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  1. www.oprah.com › pressroom › oprah-winfreys-official-biographyOprah Winfrey's Official Biography

    May 17, 2011 · The official biography about Oprah Winfrey includes an interactive timeline of Oprah's life and career, her production company and philanthropic efforts.

  2. Jan 29, 2021 · In the mid-1970s, Winfrey became the first Black woman to anchor a nightly news program in Nashville at the age of 19 while in college. A decade later, she became the host of A.M. Chicago ...

  3. Oprah Gail Winfrey, also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.

  4. Oprah Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), which was the highest-rated TV program in history and ran for 25 years from 1986 to 2011.

  5. Oprah Winfrey, (born Jan. 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Miss., U.S.), U.S. television talk-show host and actress. After enduring an impoverished and troubled childhood, she became a news anchor for a local CBS television station in Tennessee at age 19.

  6. Aug 21, 2019 · Early Life. Oprah Winfrey was born Orpah Gail Winfrey on January 29, 1954, in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenager named Vernita Lee, a housekeeper. Although her first name was officially spelled Orpah —a name from the Hebrew Book of Ruth—mispronunciations and misspellings eventually won out and Orpah became Oprah.

  7. Jun 1, 2018 · 75. 7.7K views 5 years ago #Biography. Learn about Oprah's difficult childhood and how she turned her life around, becoming a news anchor in Chicago to inking The Oprah Winfrey Show. Explore...

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