Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is famous internationally for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show which is broadcasted from Chicago. It was termed as the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother. She had to face lots of hardships at her young age and was molested during her childhood and in her early teenage years, she became pregnant. Her son was born prematurely and died in infancy
She was then sent to live with Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville, Tennessee whom she calls father. She later landed a job in radio in her high school days and by 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Her excellent talking style and confidence gave her a path to move on and later she launched her own production company.
Apart from having a great career in media she also emerged as a political force in the 2008 presidential race with her endorsement of Barack Obama. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and received honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard. In 2008, she formed her network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
She is also known as “Queen of All Media. Oprah was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world’s only black billionaire as well as the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world. Recently Oprah Winfrey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, and has an age of 68 years.
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Oprah Winfrey and her longtime partner, Stedman Graham, never had any children together, but over the last 12 years, she has become “Mom O” to hundreds of girls.
In 2007, she started the famous Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG) in South Africa to provide educational opportunities to bright, smart, and intelligent girls struggling with poverty.
The inaugural class of 72 girls graduated in 2011 and one of those graduates, Thando Dlomo, ended up getting a master’s degree at the University of Southern California, and now works at Entertainment Tonight as a digital associate at ET Live. She also appeared in over 30 theatre productions in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in documentaries and specials such as People T.V’s Oprah’s Daughters, and Fusion’s O Girls
Here to find the Oprah Winfrey Pictures
You can find pictures of Oprah Winfrey in her Instagram account (@oprah). She has over 20.6 million followers and 1239 posts. Most of the posts are her photos as well as beautiful short reels from her life. She is active on Instagram and uploads her pictures every week. You can also find her pictures on her Twitter account. Shutterstock and Alamy also provide her high-definition pictures.
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