
Whoopi Goldberg
Highest Rated: 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)
Lowest Rated: 0% Theodore Rex (1996)
Birthday: Nov 13, 1955
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Comedienne, actress, author, talk show host and political activist Whoopi Goldberg was one of the more unique personalities to arrive on the entertainment scene of the 1980s and went on to become a lasting, formidable presence over the decades that followed. Mining her often unflattering early background for material, Goldberg first came to notoriety with her eponymous 1984 Broadway character sketch show, directed by the renowned Mike Nichols. Her auspicious feature film debut as the abused Celie in Steven Spielberg's acclaimed drama "The Color Purple" (1985) garnered her accolades and overnight stardom, which were then combined with box office gold and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her hilarious role in the blockbuster romance "Ghost" (1990). Other projects like "Sister Act" (1992) added to her commercial success, while her work with fellow comedians Billy Crystal and Robin Williams on the annual "Comic Relief" benefit concerts allowed her to do the two things she loved most - make people laugh and help those in need. A frequent personality on television, Goldberg acted as host of the Academy Awards no fewer than four times before becoming one of the more outspoken and controversial co-hosts of the daytime talk show "The View" (ABC, 1997- ) in 2007. One of the few people to have won an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy - not to mention the prestigious Mark Twain Award for Humor - Goldberg both entertained and inspired people across the globe, regardless of their sex, race, creed or color.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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100% | No Score Yet | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show | Self | - | 2020 |
100% | 100% | Waldo on Weed | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
100% | No Score Yet | Master of Dark Shadows | Herself (Voice) | - | 2019 |
94% | 89% | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
26% | 35% | Nobody's Fool | Lola (Character) | $31.7M | 2018 |
20% | 33% | Furlough | Mrs. Stevens (Character) | - | 2018 |
86% | No Score Yet | Olympia | Self | - | 2018 |
95% | 86% | Gilbert | Self | $8.4K | 2017 |
86% | 95% | A Very Sordid Wedding | Abernatha Coleman (Character) | - | 2017 |
11% | 43% | 9/11 | Metzie (Character) | $172K | 2017 |
100% | No Score Yet | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | Self | - | 2017 |
90% | 32% | The Problem With Apu | Self | - | 2017 |
86% | 78% | The Gospel According to André | Self | $388.2K | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Find Your Groove | Self | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Yamasong: March of the Hollows | Yari (Voice) | - | 2017 |
94% | 74% | Floyd Norman: An Animated Life | Self | - | 2016 |
40% | 75% | King of the Dancehall | Loretta Brixton (Character) | - | 2016 |
96% | 89% | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years | Self | $2.9M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hero Quest | Mama Zho Zi (Voice) | - | 2015 |
20% | 33% | Savva | Mama Zho Zi (Voice) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 64% | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Viola (Character) | - | 2014 |
21% | 50% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Bernadette Thompson (Character) | $191.2M | 2014 |
36% | 53% | Big Stone Gap | Fleeta Mullins (Character) | $1M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Contradictions of Fair Hope | Narrator | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 68% | The Little Engine That Could | Tower (Voice) | - | 2011 |
95% | 87% | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Narrator | $304.1K | 2011 |
4% | 52% | A Little Bit of Heaven | God (Character) | $10K | 2011 |
95% | 80% | The Muppets | Self | $88.6M | 2011 |
32% | 73% | For Colored Girls |
Alice/ |
$37.7M | 2010 |
98% | 90% | Toy Story 3 | Stretch (Voice) | $415M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Letters to Santa: A Muppets Christmas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mia and the Migoo | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Descendants | Red Flower (Voice) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Snow Buddies | Miss Mittens (Voice) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins | Narrator | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Homie Spumoni | Thelma (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 10% | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Mom (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nuremberg: A Vision Restored | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
42% | 44% | Everyone's Hero | Darlin (Voice) | $14.5M | 2006 |
8% | 22% | Doogal | Ermintrude (Voice) | $7.6M | 2006 |
35% | 42% | Racing Stripes | Franny (Voice) | $49.2M | 2005 |
57% | 29% | Pauly Shore Is Dead | Self | - | 2004 |
78% | 62% | The Lion King 1 1/2 | Shenzi (Voice) | - | 2004 |
22% | 32% | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Self | $25.7K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 25% | P3K: Pinocchio 3000 | Cyberina (Voice) | - | 2004 |
67% | 53% | Blizzard | Blizzard (Voice) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Good Fences |
Mabel Spader (Character), Producer |
- | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
82% | 51% | It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie | Daniel's `'Boss'` (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What Makes a Family |
