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Winfrey, Oprah Gail
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Winfrey, Oprah Gail (1954– )

US television talk-show host and actor. She is best known for her multi-Emmy award winning talk show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, which was syndicated in 1986 and went on to become the most popular talk show on US television. Winfrey received an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Color Purple (1985). She produced and starred in Beloved (1998) which she produced, based on the novel by Toni Morrison.

Winfrey was a television journalist at WVOL in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1971 to 1972 and later co-hosted Baltimore is Talking from 1977 to 1984. In 1984 she hosted ABC's AM Chicago, the success of which resulted in the Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey has also greatly influenced US publishing through her Oprah Winfrey Book Club and her popular women's lifestyle magazine, O. She launced Oxygen Media, a cable channel for women, in 1998.

In 1998 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. When Forbes magazine published its list of the USA's billionaires for the year 2003, it disclosed that Winfrey was the first African-American woman to become a billionaire.
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Summary: Oprah Winfrey is poised to announce that she is ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air.
Oprah to pull plug on chat show by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
11/21/2009 1:28:18 AM Oprah Winfrey has announced that her powerhouse daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire with legions of fans, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air.
Oprah to end her talk show in 2011 by Aljazeera.net
Byline: MARK JEFFERIES THE Oprah Winfrey Show is to end in September 2011 after more than two decades.
Oprah calls time on TV chatshow; AMERICA by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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