My complete name is: Orpah Gail Winfrey, I was named "Orpah" on my birth certificate

after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and they
said "Oprah" stuck
I born in January 29 of 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi into poverty in rural I actually have
63 years old
Im an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, as
you know philanthropist mean a person who seeks to promote the comfort of others,
especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
At the age of nineteen I began to flirt with the world of communication working as a
reporter at a Nashville radio station; I had entered 1971 at the University of Tennessee,
where I even won several beauty pageants. At twenty-two, I was move to Baltimore, where
I had an offer to present a TV show, People are talking. My first adventure on the little
screen lasted for eight years.

How and why Im known: Im best known for my talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show,
which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally
syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Also Im dubbed the "Queen of All
Media" the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American
history, Americas first and only multi-billionaire black person. In 2013, I was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate
degrees from Duke and Harvard

A genetic test in 2006 determined that matrilineal line originated among the Kpelle ethnic
group, in the area that today is Liberia. My genetic makeup was determined to be 89% Sub-
Saharan African, 8% Native American, and 3% East Asian.

To an unmarried teenage mother. Vernita Lee (born c. 1935), was a housemaid. I

considered that my conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke
up not long. After biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey (born 1933)

When I was 14, I became pregnant but my son was born prematurely and he died shortly
after birth.

In 1990 I began going to Lincoln High School; then I was transferred to the Nicolet High
School, where I remember my poverty was constantly emphasized in my face as I rode the
bus to school with fellow African-Americans, some of whom were servants of my
classmates' families. I start to steal money from my mother in an effort to have money like
my high school social partners, to lie to and argue with my mother, and to go out with older
boys.
my grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had me encouraged to speak in
public and "gave me a positive sense of myself
My career choice in media would not have surprised to my grandmother, who once said
that I could talk in public, as a child, I played games interviewing my corncob doll and the
crows on the fence of my family's property
In 1984 the movie critic Roger Ebert persuaded me to sign a syndication deal with King
World. Ebert predicted that I would generate 40 times as much revenue as his television
show, At the Movies. The Oprah Winfrey Show, expanded to a full hour and broadcast
nationally beginning September 8, displacing Donahue as the number-one daytime talk
show in America 1986 TIME magazine wrote: It is the talk show as a group therapy session
Finally, after twenty-five years in antenna, I ended my stage in front of the Oprah Winfrey
Show and founded in 2011 my own television network, The Oprah Winfrey Network
(OWN)
In 1999 it created Oxygen Media, corporation dedicated to the
production of contents for the private television and the Internet.
Online
My company Winfreys created the Oprah.com website to provide resources and interactive
content relating to my shows, magazines, book club, and public charity. Oprah.com and I
receives approximately 20,000 e-mails each week. Also I initiated "Oprah's Child Predator
Watch List", through my show and website, to help track down child molesters. Within the
first 48 hours, two of the featured men were capture.
In 1991 I conducted a campaign in favor of the creation of a database of pedophiles at
national level. This project was transformed into the law known as Oprah-bill, made reality
in 1993 under the presidency of Bill Clinton. I also promote a foundation that bears its
name and is dedicated to supporting the women and children of the world;
I have written books and practice literary criticism, I runs my own website and Im the
editor of the Oprah magazine, a magazine that since 2004 followed the line of my television
program. Also I participated in cinema: in films as well known as the Purple Color (1985),
by Steven Spielberg, for which I was nominated for the Oscar for best secondary actress;
Beloved (1998), Butler (2013) and Selma (2014); as you know I provided the voice for the
character of Eudora, the mother of Princess Tiana, in Disney's The Princess and the Frog
and in 2010, I narrated the US version of the BBC nature program Life for Discovery
I dont have children by choice because I orients my maternal instinct in the nearly 200
youth of my leadership Academy Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, founded
in 2015 where I teaches a class at the school via satellite.
My best friend of life since my early twenties is Gayle King. We are been friends since
1976 when I played the therapist on an episode of the sitcom; also had a long friendship
with Maria Shriver and considered Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings, my mentor and close friend; I called Angelou my "mother-sister-friend
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Programs Life class (2011-present)
's Next Chapter (2011-present)
The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011)
Active years 1983-present
Couple Stedman Graham (1986-present)
Graham and Winfrey were engaged to be married in November 1992, but later decided they
would rather have a "spiritual union".

To finish:
"Thank what you have and you'll end up having more." "If you always concentrate
on what you lack, you'll never have enough."
"Learn from every mistake, because every experience and particularly mistakes
teaches you and forces you to be who you really are."
"Try what you can't do." Fails. Try again. Improve the second time. The only people
who never stumble are those who do not dare more.
Thanks.