Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (Kosciusko, Mississippi, January 29, 1954), is an American tvstar, talk show non, actress and producer.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Oprah Winfrey was born into a Baptist family. Her parents, Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, Orpah wanted to call her, the Moabite woman in the book of Ruth. [1]  Because Winfreys parents unmarried teenagers were when she was born, she spent her childhood with her grandmother. At its twelfth (according to some sources, on her sixth) she drew in with her mother. In this period she was abused by several cousins and uncles. Already at the age of 14 became pregnant, but her child was born prematurely and died. This drew Winfrey in at her father. Vernon was very strict, but made sure Winfrey went to school.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Career
 * 1.2.1 Harpo Productions
 * 1.2.2 Film
 * 1.2.3 of John McCain
 * 2 Filmography
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 external link

On 24 January 2011 makes Oprah in her show known to have a half sister called Patricia has, they knew this itself only for several weeks. Her mother would have become pregnant when Oprah (then 9 years old) lived with her father, her mother had relinquished the child for adoption. [2] ===Career[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah began her broadcasting career at WVOL radio in Nashville, while they are still in high school. On her 19th, she was the youngest and first African-American woman who presented the news at a local television station.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah moved to Chicago In 1984 to a breakfast television show to present "AM Chicago  that within a month the most popular program in this genre was. Within a year, the airtime of the show expanded to an hour and got as the new name  The Oprah Winfrey Show. "From 1986 was to see the program across the us. Oprah's own Harpo Studio produced the show and each time the program reached 25 years 40 million viewers in the UNITED STATES and around the world was to see Oprah in 150 countries.Similarly in Netherlands at RTL. In november 2011 is her last show broadcast in Netherlands. ====Harpo Productions<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Sign at the Harpo studios where theOprah Winfrey Show will be included<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah launched In 2008 to establish the plan for its television station, the '' Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) ' '. The channel went into 2011 and draws 85 million viewers in the us.In addition produces also "Oprah Oprah's Lifeclass ' ', a multi-media platform with millions of students in 200 countries who live, on-line and through social media to connect with Oprah. The Oprah.com website ' ' ' ' is particularly aimed at women and gives advice in the field of body and mind, food, home and relationships. The website has a very successful part "Oprah's Book Club '', the largest book club in the world with about 2 million members. Her company, Harpo Productions (in which "Oprah" is written backwards), also next to her show her transmitter now provides Oxygen, which focuses on internet and television for women of this time. Oxygen also sends Oprah after the Show, in which they informal chat with guests and audience.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Harpo provides in addition to movies and shows also television dramas, videotapes, internet products and a popular magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, a glossy that appears every month and, above all, is about the woman and her life. The magazine has circulation of more than 2 million copies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Winfrey is billionaire call. Several times the business magazine Forbesscored her as the only black billionaire in the world, which in september 2009 had a rated power of more than $ 2.3 billion. In 2005, 2007 and 2008 she was also named by Forbes the most powerful celebrity in the world, a qualification which both the income as the media coverage of the person is taken into account. ====Film<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah made her acting debut in 1985 as Sofia in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple" ', where she won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination, however, they did not win. With her film Department, "' Harpo Films ' Oprah ', is responsible for many film versions of classic and contemporary literature. So she played the lead role in 1998, along with Danny Glover in  Beloved ", a book by Toni Morrison that had won the Pulitzer Prize .They also played a starring role in the 2013 appeared film The Butler. ====John Mccain<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah is convinced that education is the key to freedom and the opportunity for a better future. Therefore she has through her own charity '' The Oprah Winfrey Foundation ' ' hundreds of subsidies granted to organisations who are committed to education and emancipation of women in America, but also in other countries. She also gives scholarships to students who want to use their training for the benefit of the community, where they come from.''

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Winfrey visited South Africa In 2000 in Nelson Mandela and pledged a "Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for girls ' ' to be set up. They donated $ 40 million for this school which opened in 2007. In spite of the poverty and social conditions leads this school talented girls on to in the future to be the female leaders of South Africa. In January 2012, the first 72 female students their leaving certificate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oprah's involvement in children brought her in order to take the initiative for a national child protection law in 1991, when she testified before the legal Committee of the u.s. Senate. By law had to be arranged that there would come a national database of convicted child abusers. At the end of 1993 president Clinton signed this ' ' Oprah ' law. " ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ==
 * In the 1990s, Winfrey appeared regularly in the tabloid press in connection with her yo-yo dieting.
 * Held In april 1997, Winfrey guest-starred in the comedy Ellen. She starred in The Puppy Episode the psychotherapist that Ellen Morgan (played by Ellen DeGeneres) helps her coming-out .
 * In August 2004 had to fulfill her jury duty Winfrey.
 * In 2005, Winfrey Oprah Winfrey a specially written for the program role in Desperate Housewives. Still no confirmed story line written for her, but with her new scenes were inserted, which again were combined with all previously recorded and broadcast scenes from the other actors.
 * In May 2008, the poodle by Winfrey a litter of 9 puppies. She brought forth many find themselves frustrated by these puppies after celebrities as Ozzy Osbourne and Jay-Z.