Oprah Winfrey

Personal details

Name: Oprah Winfrey
Birth Name: Oprah Gail Winfrey
Height: 5' 6½''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: January 29, 1954
Birth Place: Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
Profession: Producer, Actress, Soundtrack, Taklshow host, Author
Claim to fame: Host of The Oprah Winfrey Show

Oprah Winfrey’s Personal life:

Relationship:

Stedman Graham who was an author, an educator; and they lived together since 1986; however they decided to end their relationship in the year June 2006

Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globe Awards

Oprah's Awards and Nominations:

• 1971 Miss Black Tennesee
• 1985 Promising New Actors of 1985 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37
• 1997 People's 50 Most Beautiful People
• 1997 Most Important Person in Books and Media (Newsweek)
• 1998 Daytime Emmy, The Oprah Winfrey Show
• 1999 #6 World's Most Powerful People in Showbiz by Entertainment Weekly
• 1999 National Book Award "Influential contribution to reading and books"
• 2003 AAP Honors Award by the Association of American Publishers
• 2006 Library Lion Award by The New York Public Library

Oprah Winfrey’s Family background:

Father: Vernon Winfrey - barber, businessman, city-council member; who never married to Oprah's mother

Mother: Vernita Lee

Step Mother: Zelma Winfrey who expired in the year 1996

Oprah Winfrey’s Childhood:

Education:

East Nashville High School in Nashville, Tennessee where she graduated in the year 1971.

Tennessee State University where she completed her graduation with a degree in Speech and Performing Arts

Oprah Winfrey’s facts and trivia’s:

One of her most preferred book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

She is the producer of The Color Purple on Broadway in late 2005 and she was also featured in the same movie of the same work in 1986 .

She also co-founded the women's cable television network Oxygen.

She happens to be the president of Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards).

She was born at 7:51 PM eastern standard time.

She had a boy when she was barely 14 years old. Conversely the baby departed this life about two weeks later because he was two months early.

Her name was actually supposed to be Orpah, but it was spelled mistakenly on her birth certificate.

Oprah's nickname is "O," which is also the title of her magazine.

She is about 5'6.5" tall.

She reveled that she made a donation of $10 million to victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Along with the many exclusive and classy gifts that she's given to her studio audience, in one episode, Oprah gave every person a car.

She has received a payment of $130,000,000 for continuing her talk show through the 1999-2000 TV seasons.

Oprah Winfrey’s PERSONAL QUOTES

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance--and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning