Whoopi Goldberg Salary

Whoopi Goldberg receives a respectable wage. She was paid an annual salary of $8 million which translates to a monthly pay of $100,000.

Whoopi Goldberg Net Worth

Whoopi Goldberg is currently estimated to be worth $60.8 million. Her adaptability in each of the fields she has worked in has helped her build up her wealth. Her work as an actor and comedian is her primary source of income. Her expected increase in net worth as her profession develops.

Whoopi Goldberg Bio

Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress and comedian. Only 16 people in history have received Emmy, Grammy, Academy, and Tony Awards. She is one of them (EGOT).

Whoopi Goldberg Age

Caryn Elaine Johnson known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13, 1955 in New York City, America. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. As of 2023 she is 67 years old.

Whoopi Goldberg Love Life

Goldberg has had three marriages.
From 1973 to 1979, she was wed to drug counselor Alvin Martin. From 1986 to 1988 to David Claessen served as the director of photography. Lastly, from 1994 to 1995, union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg.
Actor Frank Langella and playwright David Schein were her live-in partners.
Businessman Michael Visbal, orthodontist Jeffrey Cohen, cameraman Edward Gold, actors Timothy Dalton and Ted Danson are among her other ex-boyfriends.

Whoopi Goldberg Talks about marriage

She has stated that she has no plans to marry again: “Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people.” In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she was never in love with the men she married and commented: “You have to really be committed to them…I don’t have that commitment. I’m committed to my family.”

Whoopi Goldberg Child

On May 9, 1974, Goldberg gave birth to a daughter named Alexandrea Martin. Her daughter also rose to fame as a producer and actress.
Goldberg has three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

Whoopi Goldberg Abortion

In 1991’s book The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Gave a speech  About Abortion. Goldberg discussed her abortion. She discussed using a coat hanger to end a pregnancy at age 14. By the time she was 25 years old, she claimed to have had six or seven abortions and control pills failed to stop several of her pregnancies. Goldberg asserted that God would support abortion rights because he granted women the freedom of choice.

Whoopi Goldberg Career Background

With her one-woman play Spook Show, which was eventually renamed Whoopi Goldberg and performed on Broadway from 1984 to 1985, Goldberg launched her theater career in 1983. She was honored with the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show.

Her big break came in 1985 when Steven Spielberg’s historical drama The Color Purple earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayal of Celie, a victimized woman in the Deep South.

For her portrayal of a strange psychic in the romantic fantasy movie Ghost, she received a second Golden Globe Award as well as the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award (1990).

As a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, she won a Tony Award. Guinan was played by Goldberg in the science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

She has co-hosted and moderated the daytime talk show The View on ABC since 2007, winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her efforts. She has four times hosted the Academy Awards ceremony.