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.
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