Whoopi Goldberg MOVIE ACTRESS

ABOUTComedic actress who gained recognition for her role in The Color Purple and co-produced the game show Hollywood Squares. She is one of very few actors to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony Award.

BEFORE FAMEFrom 1979 to 1981, she worked in several theater productions in Communist East Germany, where she smuggled contraband for her artist friends.

TRIVIAShe won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing an eccentric psychic in the 1990 movie Ghost.

FAMILY LIFEHer name comes from the whoopee cushion gag toy. She married Alvin Martin in 1973, and the couple had one daughter before divorcing in 1979.

ASSOCIATED WITHShe starred in the film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple.