Official biography of oprah winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born in in Kosciusko, Mississippi. At the age of 19, Winfrey landed her first broadcasting job as a reporter for radio station WVOL in Nashville. She enrolled in Tennessee State University to study speech and performing arts in , and in , she was named Nashville's Miss Fire Prevention, followed bygd being named Miss Black stat i usa in In her sophomore year at Tennessee State University, Winfrey switched to media and became the first African-American anchor at Nashville's WTVF-TV. In she moved to Baltimore to co-anchor the six o'clock news. Once there she was recruited to co-host Baltimore's WJZ-TV's local talk show, People Are Talking. In she relocated again, this time to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago. AM Chicago becomes the number one talk show a mere month later. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey had her feature film debut as "Sofia" in Steven

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Oprah Winfrey: Early Life and Education, Notable Accomplishments, and Philanthropy

Oprah Winfrey is a beloved American icon and billionaire reportedly worth $ billion as of the end of She is a multimedia executive, actress, writer, producer, talk show host, and philanthropist whose reach and success extend to nearly all aspects of media. A self-made success story, Winfrey is the recipient of hundreds of awards, from The People's Choice Award for her talk show to the prestigious  National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award in

Winfrey founded and is chair and CEO of a multimedia production company, Harpo Productions, and founder of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also a spokeswoman and partial owner of many brands, including WW. Her generous philanthropic work reaches local, national, and global platforms.

Although Oprah Winfrey ended the iconic Oprah Winfrey Show in , her empire continues to thrive and grow. She also continues to do in-depth interviews on primetime telekommunikation

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Oprah Winfrey

American entertainer (born )

"Oprah" redirects here. Not to be confused with Orpah or Opera.

For the talk show, see The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey;^[a] January 29, ), 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 to ^[3][4] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",^[5] she was the richest African-American of the 20th century^[6][7] and was once the world's only black billionaire.^[8] By , she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.^[9][10]

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her ch