Oprah Gail Winfrey (January 29th 1954 with Kosciusko, the Mississippi -) is a Actrice, producing and stimulating of American Télévision . Extremely influential personality in its country, it is also one of the first black women to being become billionaire, grace in particular to his activities of producing.

In 2007, it is classified like the most powerful celebrity in the world by the magazine Forbes . Always by this same magazine, it is classified the 1st richest woman of the world of the showbizz with 1,5 billion dollar and is classified like the 21e the most powerful woman in the world.

Its beginnings

Born in the Mississippi, it becomes " Miss Black Tennessee" at the 19 years age. She on television makes her beginnings on a small chain of Nashville, subsidiary of ABC TV. She joined then a chain of TV of Chicago TV where she makes of a morning emission of third zone number 1 of the Audimat.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

In 1986, it launches its Talk-show: " The Oprah Winfrey Show" who gains a success without fault since his beginnings. From now on diffused in 112 countries, the program is today guaranteed by contract to be with the antenna at least until 2010-11.

It has a considerable capacity on the televiewers who look at it. After it recommended to the antenna the novel Anna Karénine published in 1877 by Leon Tolstoï, the book leaped at the top of the best sales of the classification of the NewYork Times .

She lives alternatively Hawaii, Santa Barbara or Chicago. Its foundation The Oprah Winfrey Foundation created The Oprah' S Angel Network to come to assistance of disinherited.

Catalog of films

As an actress

As producing

  • 1998 : Beloved (Beloved) of Jonathan Demme

Anecdotes

In 2005, it offered a car to the 200 people come to attend her emission of talk show!

The same year, it makes analyze its DNA to identify its origins. It is disappointed to learn that it is not Zulu origin, as it had supposed. Its origins are more probably associated to the people Kpelle (Guinea and Liberia), Bamileke (Cameroun) and Nkoya (Zambia).

In France, it was especially made known by the scandal against the sign Hermes. The Parisian Hermes shop had indeed refused to him the access, fifteen minutes after closing.

At the 14 years age it put at the world a child, who died prematurely. His/her mother then sent it to Nashville to live in her father who undertook his education.

Others

  • In January 2007, Oprah went to Johannesburg in South Africa to inaugurate there, at the sides of Nelson Mandela a school for young girls whom it financed. The young girls whose parents have incomes lower than 290€ will be able to enter there in order to be formed and to become future the executives of the South Africa.

  • Oprah is quoted with each episode of the series TV " Californication" (season 1,2007) by the writer camped by David Duchovny on the mode of derision: " that would make a very good scene for Oprah" , " that could pass to Oprah" … quotations which illustrate the way in which the emission could pass in the usual vocabulary.

See too

External bond

  • Official site
  • Card IMDB

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