Whoopi Goldberg
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1955-11-13 (69 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, 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.
Known For
Acting
Flower of the Dawn
as Storyteller (voice)
(2026)
(2025)
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Aqua (voice)
(2025)
Leopardi & Co
as Mildred
(2024)
Babes
as Dawn's Breasts
(2024)
Ezra
as Jayne
(2024)
(2024)
Outlaw Posse
as Stagecoach Mary
(2024)
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Like Tears in Rain
as Self
(2024)
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self
(2024)
Atrabilious
as Dr. Andrea Hart
(2023)
The Color Purple
as Midwife (uncredited)
(2023)
(2023)
Three Trees
as (Narration)
(2023)
Our Barbara
as Self
(2023)
Barry Humphries at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
(2022)
Luck
as Captain (voice)
(2022)
Till
as Alma
(2022)
My Father's Dragon
as Cat (voice)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not
as Self
(2022)
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2021)
(2021)
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
as Self - Guest
(2021)
(2020)
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self - Co-host, "The View"
(2020)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Whoopi Goldberg (voice)
(2020)
(2020)
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Find Your Groove
as Self
(2020)
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
(2020)
Siempre, Luis
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
as Narrator
(2020)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2020)
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
as The Mother / The Ancient Booer
(2019)
(2019)
Cracked Up
as Self
(2019)
Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
as Self
(2019)
The Most Magnificent Thing
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Nobody's Fool
as Lola
(2018)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Furlough
as Moms
(2018)
(2018)
Trump @War
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
(2018)
Olympia
as Herself
(2018)
The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut
as Self - Host
(2017)
Descendants 2
as Ursula (voice) (uncredited)
(2017)
9/11
as Metzie
(2017)
Gilbert
as Self
(2017)
A Very Sordid Wedding
as Abernatha Coleman
(2017)
King of the Dancehall
as Loretta Brixton
(2017)
The Truth Is in the Stars
as Self
(2017)
The Problem with Apu
as Self
(2017)
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
as Yari (voice)
(2017)
(2017)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
as Herself
(2016)
50 Years of Star Trek
as Self
(2016)
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Misery Loves Comedy
as Self
(2015)
Black Dog, Red Dog
as Calliope
(2015)
(2015)
(2014)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Bernadette Thompson
(2014)
Top Five
as Self
(2014)
Big Stone Gap
as Fleeta Mullins
(2014)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
as Viola
(2013)
Blackfish
as Self
(2013)
(2013)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
as Guinan (archive footage)
(2013)
Miracle Rising: South Africa
as Self
(2013)
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
as Narrator
(2013)
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
as Self
(2013)
Moms Mabley
as Self
(2013)
(2012)
Katy Perry: Part of Me
as Self
(2012)
Radioman
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2011)
The Muppets
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2011)
A Little Bit of Heaven
as God
(2011)
The Little Engine That Could
as The Tower (voice)
(2011)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
as Narrator (voice)
(2010)
Toy Story 3
as Stretch (voice)
(2010)
For Colored Girls
as Alice / White
(2010)
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as (archive footage)
(2010)
Teenage Paparazzo
as Self
(2010)
See You in September
as Lindsay's Therapist (uncredited)
(2010)
The Black List: Volume Three
as Self
(2010)
New York Street Games
as Self
(2009)
Madea Goes to Jail
as Self
(2009)
Kambakkht Ishq
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2009)
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
(2009)
Stream
as Jodi Quinn
(2009)
Journey to the Stars
as Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Snow Buddies
as Miss Mittens (voice)
(2008)
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
as Taxi Driver
(2008)
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Descendants
as Red Flower (voice)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
The Sophisticated Misfit
as Self
(2006)
Everyone's Hero
as Darlin' (voice)
(2006)
Doogal
as Ermintrude (voice)
(2006)
Farce of the Penguins
as Helen (voice)
(2006)
The N Word
as Self
(2006)
Homie Spumoni
as Thelma
(2006)
(2005)
Racing Stripes
as Franny (voice)
(2005)
The Aristocrats
as Self
(2005)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2005)
Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway
as Herself / Fontaine / Lurleen / Crippled Lady
(2004)
The Lion King 1½
as Shenzi (voice)
(2004)
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2004)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Pinocchio 3000
as Cyberina (voice)
(2004)
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
as Self
(2004)
The World of Nat King Cole
as Self
(2003)
Pauly Shore Is Dead
as Whoopi Goldberg
(2003)
Blizzard
as Blizzard (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
Good Fences
as Mabel Spader
(2003)
Declaration of Independence
as Self
(2003)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
(2002)
Star Trek: Nemesis
as Guinan (uncredited)
(2002)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
as Daniel's 'Boss'
(2002)
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
as Miss Clavel (voice)
(2002)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
(2002)
Making Rat Race
as Herself
(2002)
The Hollywood Sign
as Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
(2002)
Showboy
as Herself
(2001)
Rat Race
as Vera Baker
(2001)
Monkeybone
as Death
(2001)
Call Me Claus
as Lucy Cullins
(2001)
Kingdom Come
as Raynelle Slocumb
(2001)
What Makes a Family
as Terry Harrison
(2001)
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
(2001)
Golden Dreams
as Califia, the Queen of California
(2001)
The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
as Self - Hostess
(2001)
Ghost: Remembering the Magic
as Self
(2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Judge Cameo (uncredited)
(2000)
(2000)
More Dogs Than Bones
as Cléo
(2000)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
as Self - Host / Narrator
(2000)
Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
as Self - Host
(1999)
Girl, Interrupted
as Valerie
(1999)
Alice in Wonderland
as Cheshire Cat
(1999)
The Deep End of the Ocean
as Candy Bliss
(1999)
Our Friend, Martin
as Mrs. Peck (voice)
(1999)
Get Bruce!
