Whoopi Goldberg - Hollywood, CA
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Whoopi Goldberg is a prominent American actress.
Waymark Code: WMQ058
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2015
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Hollywood honors over 2400 celebrities of stage, screen, song and radio with stars like this one along the Hollywood Walk of Fame- fifteen blocks along Hollywood Blvd.
This one honors actress Whoopi Goldberg.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame's website (
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"Category: Motion pictures
Unveiled: 13 Nov 2001
Address:
6807 Hollywood Blvd
Star Rank:
Currently: 187th
90 Day Average: 178th"
Wikipedia (
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"Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),[1][2] better known by her stage name Whoopi Goldberg (/'hw?pi/), is an American actress, comedian, writer, social critic, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar.
Her breakthrough role was playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Goldberg played Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore), in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was co-producer of the television game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2002. She has been the moderator of the daytime television talk show The View since 2007."