Goldberg's biography

Whoopi Goldberg is 67 years old television actor born at United States of America. She was born on Sunday 13th of November 1955. She is often nicknamed as Da WhoopShuttle Head. According to year of birth 1955 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 13th of November means she is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.She was married 3 times.

She is citizen of United States of America. She is an adherent of christianity. Her primary profession is to be television actor. You can know her also as film actor, radio personality, singer-songwriter, singer, composer, writer, novelist, voice actor, talk show host, character actor, stage actor, children's writer, comedian, film producer, television presenter, screenwriter, theatrical producer, manufacturer. She is recently known as television producer. She received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Ghost in 1989

Whoopi Goldberg's family

Whoopi Goldberg's ex spouses

Lyle Trachtenberg

Whoopi Goldberg and Lyle Trachtenberg have been together since 1994 for a year. He is known as actor.

David Claessen

Whoopi Goldberg and David Claessen have been together since 1986 for 2 years. He is known as cinematographer. Her ex spouse was born on Friday 6th of March 1959 in Haarlem.

Alvin Martin

Whoopi Goldberg and Alvin Martin have been together since 1973 for 6 years.

She has 1 daughter.

Whoopi Goldberg's daughter: Alex Martin

Whoopi Goldberg's daughter's name is Alex Martin. She is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Sunday 9th of May 1971 in Queens.

Whoopi Goldberg's schools

We found 3 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: New York University, Washington Irving High School, HB Studio.

Whoopi Goldberg's career

Her main focus is to be television actor and composing. She is famous thanks to The Color Purple. You could see her also in Ghost.

Awards and competitions

Whoopi Goldberg's Awards

1994: Became the very first woman to host the Academy Awards solo.
She won a Grammy Award for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway".
2002: Won a Tony Award as a producer for Best Musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie".
1985: Won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical for "Original Broadway Show Recording".
Was the second African-American woman to receive an Academy Award. The first was Hattie McDaniel.
Michael J. Fox accompanied her to the 1986 Academy Awards when she was nominated for The Color Purple (1985).
She was awarded the Annual Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.
Was the first woman to host the Academy Awards on her own. She hosted them in 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2002.
Is one of only 15 individuals who have received an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (counting Daytime Emmy Awards).
Is one of two African-American actresses (the other being Viola Davis) to have been nominated for an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6841 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on July 20, 2001.
Was the 101st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Ghost (1990) at The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991) on March 25, 1991.
She and fellow The Lion King (1994) cast member Jeremy Irons were both nominees for the first ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator (2014); Irons won.
30 years after winning the Golden Globe Award for playing Celie Johnson in The Color Purple (1985), she won the "Vintage Performance by an Actress in 1985" at the first Vintage Film Awards.

Whoopi Goldberg's Rankings

Her performance as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990) is ranked #95 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Whoopi Goldberg's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The Color Purple in 1985
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Ghost in 1990
She was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for work The Telephone in 1989

What Whoopi Goldberg has done for a first time

1994: Became the very first woman to host the Academy Awards solo.
Was the second African-American woman to receive an Academy Award. The first was Hattie McDaniel.
Was the first woman to host the Academy Awards on her own. She hosted them in 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2002.
When signing autographs, she only signs her first name Whoopi.
She and fellow The Lion King (1994) cast member Jeremy Irons were both nominees for the first ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator (2014); Irons won.
30 years after winning the Golden Globe Award for playing Celie Johnson in The Color Purple (1985), she won the "Vintage Performance by an Actress in 1985" at the first Vintage Film Awards.
Is only two months older than Geena Davis, who became a first-time mother 13 years after Whoopi became a grandmother.

Whoopi Goldberg's quotes

[on critics, on the Queen Latifah Show (1999)] You can say whatever you want about me, but talk about my daughter and I'll beat your ass up.
[while hosting the The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999)] A Bug's Life (1998). Wasn't that the Linda Tripp Story?
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
[on Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple", on her efforts to get a role in the film (The Color Purple (1985)) that was made from it] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Actors have no color. That's the art form.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
[on Showgirls (1995)] I haven't seen that many poles mistreated since World War II.
Most kids give you a watch or a wallet on your birthday, or a pocketbook or some flowers. My kid gave me a granddaughter instead. It was the best gift she could ever have given me.
I'm as American as Chevrolet.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
[on smoking marijuana] Just because I do it doesn't mean you should do it.
[on her Academy Award for Ghost (1990)] I've said it before and I'll say it again: because of Patrick Swayze, I got that movie. Because of Patrick Swayze, I have an Oscar.
I wish I had known sooner that I like being on my own. If I'd figured that out earlier, I probably wouldn't have gotten married three times.
There's only one alternative to getting older, so suck it up.
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor. I can play anything.
[on Judy Garland] When she sang, God spoke.
[my role in] Ghost was written for a woman called Teresa Wright, I think. They wouldn't let me audition for Ghost. It wasn't until Patrick Swayze said, 'I am not doing this movie unless you audition her.'
[on Jill Biden] I'm hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general. She's a hell of a doctor. She's an amazing doctor.
[on the misperception that she only dates white] Nobody ever wrote about it when I was with a brother.
The Holocaust isn't about race.
People keep saying it's free speech, but all speech is not free speech. Some speech is not okay free speech.

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