After 25 years at the helm of her successful and influential The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011), which reached millions of viewers, the veteran American presenter channels her entire media empire through her company Harpo Productions.
He has in his record having interviewed the most relevant people of the 20th and 21st centuries. The latest and most in the media: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Harry and Meghan Markle.
Considered a national icon, on December 13 it was included in the collection of the prestigious National Portrait Gallery of the United States.
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Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954, she lived a difficult childhood, suffering sexual abuse at age 9, leaving home at 13, and becoming pregnant at 14, although the child died at birth.
However, in his struggle he moved forward and achieved his desire to work on television. She studied Journalism at the University of Tennessee and, after doing all kinds of jobs, she would be hired by local Nashville station WTVF-TV to co-anchor the evening newscast.
Thus, Oprah became the first African-American woman to obtain this position in Tennessee.
He then moved to Baltimore and joined WJZ-TV, where he hosted his first talk show, People are Talking.
Her brilliant work took her to Chicago, where ABC entrusted her with the morning variety show AM Chicago in 1984.
The success of the program, with million-dollar audiences, led the producers in 1986 to change its name to The Oprah Winfrey Show, to give it greater personality and broadcast it nationally.
Brilliant and loved by the public, in 1995 she extended her contract with CBS, for an undisclosed millionaire figure, and contemplated that she would continue with The Oprah Winfrey Show until the year 2000, the production of prime time programs and the realization of new projects. for video, multimedia and radio.
An outstanding communicator, she has allowed the most significant figures from inside and outside the United States, and from all walks of life, to pass through her spaces.
Elizabeth Taylor and her ex-husband Larry Fortensky have confessed to her; the Duchess of York, Sara Ferguson; the basketball player ‘Magic’ Johnson or the director Spike Lee.
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Featured interviews
However, the exclusive interview that he did with Michael Jackson in 1993 stands out, after 14 years of strict silence, or more recently the one with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan Markle, in which she accused the royal house British of racism, pointed out Buckingham Palace for perpetuating lies about Harry and her, and admitted that she had suicidal thoughts due to the pressure she suffered.
The then first lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton (1997), was added to this broad list of interviewees; presidential candidates Al Gore and George Bush (2000); former President Clinton (2004 and 2007); Tom Cruise (2005); Whitney Houston (2009) or Mark Zuckerberg (2010).
A Democratic sympathizer, since 2007 he has opted for Barack Obama, whom he interviewed in 2011 in one of his last programs on ABC.
Millionaire audiences
Generator of opinion in the United States, especially among women, Oprah has managed to skyrocket the sales of a book or a writer that she mentions.
In parallel, its space on ABC reached audiences of 46 million weekly viewers in the United States and was broadcast in 134 countries in such a way that it became the fourth most watched, with 7.1 million viewers. On her OWN channel, she presents spaces such as Oprah’s Master Class (2011-18), Oprah’s Lifeclass (2011-14), Oprah’s Next Chapter (2012-15) or the spiritual Super Soul Sunday (since 2011).
Forbes magazine placed her in the mid-nineties at the head of the highest-paid characters in entertainment, from which she ousted filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
With a fortune estimated at $2.7 billion, according to the aforementioned magazine, she was ranked 20th among the most influential women in the world for years.
A strong defender of African American and women’s rights, she is an important philanthropist. In 1987 she created her foundation and in 2007 her Youth Leadership Academy in South Africa.
A versatile artist, she has also made inroads into the world of acting, such as when in 1985 Steven Spielberg had her act in The Color Purple, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting performer.
This experience was followed by: Native son (1986), Throw momma from the train (1987), Listen up (1990) and Beloved (1998) –about slavery in the US–.
In 2012, he returned to film with The Butler, by Lee Daniels, a film about a butler who served eight American presidents, and in 2017 with the Disney film A Wrinkle in Time.
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Award-winning career
Oprah’s career has been recognized with the most distinguished awards such as the Women’s Awards, which she received on up to three occasions for the best global interviewer and favorite American presenter.
He also has the first Bob Hope Television Emmy for his humanitarian work, a special award from the National Book Awards in the US, the honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Hollywood Academy, the Presidential Medal of the Freedom that President Obama granted him, or the honorific Cecil B. de Mille from the Golden Globes.
The journalist has decided not to get married, although she has had a romantic relationship for three decades with the leading writer and businessman, Stedman Graham, with whom she lives in his mansion in Santa Monica, in the exclusive Montecito neighborhood, along with her three dogs and whose neighbors are, among others, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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