Terry Harrison (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2001 |
19% | 27% | Monkeybone | Death (Character) | $5.4M | 2001 |
28% | 72% | Kingdom Come | Raynelle Slocumb (Character) | $23.2M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Call Me Claus |
Lucy Cullins (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2001 |
44% | 64% | Rat Race | Vera Baker (Character) | $56.6M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Executive Producer | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 57% | More Dogs Than Bones | Cleo (Character) | - | 2000 |
43% | 20% | The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | Judge Cameo (Voice) | $26M | 2000 |
43% | 58% | The Deep End of the Ocean | Candy Bliss (Character) | $13.4M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Our Friend, Martin | Mrs. Peck (Voice) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Jackie's Back! | Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Character) | - | 1999 |
53% | 84% | Girl, Interrupted | Valerie (Character) | - | 1999 |
71% | 44% | Get Bruce! | Self | $43.2K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
33% | 62% | Alice in Wonderland | Cheshire Cat (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 45% | A Knight in Camelot | Dr. Vivien Morgan (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Pickford: A Life on Film | Narrator | - | 1998 |
59% | 50% | The Rugrats Movie | Ranger Margaret (Voice) | $100.5M | 1998 |
50% | 66% | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Delilah Abraham (Character) | $37.7M | 1998 |
40% | 58% | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen (Voice) | $106.3K | 1998 |
86% | 74% | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella | Queen Constantina (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christmas Carol | Spirit of Christmas Present (Voice) | - | 1997 |
8% | 15% | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn | Self | $43.9K | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 73% | In the Gloaming | Nurse Myrna (Character) | - | 1997 |
18% | 36% | Eddie | Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Character) | $31.4M | 1996 |
0% | 19% | Theodore Rex | Katie Coltrane (Character) | $53.3M | 1996 |
43% | 62% | Ghosts of Mississippi | Myrlie Evers (Character) | $13.1M | 1996 |
97% | 89% | The Celluloid Closet | Unknown (Character) | $1.4M | 1996 |
28% | 53% | The Associate | Laurel Ayres (Character) | $12.8M | 1996 |
44% | 45% | Bogus | Harriet Franklin (Character) | $4.3M | 1996 |
74% | 69% | Boys on the Side | Jane (Character) | $22.2M | 1995 |
15% | 51% | Moonlight and Valentino | Sylvie Morrow (Character) | $2.1M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Liberation | Narrator | - | 1994 |
21% | 48% | The Pagemaster | Fantasy (Voice) | $12M | 1994 |
23% | 70% | The Little Rascals | Buckwheat's Mom (Character) | $51.7M | 1994 |
39% | 69% | Corrina, Corrina | Corrina Washington (Character) | $20.2M | 1994 |
47% | 57% | Star Trek Generations | Guinan (Character) | $74.6M | 1994 |
93% | 93% | The Lion King | Shenzi the Hyena (Voice) | $422.8M | 1994 |
21% | 49% | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Sgt. Billy York (Character) | $28M | 1993 |
31% | 30% | Made in America | Sarah Mathews (Character) | $41.8M | 1993 |
19% | 61% | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit |
Deloris Van Cartier/ |
$57M | 1993 |
60% | 87% | Sarafina! | Mary Masembuko (Character) | $7.3M | 1992 |
74% | 65% | Sister Act |
Deloris Van Cartier/ |
$139.6M | 1992 |
98% | 84% | The Player | Detective Susan Avery (Character) | $21.7M | 1992 |
70% | 63% | Soapdish | Rose Schwartz (Character) | $33.9M | 1991 |
88% | 84% | The Long Walk Home | Odessa Cotter (Character) | $1.8M | 1990 |
74% | 80% | Ghost | Oda Mae Brown (Character) | $214.3M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss Shot | Sarah Collins (Character) | - | 1989 |
0% | 35% | Homer & Eddie | Eddie Cervi (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 46% | The Telephone | Vashti Blue (Character) | $54.8K | 1988 |
50% | 60% | Clara's Heart | Clara Mayfield (Character) | $4.5M | 1988 |
27% | 39% | Burglar | Bernice 'Bernie' Rhodenbarr (Character) | $15.2M | 1987 |
23% | 42% | Fatal Beauty | Rita Rizzoli (Character) | $10.8M | 1987 |
29% | 58% | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Terry Dolittle (Character) | $24.5M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce | Self | - | 1986 |
81% | 94% | The Color Purple | Celie (Character) | $93.4M | 1985 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Con | Narrator | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The View | Host | 2013-2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desus & Mero | Guest | 2021 |
57% | 23% | The Stand | Mother Abagail (Character) | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | 39% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015-2020 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Blue Bloods | Regina Thomas (Guest Star) | 2020 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon |
Unknown (Character), Guest |
2020 2018 2014-2016 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elena of Avalor | Lama (Guest Voice) | 2018-2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shop | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tamron Hall | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2019 2013-2017 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2019 2015-2017 2013 2008-2011 |
No Score Yet | 37% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2019 2017 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2015-2019 2012-2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strahan & Sara | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning America | Guest | 2018-2019 2011-2015 2008-2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | GMA Day | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dish Nation | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Tonight Canada | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | etalk | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2017-2018 |
54% | 62% | Instinct | Joan Ross (Guest Star) | 2018 |
83% | 82% | James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Axe Files With David Axelrod | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Project Runway All Stars | Judge | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chew | Guest | 2017 2015 2011-2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desus & Mero | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miles From Tomorrowland | The GameMaster (Guest Voice) | 2016-2017 |
82% | No Score Yet | When We Rise | Pat Norman (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Messy Truth | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Nightcap | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strut | Executive Producer | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | StoryBots | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle | Judge | 2016 |
38% | 77% | Maya & Marty | Music Performer | 2016 |
90% | 70% | Nashville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 2014 |
99% | 86% | Broad City | Whoopi Goldberg (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Studios.TV | Guest | 2015-2016 |
78% | 89% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Janette Grayson (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 7D | Magic Mirror (Voice) | 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hey Moe, Hey Dad! | Self | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2014 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Extreme Weight Loss | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dr. Oz Show | Guest | 2014 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live! With Kelly and Michael | Guest | 2014 |
70% | 71% | Glee | Carmen Tibideaux (Guest Star) | 2014 2012 |
63% | 65% | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland |
Unknown (Guest Voice), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Queen Latifah Show | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Arsenio Hall Show | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tonight Show With Jay Leno | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Katie | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dance Moms | Whoopi Goldberg (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live | Music Performer | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2013 2011 2009 |
58% | 74% | 666 Park Avenue | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 91% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Jane Marsh (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joy Behar Show | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Piers Morgan Tonight | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gayle King Show | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Guest | 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kickin' It: With Byron Allen | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ES.TV | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shatner's Raw Nerve | Guest | 2010 |
78% | 93% | 30 Rock | Whoopi Goldberg (Guest Star) | 2009 2007 |
24% | No Score Yet | The Cleaner | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Campbell Brown | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live With Regis and Kelly | Guest | 2008-2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life on Mars | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
66% | 83% | Entourage | Whoopi Goldberg (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hell's Kitchen | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS News Sunday Morning | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street |
Unknown (Guest Star), Guest |
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1994-1996 |
95% | 98% | Everybody Hates Chris | Louise Clarkson (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just for Kicks | Executive Producer | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
81% | No Score Yet | So NoTORIous | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strong Medicine | Executive Producer | 2000-2006 |
26% | No Score Yet | Whoopi |
Marvis Rae (Character), Executive Producer |
2003-2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whose Line Is It Anyway? |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2001-2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Squares | Executive Producer | 2001-2002 |
8% | No Score Yet | The Weber Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice in Wonderland | Cheshire Cat (Voice) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The Nanny | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Unknown (Voice) | 1997 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chris Rock Show | Guest | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muppets Tonight | Guest | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MADtv | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
91% | 88% | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Guinan (Guest Star) | 1988-1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Gaia (Voice) | 1990-1992 |
82% | 98% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joan Rivers Show | Guest | 1991 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Live Interviews | Guest |
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