Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is one of America's most influential women. Born Orpah Winfrey on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi - USA, but now goes by the name of Oprah. Winfrey studied at the Tennessee State University and received a BA in Speech and Performing Arts. She became involved in several groups and pursued her interests in media and journalism while at University. She was the first black African American woman television news anchor to work in Nashville on the WTVF-TV station at the young age of 19. It is, currently, the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States The Oprah Winfrey Show went on to become one of the most successful and highest ranked television talk show programs in history. The show is highly influential, especially with women, and many of its topics penetrate into American pop-cultural consciousness.
Winfrey publishes two magazines: O, The Oprah Magazine and O at Home and she has co-authored five books.
In 1985, Winfrey co-starred in Steven Spielberg's epic film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. In October 1998, Winfrey produced and starred in the film Beloved,
In 2005, Harpo Productions released another film adaptation of a famous American novel, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), starred by Halle Berry in the lead female role.

Peculiarity: He’s a left-hander.