Whoopi Goldberg
2005 Emmy Nominated: Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Whoopi Back to Broadway
"Actors have no color. That's the art form." -Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13 in New York City with the name Caryn Elaine Johnson. While performing small Broadway parts she worked in a funeral home applying makeup to corpses and as a bricklayer. She moved to LA and worked in improve, until her career caught fire. She won an Oscar for her role as a psychic medium in "Ghost." Whoopi also had a smash hit with "Sister Act" and played the role of the learned and traveled Guinan, on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." She was nicknamed Whoopi, as in "whoopee cushion" and took the name Goldberg from her Jewish heritage.
Goldberg is nominated for 2005's Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program for her performance in "Whoopi Back to Broadway" on HBO.
Whoopi Goldberg Videography
Homie Spumoni, 2006
Racing Stripes, 2005 (voice)
Pinocchio 3000, 2004 (voice)
The Lion King 1½, 2004 (voice)
Rat Race, 2001
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, 2000
Girl, Interrupted, 1999
Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996
Ghost, 1990
2003
EMMY NOMINATIONS | 2004
EMMY NOMINATIONS | 2005
EMMY NOMINATIONS | 2006
EMMY NOMINATIONS
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