Is whoopi goldberg still alive
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She’s an Academy Award-winning actress, comedian, radio host, and television personality. She is one of the only ten people to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award; and is the first woman to be honored with the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In addition to her success on stage and screen, Whoopi has written three books, two of which are for children, and is a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador. Seeing her now, speaking for HIV/AIDS causes for UNICEF, sharing her quick, unique, and witty sense of humor on The View, it’s hard to imagine that this successful woman once struggled in school, hearing words such as “dumb” and “stupid” directed at her.
She didn’t know it then, but there was a reason for her feeling as if she wasn’t grasping anything taught in the classroom. Whoopi has dyslexia, but during her early years, she didn’t have a diagnosis, only her self-given diagnosis as abnormally slow. “You don’t want to be retarded all your life,” she tells Laura Randolph of Ebony magazine in a 1991 article. “I was retarded for a good part of
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Whoopi Goldberg
(1955-)
Who Is Whoopi Goldberg?
Whoopi Goldberg starred in a popular one-woman production in 1983, and in 1985 she won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording. That same year, Goldberg's success with The Color Purple launched a highly visible acting career.
Goldberg won an Academy Award in 1991 for her performance in Ghost, and in 2007 she embarked on a lengthy run as moderator of the TV talk show The View. Goldberg is also known for being among a very small group of celebrities who've achieved "EGOT" status, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.
Early Life
Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson on November 13, 1955, in New York City. Goldberg and her older brother, Clyde, were raised by their mother, Emma, in a housing project in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
Goldberg's father abandoned the family, and her single mother worked at a variety of jobs — including teaching and nursing — to make ends meet. Goldberg changed her name when she decided that her given name was too boring. She claims to be half Jewish and half Cathol
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Whoopi Goldberg
What was your childhood like?
Whoopi Goldberg: I grew up in Manhattan, in New York, a place called Chelsea. And I grew up around lots of different people. So we all grew up speaking a smattering of Greek, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Yiddish. I had a great time. There were all sorts of things to play with and to go and be part of. Which now you can do on interactive things like this. You couldn’t go and talk to Leonard Bernstein; you could only go watch him conduct. Something I’m very sorry for.
Were your parents comfortable?
Whoopi Goldberg: I can’t speak for what they were. I was comfortable. I knew we weren’t Rockefellers, but it was never an issue because we went to places we needed to go — Coney Island, we went on the Circle Line, we had Central Park. There were things you could do without tons of money.
So, I truly don’t know what my mom was doing financially. I know that we ate, and times weren’t like they are now. I don’t know that my mother could have achieved all she achieved on her income today. In
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