EARLYYY LIFEE

• Her real name is: Caryn Elaine Johnson.


• Was born on November 13, 1949 in New York City.


• Occupation: Nurse and Teacher.


• Raised in housing project in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.


• Half Jewish and Half Catholic.


• Race or Ethnicty: Black.


• Nationallity: United States.


• Her father, a preacher, abandoned the family, leaving Goldberg's mother to raise two children alone.


• Goldberg started on stage at the city's Hudson Guild Community Center, and eventually moved to California, where she did experimental theater and supported herself with low-paying jobs as a manual laborer.


• she started hew own company, One Ho Production, in 1992, to produce and ssyndicate a late-night talks show, The Whoopi Goldberg show. In 1995, One Ho revived Goldberg's favorite games show fromher childhood, the Hollywood Squares, and Goldberg took Paul Lynde's old center square seat.


• Worked with improvemnt groups, including Spontaneous Combustion, and developed her skills as a stand-up comedienne.


• Known in her prosperous career as a unique and socially conscious talent with articulately liberal views.