Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Gail Winfrey
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Also known as:	Oprah
Born:	January 29, 1954 (1954-01-29) (age 59) Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States
Ethnicity:	Black
Nationality:	American
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Boobs:	Natural
Body type:	Chubby
Eye color:	Brown
Hair:	Brown Long, Curly
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Blogs:	Twitter
Communities:	Facebook
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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media personality, Academy Award nominated actress, producer, and magazine publisher, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history.^[1] She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century,^[2] the most philanthropic African American of all time,^[3] and was once the world's only black billionaire.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.^[9][10][11]

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, including being raped at age 9 and becoming pregnant at age 14. Tragedy followed as her son died in infancy.^[12] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.^[13] Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,^[5] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,^[14] she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized^[14] the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue,^[14] which a Yale study claimed broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream.^[15] By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others.^[16] In 2006 she became an early supporter of Barack Obama and one analysis estimates she delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race,^[17] an achievement for which the governor of Illinois considered offering her a seat in the U.S. senate.^[18]

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