Oprah Winfrey by Emily Nicole Keating https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf She en-us 2017-09-18 13:16:41 UTC 2025-09-24 22:09:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Oprah Winfrey: 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188450133 Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.]]> 2017-09-18 13:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188450133 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188451249 Age: 63

Birthplace: Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States of America

Profession: Businessperson, Journalist, Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, + more

]]> 2017-09-18 13:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188451249 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188451622 Media mogul and syndication pioneer. Likely the only African-American billioinaire in America. ]]> 2017-09-18 13:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188451622 Early Days: 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188452393 Winfrey was born in 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She suffered during her teens at the hands of her male relatives and male friends of her mother who sexually abused her. Winfrey subsequently moved to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee where she studied at Tennessee State University and started a career in TV and Radio broadcasting.

Winfrey moved to Baltimore in 1976 where she became the host of the chat show, People Are Talking. The show was a hit with viewers and stayed that way for eight years. After this period, a Chicago TV Station hired Winfrey to host her own morning show, AM Chicago. After a few short months, Winfrey’s friendly demeanour had won her over one hundred thousand more viewers than her nearest competitor and AM Chicago went from last place to top of the ratings chart. The success took her to nationwide fame and a part in the 1985 film, The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg. Winfrey was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

]]> 2017-09-18 13:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188452393 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188453619 Oprah Winfrey’s estimated net worth is $3 Billion.
As of 2014, Winfrey has a net worth in excess of 2.9 billion dollars and has overtaken former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as the richest self-made woman in America.]]> 2017-09-18 13:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188453619 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188454729 Winfrey secured her place at the top of the media industry and one of the wealthiest people in show business with the debut of Oxygen Media in 1999, a company she co-founded that is dedicated to producing cable and Internet programming for women. In 2002, she finalized a deal with the network to air a prime-time complement to her syndicated talk show.]]> 2017-09-18 13:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188454729 319748 https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188459266 Forbes' international rich list has listed Winfrey as the world's only black billionaire from 2004 to 2006 and as the first black woman billionaire in world history.]]> 2017-09-18 13:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/319748/acg4omnkkbgf/wish/188459266