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