Oprah Winfrey Biography

      Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best accepted for her self-titled, multi-award acceptable allocution show, which has become the highest-rated affairs of its affectionate in history and was nationally amalgamated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest atramentous philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's alone atramentous billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the best affecting woman in the world.

      Winfrey was built-in into abjection in rural Mississippi to a boyish distinct mother and afterwards aloft in an burghal Milwaukee neighborhood. She accomplished ample accident during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and acceptable abundant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to alive with the man she calls her father, a beautician in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in aerial academy and began co-anchoring the bounded black account at the age of 19. Her affecting extemporaneous commitment eventually got her transferred to the daytime allocution appearance arena, and afterwards advocacy a third-rated bounded Chicago allocution appearance to aboriginal abode she launched her own assembly aggregation and became internationally syndicated.

     Credited with creating a added affectionate confessional anatomy of media communication, she is anticipation to accept affected and revolutionized the abridged allocution appearance brand pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale abstraction claims bankrupt 20th aeon taboos and accustomed LGBT bodies to access the mainstream.By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her appearance with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing acknowledgment ability and announcement arguable self-help aids,she is generally accepted for advantageous affliction to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008, her abutment of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a actor votes in the abutting 2008 Democratic primary race.