Whoopi Goldberg is one of an elite group of artists who have won the Grammy, the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Emmy and a Tony. She is also a prolific producer, bestselling author and entrepreneur and she is well-known around the world for her many humanitarian endeavors. Born and raised in New York City, she performed in San Diego and the Bay Area with the Blake Street Hawkeyes theatre troupe. It was there that she created the characters which became “The Spook Show” and evolved into her hit Broadway show, Grammy Award-winning album and the HBO special that helped launch her career.

Whoopi made her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg’s film version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” for which she earned an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.  Her performance in “Ghost” earned her the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and she has starred in such films as “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Clara’s Heart,” “The Long Walk Home,” “Soapdish,” “Sister Act,” “Made in America,” “Boys on the Side,” “Ghosts of Mississippi,” “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” “Girl, Interrupted,” and such animated classics as “The Lion King” and “Toy Story 3.” 

Whoopi has recurring roles on Amazon’s “Harlem” and the EPIX series, “Godfather of Harlem.”  She reprised her iconic role of Guinan in season two of the Paramount+ series, “Star Trek: Picard” and lent her voice to the recent animated features “Luck” (Apple TV+) and “My Father’s Dragon” (Netflix).  She starred in the 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel “The Stand,” and she appeared in and produced the critically-acclaimed feature film, “Till,” which has amassed countless awards and honors since its release in late 2022.  She will appear in the highly-anticipated Amazon Prime Video series based on Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys.”

Her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, is out May 7 and she will publish her first graphic novel, The Change, this Summer.