My shrine to Whoopi Goldberg

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The cartoony pictures I made of her!

Real name:

Caryn Johnson

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1949

Place of Birth:

Manhattan, New York

Parents' Names:

Robert and Emma Johnson

Personality:

Whoopi Goldberg is one of the most bankable, talented, and unique stars in Hollywood. She is very strong willed and committed to her work. Whoopi is very fresh and direct.

Personal Life:

Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13, 1949, in New York City, as Caryn E. Johnson. Whoopi had one older brother, Clyde. When Whoopi's father, Robert deserted his family, Whoopi's mother, Emma, was left to raise her two children. When Whoopi was eight she started performing with the Helena Rubenstein Children's Theatre. Whoopi attended elementary school at St. Columbia's, a Catholic school in Manhattan. About two weeks into ninth grade she dropped out of school. This was about the time she started using drugs. She spent her time wandering around Central Park, listening to people playing drums and doing drugs. Eventually, she started realizing that she had to stop. Whoopi ended up at the Horizon House, a drug treatment center in New York.

Whoopi and her drug counselor, Martin, were married in 1971. They had one child, Alexandrea, in 1974. Shortly after her child was born, Whoopi moved to California to pursue her acting dream. Her first job there was with an improvisational group of comedians. She did everything from bricklaying to doing the hair and makeup of corpses in a funeral parlor!

At first,Whoopi changed her name to Whoopi Cushion. Her mother wanted a more respectable name, so she changed her name, again, to Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi then moved north to San Francisco, where she joined the Black Street Hawkeyes Theatre in Berkeley. After she moved into solo performances, she made "The Spook Show". She took the show on a national and European tour. When writer and producer Mike Nichols, saw her work, he signed her to an evening on Broadway. As a result, "Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway" opened in 1983. The program was used as a special on HBO, and the stage production won the Grammy for best comedy recording of the year, in 1985.

Whoopi was in her first motion picture, "The Color Purple", in 1985. She played the main character, Celie. She Earned an Oscar nomination, the 1985 Golden Globe, and Image awards for best actress in a motion picture. The next year she won an Emmy for a guest appearance on "Moon Lighting". In 1986, she played in "Comic Relief", with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. It is now an annual fund-raiser for the homeless. She then saw that her acting career was in serious danger. She found that the only thing Hollywood loves better than a rising star, is a falling star.

She appeared live on stage, did Gap commercials, co-hosted the AIDS television show, "That's What Friends Are For", and took her one woman production on the road. From 1988 to 1993 she made several guest appearances on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", as Guinan, the part she auditioned for when the show was first being cast. She remembered the original "Star Trek", with characters such as Nichelle Nichols, as Uhura. In 1990 Whoopi appeared in "Ghost". As a funky phsycic, Oda Mae Brown, she won plenty of awards, including the Academy award for best supporting actress. In Hollywood, she was a rising star again.

In 1992, she played the teacher of a young girl fighting apartheid, in "Serafina". The same year, she played a detective in "The Player". Later that year, she played a Las Vegas singer and a nun, Sister Mary Clarence, in "Sister Act". In 1993, Whoopi co-starred with Ted Dansen in "Made in America". Later that year, she made a big fat six and a half million dollars for the not-so-successful sequel to "Sister Act", "Sister Act 2, Back in the Habit". Since then she has been in a steady line of films, including "Jumping Jack Flash", "Fatal Beauty", "Clara's Heart", "The Long Walk Home", "Soap Dish", and "Corrina, Corrina".

In 1996 and 1997 Whoopi appeared in movies such as "Boy's on the Side", "Eddie", and "Bogus".

Contributions:

Whoopi Goldberg is a very good choice for a page of significant women. Although she had a rough childhood, she has turned her life completely around. She is now one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, as well as an anti-drug advocate.

Awards and other Recognition:

Whoopi Goldberg has won more awards than I could even think of. She has won two Grammys, three Golden Globes, an Academy Nomination, nine NAACP Image Awards, two Oscars, a British Academy Nomination, an American Comedy Award, a Saturn Award, four Emmys, three people's Choice Awards, five Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards, Entertainer of the Year, and the Women of the Year. She hosted the 1992 34th Annual Grammy Awards and ABC's A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre in 1993 and 1994. She hosted the 66th Annual Academy Awards, for which she became the first woman, as well as African-American, to host the Academy Awards by herself.

Interesting Trivia:

First Woman and African-American to ever host the Academy Awards!

Married her drug counselor, Martin!

Make-up artist for a funeral home!

Has won over 35 awards in her career!

Has been in over 15 feature films and 10 cable and TV shows!

Relations:

Married 3 times,daughter from first marrage Alexandrea Martin

Grand children:3~ 2 Girls,Amarah Jerzey and one boy Clyde

she got the name Whoopi cause her friends said she sounded like a Whoopi Cushion cause she farted wherever and whenever she needed to.

"Theres more room for it out then there is in"

Best known for:

hair,stating her opinion,unconventional looks.

Some useless info:

she don't eat eggs cause she she has eggs inside her and she feels wrong eating eggs and they don't look or smell right. When she was little her mother tried to make her eat some for 3 days they sat there for dinner breakfast and lunch and she refused for 3 days to eat till her mother finally realized she wasn't eating them.

Her Mothers name is Emma.

Her Drivers License says Caryn Johnson

she hates that name cause she think its sounds like a tupper ware sales person.

And most importantly she's left handed.....JUST LIKE ME >:)

Quotes:

Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place ~Whoopi Goldberg~

I realized that alot of people think the grass is greener on the other side....i just used my imagination to make the grass whatever color i wanted it to be.~Whoopi Goldberg~

She is my true Goddess.