Whoopi Goldberg
Acting
1955-11-13 · New York City, New York, USA
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is 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.
Filmography
TheatersCaptain Zero: The Movie
2028 · Movie
TheatersPierre the Pigeon-Hawk
2027 · Movie
TheatersTribeca 25
2026 · Movie
Kevin
2026 · Series
Leopardi & Co
2025 · Movie
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
2025 · Movie
Flower of the Dawn
2025 · Movie
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II
2025 · Movie
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · Series
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Movie
Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams
2024 · Movie
Like Tears in Rain
2024 · Movie
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · Movie
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
Atrabilious
2024 · Movie
Group Therapy
2024 · Movie
Ezra
2024 · Movie
Babes
2024 · Movie
Butterfly in the Sky
2024 · Movie
Outlaw Posse
2024 · Movie
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
2024 · Movie
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023 · Movie
The Color Purple
2023 · Movie
Three Trees
2023 · Movie
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023 · Movie
Commitment to Life
2023 · Movie
Our Barbara
2023 · Movie
A New Orleans Noel
2022 · Movie
My Father's Dragon
2022 · Movie
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022 · Movie
Till
2022 · Movie
Music Is My Life: Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2022 · Movie
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Movie
Cuomo
2022 · Series
Sherri
2022 · Series
Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20
2022 · Movie
Luck
2022 · Movie
Tony Bennett: Forget Me Not
2022 · Movie
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
2022 · Movie
Caught in His Web
2022 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022 · Movie
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022 · Movie
JANET JACKSON.
2022 · Series
Harlem
2021 · Series
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021 · Series
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021 · Movie
The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World
2021 · Movie
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021 · Movie
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
2021 · Series
Hacks
2021 · Series
The Story of Late Night
2021 · Series
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
2021 · Movie
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020 · Movie
The Stand
2020 · Series
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020 · Movie
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
2020 · Movie
The Con
2020 · Series
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 · Movie
The Drew Barrymore Show
2020 · Series
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020 · Movie
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Movie
My Darling Vivian
2020 · Movie
Staged
2020 · Series
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020 · Movie
Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway
2020 · Movie
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 · Movie
Find Your Groove
2020 · Movie
Star Trek: Picard
2020 · Series
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020 · Movie
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019 · Movie
Godfather of Harlem
2019 · Series
The Most Magnificent Thing
2019 · Movie
Cracked Up
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Series
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019 · Series
Amphibia
2019 · Series
Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
2019 · Movie
Desus & Mero
2019 · Series
Lorena
2019 · Series
Olympia
2018 · Movie
Nobody's Fool
2018 · Movie
Trump @War
2018 · Movie
Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Series
The Shop
2018 · Series
Random Acts of Flyness
2018 · Series
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018 · Movie
Summer Camp Island
2018 · Series
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018 · Series
The Gospel According to André
2018 · Movie
Furlough
2018 · Movie
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018 · Movie
Citizen Rose
2018 · Series
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
2017 · Movie
The Problem with Apu
2017 · Movie
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017 · Movie
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017 · Movie
9/11
2017 · Movie
Descendants 2
2017 · Movie
The Nineties
2017 · Series
The Truth Is in the Stars
2017 · Movie
Gilbert
2017 · Movie
A Very Sordid Wedding
2017 · Movie
When We Rise
2017 · Series
King of the Dancehall
2017 · Movie
Rio
2017 · Movie
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time
2016 · Movie
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
2016 · Movie
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016 · Movie
Strut
2016 · Series
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · Movie
The Stinky & Dirty Show
2016 · Series
The Tick
2016 · Series
50 Years of Star Trek
2016 · Movie
Ask the Storybots
2016 · Series
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
2016 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015 · Movie
The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank
2015 · Movie
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015 · Series
Misery Loves Comedy
2015 · Movie
Top Five
2014 · Movie
Big Stone Gap
2014 · Movie
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 · Movie
The 7D
2014 · Series
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Broad City
2014 · Series
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale
2013 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013 · Series
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
2013 · Movie
Blackfish
2013 · Movie
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013 · Movie
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013 · Movie
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013 · Movie
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
2013 · Movie
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012 · Movie
Radioman
2012 · Movie
666 Park Avenue
2012 · Series
Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012 · Movie
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012 · Movie
Python Legs!
2012 · Movie
The Muppets
2011 · Movie
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2011 · Movie
Suburgatory
2011 · Series
The Little Engine That Could
2011 · Movie
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011 · Movie
Bubble Guppies
2011 · Series
For Colored Girls
2010 · Movie
Blue Bloods
2010 · Series
Teenage Paparazzo
2010 · Movie
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010 · Movie
New York Street Games
2010 · Movie
Toy Story 3
2010 · Movie
The Black List: Volume Three
2010 · Movie
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010 · Series
See You in September
2010 · Movie
Head Games
2009 · Series
The Middle
2009 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009 · Movie
Journey to the Stars
2009 · Movie
Kambakkht Ishq
2009 · Movie
Glee
2009 · Series
Star Trek: The Captain's Summit
2009 · Movie
The Justin Lee Collins Show
2009 · Series
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
Madea Goes to Jail
2009 · Movie
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · Series
Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren
2009 · Series
Stream
2009 · Movie
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008 · Movie
Shatner's Raw Nerve
2008 · Series
Descendants
2008 · Movie
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
2008 · Movie
Snow Buddies
2008 · Movie
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest
2008 · Movie
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
2007 · Movie
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007 · Movie
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007 · Movie
The Sophisticated Misfit
2007 · Movie
The Word According to Whoopi
2007 · Series
Elton 60: Live At Madison Square Garden
2007 · Movie
Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The Naked Brothers Band
2007 · Series
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007 · Movie
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006 · Series
Farce of the Penguins
2006 · Movie
Comic Relief 2006
2006 · Movie
30 Rock
2006 · Series
Rachael Ray
2006 · Series
Homie Spumoni
2006 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Everyone's Hero
2006 · Movie
Just for Kicks
2006 · Series
So NoTORIous
2006 · Series
Doogal
2006 · Movie
The N Word
2006 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · Series
Everybody Hates Chris
2005 · Series
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005 · Series
The Aristocrats
2005 · Movie
Hell's Kitchen
2005 · Series
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway
2005 · Movie
Racing Stripes
2005 · Movie
The Lion King 1½
2004 · Movie
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
2004 · Movie
Entourage
2004 · Series
The World of Nat King Cole
2004 · Movie
Pinocchio 3000
2004 · Movie
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004 · Movie
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Movie
Whoopi's Littleburg
2004 · Series
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004 · Movie
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003 · Movie
The Piano Man's Daughter
2003 · Movie
Whoopi
2003 · Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup 2002-2003 Champions
2003 · Movie
Declaration of Independence
2003 · Movie
Blizzard
2003 · Movie
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Good Fences
2003 · Movie
Star Trek: Nemesis
2002 · Movie
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002 · Movie
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
2002 · Movie
The Hollywood Sign
2002 · Movie
Liberty's Kids
2002 · Series
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002 · Series
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
Showboy
2002 · Movie
Making Rat Race
2002 · Movie
The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
2001 · Movie
Call Me Claus
2001 · Movie
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
2001 · Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Rat Race
2001 · Movie
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Movie
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Movie
Ghost: Remembering the Magic
2001 · Movie
Kingdom Come
2001 · Movie
Monkeybone
2001 · Movie
Golden Dreams
2001 · Movie
What Makes a Family
2001 · Movie
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000 · Movie
The Weber Show
2000 · Series
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000 · Movie
Strong Medicine
2000 · Series
More Dogs Than Bones
2000 · Movie
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000 · Movie
Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
2000 · Movie
Girl, Interrupted
1999 · Movie
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The Foxbusters
1999 · Series
Jackie's Back!
1999 · Movie
The Mao Game
1999 · Movie
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999 · Movie
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Movie
Our Friend, Martin
1999 · Movie
Alegría
1999 · Movie
Get Bruce!
