Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈhwʊpi/; born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host. Some sources give her birth year as 1955, but according to the African-American Registry[2] and a New York Times article from 1984,[3] she was born in 1949. Although Goldberg made her film debut in the avant-garde ensemble film Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away (1982), her breakthrough role was playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985).