Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an Academy Award, Daytime Emmy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA and Grammy Award-winning American comedian and film actress. Although her father was a Protestant preacher, Goldberg says that her family is of mixed religious heritage - including Catholic, Buddhist and Jewish traditions , hailing from a "West Indian" immigrant community. Although she has a religious family heritage, she does not consider herself in any religious order. Her stage name was taken from 'whoopie cushion', which she initially wanted as her name, but chose the last moniker of Goldberg after her mother pointed out that her initial name pick would not look dignified enough to take seriously.

Whoopi is one of only a few individuals (including Barbra Streisand, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn and Helen Hayes) who have won an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy. However, a 2006 Maxim magazine reader poll selected Goldberg as the "3rd Worst Comedian of All Time." Margaret Cho was selected as number two, and Sinbad was number one. ^*

Filmography

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• Citizen (1982)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
• Burglar (1987)
• Fatal Beauty (1987)
• The Telephone (1988)
• Clara's Heart (1988)
• Comicitis (1989) (short subject)
• Beverly Hills Brats (1989) (Cameo)
• Homer & Eddie (1989)
• Ghost (1990)
• The Long Walk Home (1990)
• Wisecracks (1991) (documentary)
• Blackbird Fly (1991) (short subject)
• Sister Act (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Soapdish (1992)
• Sarafina! (1992)
• The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992) (documentary)
• Naked in New York (1993)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (Cameo)
• Made in America (1993)
• Back in the Habit (1993)
• Liberation (1994) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Lion King (1994) (voice)
• The Little Rascals (1994) (cameo)
• Corrina, Corrina (1994)
• Generations (1994)
• The Pagemaster (1994) (voice)
• Boys on the Side (1995)
• The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
• Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
• Theodore Rex (1995)
• Eddie (1996)
• Bordello of Blood (1996) (Cameo)
• Bogus (1996)
• The Associate (1996)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
• Pitch (1997) (documentary)
• Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997) (documentary) (narrator)
• Destination Anywhere (1997)
• In & Out (1997) (Cameo)
• Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) (Cameo)
• Titey (1998) (short subject) (voice)
• Alegría (1998)
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
• Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) (voice)
• The Rugrats Movie (1998) (voice)
• ''The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)....The Grand Banshee
• Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
• The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) (Cameo)
• A Second Chance at Life (2000) (documentary) (narrator)
• More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
• Golden Dreams (2001) (short subject)
• Kingdom Come (2001)
• Monkeybone (2001)
• Rat Race (2001)
• The Hollywood Sign (2001) (Cameo)
• Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
• Showboy (2002) (Cameo)
• Nemesis (2002) (Cameo)
• Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
• Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
• Bitter Jester (2003) (documentary)
• Beyond the Skyline (2003) (short subject)
• Blizzard (2003) (voice)
• Pinocchio 3000 (2004) (voice)
• The N-Word (2004) (documentary)
• Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) (Cameo)
• Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004) (Cameo)
• The Aristocrats (2005) (documentary)
• Racing Stripes (2005) (voice)
• Doogal (2006) (voice)

Upcoming:

• It's Under My Skin (2006)
• The Lasy Guy on Earth (2006)
• Yankee Irving (2006) (voice)

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