
Whoopi Goldberg
Known for Acting · 404 credits
- Born
- 1955-11-13 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Caryn Elaine Johnson · Whoopie Goldberg
Biography
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.
Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janette Grayson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self - Guest

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Good Witch

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
TV Shows (124)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janette Grayson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self - Guest

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Good Witch

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

Blue Bloods
2010
as Regina Thomas

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Chesley Watkins

Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest Host

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited) / The Iceberg (voice)

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Guinan

The View
1997
as Self - Moderator / Self - Co-Host

The Middle
2009
as Jane Marsh

Glee
2009
as Carmen Tibideaux

Hacks
2021
as Whoopi Goldberg

Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge / Self - Special Guest

The Nanny
1993
as Whoopi Goldberg / Edna

30 Rock
2006
as Whoopi Goldberg

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self

The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest

BoJack Horseman
2014
as Mikhaela (voice)

Entourage
2004
as Whoopi Goldberg

Sherri
2022
as Self - Guest

Great Performances
1971
as Self

Hell's Kitchen
2005
as Self - Restaurant Patron

Wogan
1982
as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Strong Medicine
2000
as Dr. Lydia Emerson

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Summer Camp Island
2018
as Barb (voice)

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter

American Masters
1986
as Self

Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest

Amphibia
2019
as Mother Olm (voice)

The Drew Barrymore Show
2020
as Self - Guest

Moonlighting
1985
as Camille Brand

A Different World
1987
as Dr. Jordan

Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Peligre

Star Trek: Picard
2020
as Guinan

Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self

Godfather of Harlem
2019
as Miss Willa

Everybody Hates Chris
2005
as Louise Clarkson

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Gaia (voice)
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest

The Reichen Show
2005
as Self

Bubble Guppies
2011
as Pirate Myra (voice)

The 7D
2014
as Magic Mirror (voice)

The Oscars
1953
as Self / Self - Presenter

People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Winner

RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010
as Self - Guest Judge

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
as Whoopi (voice)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
as Self

Broad City
2014
as Self

Suburgatory
2011
as Yakult (voice)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998
as Self
Movies (280)

The Lion King
1994
as Shenzi (voice)

Toy Story 3
2010
as Stretch (voice)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
as Bernadette Thompson

Ghost
1990
as Oda Mae Brown

Luck
2022
as Captain (voice)

Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Valerie

The Lion King 1½
2004
as Shenzi (voice)

The Little Rascals
1994
as Buckwheat's Mom

The Color Purple
1985
as Celie

Sister Act
1992
as Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence

The Muppets
2011
as Whoopi Goldberg

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016
as Self

Descendants 2
2017
as Ursula (voice) (uncredited)

The Player
1992
as Detective Avery

Racing Stripes
2005
as Franny (voice)

Rat Race
2001
as Vera Baker

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
as Deloris Van Cartier

Star Trek: Nemesis
2002
as Guinan (uncredited)

The Rugrats Movie
1998
as Ranger Margaret (voice)

Bordello of Blood
1996
as Hospital Patient (uncredited)

In & Out
1997
as Whoopi Goldberg

Babes
2024
as Dawn's Breasts

Monkeybone
2001
as Death

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Billy York (uncredited)

The Pagemaster
1994
as Fantasy (voice)

Ezra
2024
as Jayne

The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
as Candy Bliss

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
as Judge Cameo (uncredited)

The Color Purple
2023
as Midwife (uncredited)

Star Trek: Generations
1994
as Guinan (uncredited)

Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Cheshire Cat

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
as Whoopi Goldberg

Soapdish
1991
as Rose Schwartz

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
as Self

Everyone's Hero
2006
as Darlin' (voice)

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
as Stormella (voice)

Jackie Chan: My Story
1998
as Self (uncredited)

Madea Goes to Jail
2009
as Self

Till
2022
as Alma

Snow Buddies
2008
as Miss Mittens (voice)

The Associate
1996
as Laurel Ayres

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020
as (archive footage)

Blackfish
2013
as Self

Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
as Self

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
as Self

Corrina, Corrina
1994
as Corrina Washington

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
as Delilah Abraham

Nobody's Fool
2018
as Lola

The Aristocrats
2005
as Self

Burglar
1987
as Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr

Radioman
2012
as Self

Eddie
1996
as Eddie Franklin

Cinderella
1997
as Queen Constantina

Made in America
1993
as Sarah Mathews

Boys on the Side
1995
as Jane Deluca

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
as Self

For Colored Girls
2010
as Alice / White

Kambakkht Ishq
2009
as Whoopi Goldberg

9/11
2017
as Metzie

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
as Self

A Little Bit of Heaven
2011
as God

My Father's Dragon
2022
as Cat (voice)

Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012
as Self
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
as Self

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Aqua (voice)

If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007
as Mom

I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
2024
as Self (archive footage)

Kingdom Come
2001
as Raynelle Slocumb

Sarafina!
1992
as Mary Masembuko

Top Five
2014
as Whoopi Goldberg

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
as Self (archive footage)

50 Years of Star Trek
2016
as Self

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
as Self - Co-host, "The View"

Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
as Myrlie Evers

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self

Doogal
2006
as Ermintrude (voice)

Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
as Terry Dolittle

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
as Self

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
as Narrator (voice)

Olympia
2018
as Self

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)

The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
as Self

The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World
2021
as Self - Host

Fatal Beauty
1987
as Rita Rizzoli

Theodore Rex
1995
as Katie Coltrane

Bogus
1996
as Harriet Franklin

Misery Loves Comedy
2015
as Self

The Long Walk Home
1990
as Odessa Cotter

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013
as Guinan (archive footage)

A Knight in Camelot
1998
as Dr. Vivien Morgan

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
as Self

Moonlight and Valentino
1995
as Sylvie Morrow

Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Helen (voz)

Naked in New York
1993
as Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall

Our Friend, Martin
1999
as Mrs. Peck (voice)

Pinocchio 3000
2004
as Cyberina (voice)

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002
as Daniel's 'Boss'

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)

A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
as Taxi Driver

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
as Self

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self

The N Word
2006
as Self

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
as Whoopi Goldberg

Find Your Groove
2020
as Self

Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk
2026

Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
as Whoopi Goldberg

A Very Sordid Wedding
2017
as Abernatha Coleman

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
as Self (archive footage)

Call Me Claus
2001
as Lucy Cullins

Declaration of Independence
2003
as Self

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Whoopi Goldberg

Gilbert
2017
as Self

Blizzard
2003
as Blizzard (voice)

Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022
as Self

The Little Engine That Could
2011
as The Tower (voice)

A Day Late and a Dollar Short
2014
as Viola

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
as The Mother / The Ancient Booer
About Whoopi Goldberg
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… With 404 credits spanning from 1953 to 2028, Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in 280 films and 124 TV shows.
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Most Popular Whoopi Goldberg Movies
- The Lion King (1994) — as Shenzi (voice)
- Toy Story 3 (2010) — as Stretch (voice)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) — as Bernadette Thompson
- Ghost (1990) — as Oda Mae Brown
- Luck (2022) — as Captain (voice)
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