# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/whoopi-goldberg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:31.413Z

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name: "Whoopi Goldberg"
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description: "One of 28 people to close the EGOT — and she got there by way of a one-woman show, a psychic in a pottery scene, and a nun who can't quite stay out of trouble."
tagline: "American actress, comedian, author and television personality"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Caryn Elaine Johnson started with one-woman shows on stage, and a recording of her 1984–1985 Broadway run won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. Steven Spielberg cast her as a mistreated woman in The Color Purple, earning her a Golden Globe, then she played Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation and an eccentric psychic in Ghost — the latter won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the second African-American woman with that win. Sister Act and its sequel made her the highest-paid actress at the time, and she kept working: Soapdish, a hyena in The Lion King, Girl, Interrupted. She won the Tony as a producer on Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002, closing the EGOT. Since 2007 she's co-hosted The View, hosted the Academy Awards four times, returned to Star Trek: Picard as Guinan, and played Miss Hannigan in a 2025 revival of Annie.