Whoopi Goldberg
Born November 13, 1955 (Age: 70)
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New York City, New York, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Captain Zero: The Movie
2028
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as (voice)
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Age: 72
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
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as Self
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Age: 68
Ezra
2024
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as Jayne
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Age: 68
Babes
2024
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as Dawn's Breasts
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Age: 68
The Color Purple
2023
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as Midwife (uncredited)
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Age: 68
Till
2022
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as Alma
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Age: 66
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
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as Self
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Age: 65
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 64
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
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as Self - Co-host, "The View"
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Age: 64
Nobody's Fool
2018
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as Lola
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Age: 62
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 62
9/11
2017
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as Metzie
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Age: 61
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
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as Self
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Age: 60
Top Five
2014
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 59
Big Stone Gap
2014
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as Fleeta Mullins
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Age: 58
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
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as Bernadette Thompson
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Age: 58
Blackfish
2013
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as Self
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Age: 57
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
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as Self
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Age: 57
Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012
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as Self
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Age: 56
Python Legs!
2012
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as
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Age: 56
The Muppets
2011
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 56
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2011
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 55
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011
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as God
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Age: 55
For Colored Girls
2010
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as Alice / White
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Age: 54
Toy Story 3
2010
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as Stretch (voice)
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Age: 54
No Image
The Black List: Volume Three
2010
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as Self
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Age: 54
Journey to the Stars
2009
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 53
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
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as Self
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Age: 53
No Image
Stream
2009
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as Jodi Quinn
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Age: 53
Snow Buddies
2008
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as Miss Mittens (voice)
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Age: 52
No Image
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
2007
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as Self
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Age: 51
No Image
The Sophisticated Misfit
2007
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as Self
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Age: 51
Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic
2007
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as Self
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Age: 51
Everyone's Hero
2006
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as Darlin' (voice)
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Age: 50
Doogal
2006
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as Ermintrude (voice)
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Age: 50
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 49
Racing Stripes
2005
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as Franny (voice)
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Age: 49
The Lion King 1½
2004
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as Shenzi (voice)
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Age: 48
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
2004
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 48
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004
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as Self
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Age: 48
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 48
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 47
Star Trek: Nemesis
2002
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as Guinan (uncredited)
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Age: 47
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002
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as Daniel's 'Boss'
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Age: 47
Madeline: My Fair Madeline
2002
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as Miss Clavel (voice)
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Age: 46
The Hollywood Sign
2002
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as Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
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Age: 46
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
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as Self
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Age: 46
No Image
Showboy
2002
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as Herself
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Age: 46
Making Rat Race
2002
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as Herself
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Age: 46
Rat Race
2001
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as Vera Baker
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Age: 45
Rescued from the Closet
2001
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as Self
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Age: 45
Ghost: Remembering the Magic
2001
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as Self
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Age: 45
Monkeybone
2001
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as Death
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Age: 45
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
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as Self
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Age: 44
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
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as Self - Host / Narrator
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Age: 44
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
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as Cléo
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Age: 44
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
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as Judge Cameo (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
2000
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as Self - Host
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Age: 44
Girl, Interrupted
1999
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as Valerie
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Age: 44
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
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as Candy Bliss
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Age: 43
The Rugrats Movie
1998
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as Ranger Margaret (voice)
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Age: 43
A Knight in Camelot
1998
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as Dr. Vivien Morgan
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Age: 42
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
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as Stormella (voice)
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Age: 42
Junket Whore
1998
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as Self
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Age: 42
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
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as Delilah Abraham
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Age: 42
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 42
Titey
1998
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as The Iceberg (voice)
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Age: 42
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 42
Creating Ragtime
1998
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as Host
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Age: 42
A Christmas Carol
1997
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as Spirit of Christmas Present (voice)
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Age: 42
Cinderella
1997
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as Queen Constantina
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Age: 41
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1997
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as Mother Gooseberg (voice)
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Age: 41
In & Out
1997
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as Whoopi Goldberg
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Age: 41
Pitch
1997