1999 · Movie
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999 · Movie
The Rugrats Movie
1998 · Movie
A Knight in Camelot
1998 · Movie
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998 · Movie
Junket Whore
1998 · Movie
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Series
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998 · Movie
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998 · Series
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998 · Movie
Titey
1998 · Movie
Celebrity Deathmatch
1998 · Series
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998 · Movie
Creating Ragtime
1998 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
1997 · Movie
Cinderella
1997 · Movie
Bear in the Big Blue House
1997 · Series
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1997 · Movie
In & Out
1997 · Movie
Pitch
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Destination Anywhere
1997 · Movie
In the Gloaming
1997 · Movie
Classic Albums
1997 · Series
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Movie
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997 · Movie
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Series
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Movie
The Associate
1996 · Movie
Pulp Comics
1996 · Series
Bogus
1996 · Movie
Bordello of Blood
1996 · Movie
The Sunshine Boys
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
Eddie
1996 · Movie
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996 · Movie
The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Movie
Muppets Tonight
1996 · Series
TFI Friday
1996 · Series
Theodore Rex
1995 · Movie
The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge
1995 · Movie
Comic Relief VII
1995 · Movie
MADtv
1995 · Series
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · Movie
The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut
1995 · Movie
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995 · Series
Bonnie Raitt Has Something to Talk About
1995 · Movie
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
Boys on the Side
1995 · Movie
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
1994 · Movie
The Pagemaster
1994 · Movie
Star Trek: Generations
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Corrina, Corrina
1994 · Movie
The Little Rascals
1994 · Movie
The Lion King
1994 · Movie
But... Seriously
1994 · Movie
Comic Relief VI
1994 · Movie
Liberation
1994 · Movie
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
1994 · Movie
A Cool Like That Christmas
1993 · Movie
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · Movie
Naked in New York
1993 · Movie
The Nanny
1993 · Series
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993 · Movie
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993 · Movie
Made in America
1993 · Movie
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992 · Movie
Sarafina!
1992 · Movie
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
1992 · Movie
Wisecracks
1992 · Movie
Sister Act
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
The Player
1992 · Movie
Defenders of Dynatron City
1992 · Movie
House Party 2
1991 · Movie
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
1991 · Movie
Chez Whoopi
1991 · Movie
Soapdish
1991 · Movie
The Long Walk Home
1990 · Movie
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990 · Movie
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990 · Series
Ghost
1990 · Movie
Comic Relief '90
1990 · Movie
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990 · Movie
Bagdad Cafe
1990 · Series
Celebrity Guide to Wine
1990 · Movie
Beverly Hills Brats
1989 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly
1989 · Movie
Homer and Eddie
1989 · Movie
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
1989 · Movie
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
Kiss Shot
1989 · Movie
Comic Relief III
1989 · Movie
The Debbie Allen Special
1989 · Movie
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988 · Movie
Free to Be... a Family
1988 · Movie
Clara's Heart
1988 · Movie
This Morning
1988 · Series
Whoopi Goldberg's Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
1988 · Movie
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 · Movie
The Telephone
1988 · Movie
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
1988 · Movie
Fatal Beauty
1987 · Movie
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 · Movie
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · Series
Dolly
1987 · Series
A Different World
1987 · Series
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · Movie
Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later
1987 · Movie
Burglar
1987 · Movie
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin
1987 · Movie
The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite
1987 · Movie
Citizen Steve
1987 · Movie
Repairs
1987 · Movie
The Best of Comic Relief
1986 · Movie
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986 · Movie
The Making of Captain EO
1986 · Movie
American Masters
1986 · Series
Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show
1986 · Movie
Comic Relief
1986 · Series
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986 · Movie
The Color Purple
1985 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
1985 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Movie
Moonlighting
1985 · Series
Muppet Babies
1984 · Series
CBS Schoolbreak Special
1984 · Series
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Series
Wogan
1982 · Series
Citizen
1982 · Movie
De TV Show
1981 · Series
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Sister Act 3
Movie
Anansi Boys
Series
Saturday TV Funhouse
Series
Women Like Us
Movie
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Movie
Sisters in Italy
Movie
More Than a Medal
Movie