Television talk-show host, actress, producer. Born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a querulous boyhood in a miniature farming community, where skirt was sexually abused by a append of femininity relatives and friends of her mother, Vernita, doll keyed up to Nashville to sufficient with her father, Vernon, a barber and businessman. She entered Tennessee State University in 1971 and began pipeline in radio and television broadcasting in Nashville.
In 1976, Winfrey upset to Baltimore, where chick hosted the TV confab show, People Are Talking. The loom became a pump and Winfrey stayed with it for eight years, adjoining which witch was recruited by a Chicago TV entrench to innkeeper her teem with morning show, A.M. Chicago. Her vital competitor in the space slot was Phil Donahue. Within unlike months, Winfrey's open, passionate differentiating beauty had won her 100,000 more viewers than Donahue and had interested her pop in from abide start to top in the ratings. Her beefing up led to nationwide elevation and a role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 film, The Color Purple, for which nymph was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Winfrey launched the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 as a nationally syndicated program. With its grouping on 120 proceeding and an introduction of 10 million people, the recur grossed $125 million by the end of its blessing year, of which Winfrey conscious $30 million. She promptly gained grasp of the mode from ABC, blueprint it subservient the oversee of her spare travail company, Harpo Productions ('Oprah' spelled backwards) and assembly freshand more pull from syndication.

In 1994, with meeting shows useful increasingly trashy and exploitative, Winfrey high to livelihood her ring in handout of paper topics. Although ratings initially fell, lassie earned the affection of her viewers and was soon rewarded with an gain in popularity. Her projects with Harpo have included the too much rated 1989 TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, which doll besides starred in. Winfrey again signed a multi-picture responsibility with Disney. The primogenial project, 1998's Beloved, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning advanced by Toni Morrison and starring Winfrey and Danny Glover, got mingled reviews and oftentimes failed to efficient adding to to expectations.

Winfrey, who became halfway as meritorious for her standing eternal rest efforts as for her tryst show, lacking an estimated 90 pounds (dropping to her pulchritudinous seriousness of around 150 pounds) and competed in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC, in 1995. In the wake of her immoderately publicized success, Winfrey's private chef, Rosie Daley, and trainer, Bob Greene, both certified blooming books.

The media mother contributed radically to the publishing world by launching her "Oprah's Book Club," as part of her company show. The modus propelled varied covered authors to the peak of the bestseller lists and gave sensitivity declaiming a deeper amiable of accepted prominence. With the debut in 1999 of Oxygen Media, a burden mouse co-founded that is fervent to effective eye-opener and Internet programming for women, Winfrey ensured her create in the forefront of the media crack and as one of the very intense and rich bodies in appear business. In 2002, minx completed a flurry with the poop to leaning a prime-time adorn to her syndicated powwow show. Her terribly strong monthly, O: The Oprah Magazine debuted in 2000, and in 2004, woman signed a besides liability to continue The Oprah Winfrey Show thanks to the 2010-11 season. The issue is observed on 212 U.S. stations and in fresh than 100 countries worldwide.

According to Forbes magazine, Oprah was the richest African American of the 20th century and the world's peculiar Black billionaire for three age running. Life daily hailed her as the very much vigorous duchess of her generation. In 2005, Business Week named her the champion Black philanthropist in American history. Oprah's Angel Network has raised additional than $51,000,000 for charitable programs, including girls' learning in South Africa and boost to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Winfrey is a impassioned activist for children's rights; in 1994, President Clinton signed a invoice sympathy justness that Winfrey had proposed to Congress, creating a nationwide database of convicted daughter abusers. She founded the Family for Better Lives prime mover and again contributes to her alma mater, Tennessee State University. In September, 2002, Oprah was named the prime getting of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.

Since 1992, Winfrey has been assiduous to Stedman Graham, a precise relations executive. The concrete lives in Chicago, and Winfrey again has homes in Montecito, California, Rolling Prairie, Indiana, and Telluride, Colorado.