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as Self
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Age: 41
Destination Anywhere
1997
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as Cabbie
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Age: 41
In the Gloaming
1997
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as Nurse Myrna
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Age: 41
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 41
No Image
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
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as Self
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Age: 41
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
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as Myrlie Evers
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Age: 41
The Associate
1996
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as Laurel Ayres
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Age: 40
Bogus
1996
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as Harriet Franklin
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Age: 40
Bordello of Blood
1996
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as Hospital Patient (uncredited)
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Age: 40
The Sunshine Boys
1996
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as Nurse (uncredited)
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Age: 40
Eddie
1996
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as Eddie Franklin
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Age: 40
The Celluloid Closet
1996
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as Self
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Age: 40
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
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as Sylvie Morrow
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Age: 39
No Image
Bonnie Raitt Has Something To Talk About
1995
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as Self
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Age: 39
Boys on the Side
1995
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as Jane Deluca
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Age: 39
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
1994
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 39
The Pagemaster
1994
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as Fantasy (voice)
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Age: 39
Star Trek: Generations
1994
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as Guinan (uncredited)
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Age: 39
Corrina, Corrina
1994
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as Corrina Washington
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Age: 38
The Little Rascals
1994
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as Buckwheat's Mom
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Age: 38
The Lion King
1994
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as Shenzi (voice)
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Age: 38
A Cool Like That Christmas
1993
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as Mom / Irwin (voice)
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Age: 38
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
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as Deloris Van Cartier
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Age: 38
Naked in New York
1993
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as Tragedy Mask on Theater Wall
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Age: 37
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
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as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
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Age: 37
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
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as Self
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Age: 37
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
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as Billy York (uncredited)
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Age: 37
Made in America
1993
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as Sarah Mathews
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Age: 37
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
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as Self
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Age: 36
Sarafina!
1992
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as Mary Masembuko
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Age: 36
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
1992
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as Self
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Age: 36
Wisecracks
1992
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as
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Age: 36
Sister Act
1992
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as Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence
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Age: 36
The Player
1992
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as Detective Avery
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Age: 36
Defenders of Dynatron City
1992
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as Ms. Megawatt (voice)
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Age: 36
House Party 2
1991
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as Professor (uncredited)
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Age: 35
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991
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as Self
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Age: 35
Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 35
Chez Whoopi
1991
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as Self - Host
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Age: 35
Soapdish
1991
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as Rose Schwartz
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Age: 35
The Long Walk Home
1990
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as Odessa Cotter
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Age: 35
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 35
Ghost
1990
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as Oda Mae Brown
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Age: 34
No Image
Comic Relief '90
1990
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as Self
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Age: 34
Celebrity Guide to Wine
1990
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as Self
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Age: 34
Help Save Planet Earth
1990
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as Self
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Age: 34
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
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as Self
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Age: 33
No Image
Whoopi Goldberg Presents: Billy Connolly
1989
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as Herself
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Age: 33
Homer and Eddie
1989
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as Eddie Cervi
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Age: 33
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
1989
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as Self
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Age: 33
Kiss Shot
1989
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as Sarah Collins
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Age: 33
Comic Relief III
1989
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as
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Age: 33
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
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as Self
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Age: 33
Free to Be... a Family
1988
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as Self
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Age: 33
Clara's Heart
1988
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as Clara Mayfield
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Age: 32
The Telephone
1988
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as Vashti Blue
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Age: 32
Fatal Beauty
1987
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as Rita Rizzoli
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Age: 31
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
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as Lu Lu - Constitutional Caterer
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Age: 31
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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as Self
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Age: 31
No Image
Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later
1987
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as Self - Host
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Age: 31
Burglar
1987
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as Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr
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Age: 31
No Image
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin
1987
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as Self
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Age: 31
No Image
The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite
1987
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as Self
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Age: 31
Citizen Steve
1987
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as Self - Actress
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Age: 31
No Image
Repairs
1987
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as The Voice (voice)
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Age: 31
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
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as Terry Dolittle
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Age: 30
The Color Purple
1985
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as Celie
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Age: 30
Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
1985
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as Self
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Age: 29
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
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as Self
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Age: 29