as Self
(1999)
Jackie's Back!
as Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's Sister)
(1999)
(1999)
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
as Baby Clown
(1998)
The Rugrats Movie
as Ranger Margaret (voice)
(1998)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Delilah Abraham
(1998)
Jackie Chan: My Story
as Self (uncredited)
(1998)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Stormella (voice)
(1998)
A Knight in Camelot
as Dr. Vivien Morgan
(1998)
Junket Whore
as Self
(1998)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
as Whoopi Goldberg
(1998)
Titey
as The Iceberg (voice)
(1997)
Cinderella
as Queen Constantina
(1997)
In & Out
as Whoopi Goldberg (uncredited)
(1997)
A Christmas Carol
as Spirit of Christmas Present (voice)
(1997)
In the Gloaming
as Nurse Myrna
(1997)
Destination Anywhere
as Cabbie
(1997)
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
as Mother Gooseberg (voice)
(1997)
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
(1997)
Pitch
as Self
(1996)
Bordello of Blood
as Hospital Patient (uncredited)
(1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi
as Myrlie Evers
(1996)
Bogus
as Harriet Franklin
(1996)
The Associate
as Laurel Ayres
(1996)
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
(1996)
Eddie
as Eddie Franklin
(1996)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self (archive footage)
(1996)
The Sunshine Boys
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1995)
Boys on the Side
as Jane Deluca
(1995)
Moonlight and Valentino
as Sylvie Morrow
(1995)
Theodore Rex
as Katie Coltrane
(1995)
The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge
as Self - Hostess
(1994)
The Lion King
as Shenzi (voice)
(1994)
The Little Rascals
as Buckwheat's Mom
(1994)
The Pagemaster
as Fantasy (voice)
(1994)
Star Trek: Generations
as Guinan (uncredited)
(1994)
Corrina, Corrina
as Corrina Washington
(1994)
Liberation
as Narrator
(1994)
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
But... Seriously
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
(1993)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Deloris Van Cartier
(1993)
Made in America
as Sarah Mathews
(1993)
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Billy York (uncredited)
(1993)
Naked in New York
as Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall
(1993)
Aretha Franklin: Duets
as Self
(1993)
A Cool Like That Christmas
as Mom / Irwin (voice)
(1992)
Sister Act
as Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence
(1992)
The Player
as Detective Avery
(1992)
Sarafina!
as Mary Masembuko
(1992)
(1992)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Time's Arrow
as Guinan (archive footage)
(1992)
Defenders of Dynatron City
as Ms. Megawatt (voice)
(1992)
(1991)
Soapdish
as Rose Schwartz
(1991)
House Party 2
as Professor (uncredited)
(1991)
(1991)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
as Guinan (archive footage)
(1991)
Chez Whoopi
as Self - Host
(1991)
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Ghost
as Oda Mae Brown
(1990)
The Long Walk Home
as Odessa Cotter
(1990)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
as Self (uncredited)
(1990)
Celebrity Guide to Wine
as Self
(1990)
Comic Relief '90
as Self
(1989)
Homer and Eddie
as Eddie Cervi
(1989)
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
as Self
(1989)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly
as Herself
(1989)
Kiss Shot
as Sarah Collins
(1989)
Beverly Hills Brats
as Self
(1989)
(1988)
Clara's Heart
as Clara Mayfield
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
The Telephone
as Vashti Blue
(1988)
Free to Be... a Family
as Self
(1988)
(1987)
Fatal Beauty
as Rita Rizzoli
(1987)
Burglar
as Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
(1987)
(1987)
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as Lu Lu - Constitutional Caterer
(1987)
Citizen Steve
as Self - Actress
(1987)
(1987)
(1987)
Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later
as Self - Host
(1986)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
as Terry Dolittle
(1986)
(1986)
The Making of Captain EO
as Self
(1986)
(1986)
The Best of Comic Relief
as Self
(1985)
The Color Purple
as Celie
(1985)
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1985)
(1982)
Crew
(2024)
Butterfly in the Sky
Executive Producer
(2022)
Till
Producer
(2022)
Caught in His Web
Executive Producer
(2022)
A New Orleans Noel
Executive Producer
(2013)
Moms Mabley
Director, Executive Producer, Producer
(2005)
(2003)
Good Fences
Producer
(2003)
The Piano Man's Daughter
Executive Producer
(2001)
Call Me Claus
Executive Producer
(2001)
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Executive Producer
(2001)
What Makes a Family
Executive Producer
(1999)
The Mao Game
Co-Producer
(1998)
Jackie Chan: My Story
Thanks
(1991)
Chez Whoopi
Executive Producer
(1985)