Oprah Winfrey Biography
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. She is currently involved in many business ventures, but is most identified with her massively popular and eponymous talk show. She is currently ranked as the most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, as well as the ninth most powerful woman in the world. Oprah Winfrey is believed to be worth over $1.3 billion according to the 2005 Forbes Magazine Issue. She currently lives on "The Promised Land", her 42 acre ocean view estate in Montecito, California, outside of Santa Barbara.
Winfrey was born to an extremely poor Baptist family. Winfrey began her career in media at age 17. She was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WTVF-TV. In 1983, Winfrey took over as host of WLS-TV's low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The show was so successful with Winfrey as host that it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show, expanded to an hour. Originally, the show followed traditional talk show formats. By the mid 1990s, however, the format became more serious, addressing issues that Winfrey thought were of direct importance and of crucial consequence to women. Winfrey began to do a lot of charity work, and her show featured people suffering from poverty or the victims of unfortunate accidents. In 1985, Winfrey co-starred in Steven Spielberg's epic adaptation of Alice Walker's award-winning novel The Color Purple. She earned immediate acclaim as Sofia, the distraught housewife. The following year Winfrey was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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| | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez has topped the annual Forbes list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in the world, taking over from fellow pop singer Lady Gaga and beating out media mogul Oprah Winfrey. The 42-year-old singer, ... |
| Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who has been the top-earning celebrity on the FORBES Celebrity 100 list for the last four years, this year saw her earnings fall by a steep $125 million, or a full 43%. |
| Oprah Winfrey was in Nashville earlier this week to film Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher's first on-camera interview together as a married couple. |
| The relationship between former friends Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, possibly the two most powerful female influences on Barack Obama's presidency, has reached a breaking point, a new book has claimed. |
| (Photo: OWN's Oprah Winfrey.) WANTED: Proofreader for my new book, “Battle for Daytime: The Montel Williams Story.” (Photo: New York Times writer and The War for Late Night author Bill Carter) FOR SALE: Broken remote control. |
| The 42-year-old singer was followed by Oprah Winfrey in second place and Justin Bieber in third place. Lopez landed on top of the 'World's Most Powerful Celebrities' list due to earning $52 million over the last 12 months and "massive amount of fame" ... |
Oprah Winfrey, right, interviews Oklahoma country music star Carrie Underwood and her husband Mike Fisher (not pictured) Sunday on "Oprah's Next Chapter" on OWN, cable 106 in Tulsa. |
| But because of his high-profile partnership with Oprah Winfrey, the Brooklyn-born former lawyer -- who splits his time among New York, Maryland and overseas travel -- has spent most of the past year defending his $300 million-plus investment in the ... |
| The bond which the former friends Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, who are also deemed influential female influences on Barack Obama's presidency, shared will soon be ruined, a new book has claimed. |
Oprah Winfrey! Opening up about the media mogul, he gushed about his dream of teaching her to salsa and jive. “I would do my best to teach her some dance moves. |
| By CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART Launching the OWN channel has proved to be harder than expected for Oprah Winfrey and her partners at Discovery Communications. |
| NEW DELHI: Big screen Bollywood star Amir Khan is making waves on the Indian television now, raising social issues through a new television show 'Satyamev Jayate' (Truth Always Prevails). |
by PATRICIA SHIPP & LYNN ALLISON, NATIONAL ENQUIRER GAYLE KING may be ready to betray her closest friend OPRAH WINFREY by penning an explosive tell-all that would answer ALL those rumors about their secret life together! |
Competing against the likes of Johnny Depp and Oprah Winfrey, many ultimately don't. Here are 10 of the celebrities who didn't make it this year but who we think you should be keeping an eye on. |
It comes as Oprah Winfrey's positivity-focused OWN nears two years of dismal ratings. So, do we hate happy TV? Is Aspire doomed? |
| By Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Discovery Communications reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, hurt by losses at the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), sending its shares down 5.5 percent in morning trading. OWN, the joint venture with the ... |
| The 49-year-old actor gushes about his wife, seven years after they first starting dating, which led to Cruise famously couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," a move that brought on many skeptics. Pictures: Tom Cruise "She is an extraordinary ... |
| FILE - In this April 14, 2011 publicity image originally released by OWN, Oprah Winfrey Network portion of the Discovery Communications Upfront at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. |
| A new book tells stories in the voices of famous Chicagoans, from Barack Obama to Rod Blagojevich to Oprah Winfrey. We talk with the author of Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm. |
| Though many other entertainers raked in more money than her - runner-up Oprah Winfrey boasts earnings of $165 million, triple of Lopez's $52 million - Forbes compiled their rankings by looking at other factors, such as social media; TV, film and ... |
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