Oprah Winfrey

Also known as Oprah Gail Winfrey, Oprah, Orpah Gail Winfrey

American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)

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Oprah Winfrey is an American television presenter, patron of the arts, and producer. Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 1954, she has worked for employers including WJZ-TV, WLS-TV, and Harpo Productions, which she owns. Her notable works include The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Color Purple, Beloved, and Charlotte's Web. She has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Peabody Awards, and recognition in the Time 100 and American Academy Arts Sciences collections.

Winfrey was educated at Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Picture. Her residence includes Milwaukee, Nashville, Chicago, and Montecito. She is recognized in the Peabody Award collection and has authored works such as What I know for sure and What Happened to You?.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 29 January 1954
Works: 60

Top works

What I know for sure
The best of Oprah's what I know for sure
Food, Health, and Happiness
What Happened to You?
$304 Billion Usd 15 Years Illuminati

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Film & TV

Acting · Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954), also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the…

Known for

Jane Elliott Against the World — Self (Archive Footage)2026
Remember Mulugeta: Confronting Hate in Portland — Self (archive footage)2026
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World — Self2026
Michael Jackson: A Life in Music — Self (archive footage)2026
Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom — Self - Interviewer (archive footage)2026
The Larper — John Martin2026
This Is the Tom Green Documentary — Self (archive footage)2025
An Oprah Winfrey Special: The Menopause Revolution — Self - Host2025
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything — Self2025
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary — Self2025

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: West Virginia
Active from: 1992-09-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,633
Total plays: 3,729

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

High-frequency modification of plant genes using engineered zinc-finger nucleases
· 2009 · cited 634x
Rapid “Open-Source” Engineering of Customized Zinc-Finger Nucleases for Highly Efficient Gene Modification
· 2008 · cited 629x
Nonlinear Interaction of a Small Cold Beam and a Plasma
· 1971 · cited 400x
Effect of sulfate on carbon and electron flow during microbial methanogenesis in freshwater sediments
· 1977 · cited 383x
Efficacy of self-monitored blood pressure, with or without telemonitoring, for titration of antihypertensive medication (TASMINH4): an unmasked randomised controlled trial
· 2018 · cited 364x

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Quotes

“I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!”
“My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!”
“I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.”
“I'm still off hamburgers.”
“I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.”
“I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?”

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Encyclopedic overview

Oprah Gail Winfrey (/ˈoʊprə/; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Globally, she is the richest Black woman and the wealthiest female celebrity. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only Black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company.

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