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Whoopi Goldberg: Biography

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Birth Name: Caryn Elaine Johnson
Birth Place: New York, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/13/1955, Scorpio
Profession: Actor; comedian; producer; writer

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Whoopi Goldberg Tapped to Host Tony Awards | Today's News: Our Take | 5/8/2008
Whoopi Goldberg has been named the host of The 62nd Annual Tony Awards, scheduled for Sunday, June 15 (8 pm/ET, CBS).This will be Goldberg's first stint at hosting the Tonys. She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.The View moderator won a Tony Award herself in 2002 for her role in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has also won a Grammy, an Oscar, an Emmy and a Golden Globe throughout her career. — J.R. Whalen read more
Patrick Swayze: Friends, Colleagues Send Support | Today's News: Our Take | 3/7/2008
In the wake of the shocking news that Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer, many friends and colleagues rushed to make statements of support for the star of Dirty Dancing.• Swayze's physician, Dr. George Fisher, expressed optimism, saying that the actor "has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far."• Whoopi Goldberg gave Swayze credit for her Oscar win. It seems that Swayze lobbied hard for Goldberg to play Oda Mae Brown in Ghost, even going as far as to threaten to back out of the film unless she was cast. "When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said Thursday on The View.• A&E chimed in to announce that while The Beast, a pilot that stars Swayze as an unorthodox FBI veteran, is still in contention for pickup, "at this time all of our thoughts are solely with Patrick and his family. We are all wishing for a speedy recovery to a truly gifted actor."• Swayze's... read more
All's Well Between Oscar and Snubbed Whoopi | Oscars Live Recap and News Blog | 2/27/2008
Four-time Oscar host Whoopi Goldberg teared up on Monday's The View after the ladies brought up her exclusion from what looked like a tribute montage to past hosts on Sunday's telecast. In turn, Gil Cates, who produced the show, called Whoopi to apologize. "That piece of film was made to honor 80 years of Oscar's most memorable moments," he told TV Guide. Because of the show's crash production schedule after the end of the WGA strike, Cates saw the montage only days before it aired. "I never realized that Whoopi wasn't in it — and she hosted two times for me! And Steve Martin's not in it, I now realize. I feel badly for him, too. It was just totally an oversight." Not that he's calling Martin with his mea culpa. "No, Steve's not that kind of guy." Cates is embarrassed "that anyone would think there was any reason that Whoopi wasn't included, except by accident. We did use a very major piece of her in the piece on [winning] supporting actors. She thanked me for calling, and... read more
Housewives Star Helps Whoopi Kick Butts | Today's News: Our Take | 11/14/2007
Thursday on The View, Whoopi Goldberg will get assistance in her mission to give up cigarettes in the form of Mrs. McCluskey, aka Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten. "I'm a lung-cancer survivor — six years cancer-free! — so I'm going to talk to her about quitting smoking," Joosten tells us of her visit, which coincides with the Great American Smokeout and National Cancer Month. "Whoopi's got a target date, and we've got tips on how to make it easier to quit."Joosten's busy week continues Friday when she reports to NBC's Las Vegas to play "a bingo-obsessed old lady," as she puts it. "What's not to love?" she says of the guest gig. "B-9! G-44!" — With reporting by Michael Maloney read more
"New" View Ratings Are Rosier than Rosie's | Today's News: Our Take | 9/24/2007
ABC's latest incarnation of The View, featuring Whoopi Goldberg as moderator and Sherri Shepherd as a gabber, thus far is averaging 3.5 million total viewers, a seven percent increase from the 3.3 mil who were tuning in to the Rosie-run edition a year ago.Though the talker got off to a slow start this season — Whoopi drew a million fewer than O'D did on her first day — with Shepherd in place in its second week, it bested Ro by 400,000 heads. read more

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Whoopi Goldberg: Photos

Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, President Bill Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Clapton courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg courtesy Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage.com

The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Barbara Walters courtesy Steve Fenn/ABC

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Whoopi Goldberg: Credits

Title	Year	Type
50 Funniest Women Alive (Remarks by)	2007	TV Show Series
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (Appearing)	2006	TV Show Series
African American Lives (Subject (person only))	2006	TV Show Series
Comic Relief 2006 (Host)	2006	TV Show Series
Doogal (Actor - Ermintrude)	2006	Movie

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You are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoopi, you are the best thing that has ever happened to the view. I've tried several times to get into the show but the parts/host's I could not handle always made me turn the channel.... read more
Posted by mzshell Apr 30, 2008 2:31 AM

Way to control the show Whoopi
Glad they finally found someone who is able to control the show , especially Elisabeth. Love what you have brought to the show Whoopi. Sherri has been an interesting addition although... read more
Posted by beaathome Mar 10, 2008 3:45 PM

the view
the view that you are missing is the one that acknoledges the absolute truth then you can all go off and give your views. example gay or lesbion topics.....unless sex is between a man and... read more
Posted by tgrandma Sep 5, 2007 8:19 PM

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