People
Oprah Winfrey
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954), also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Princess and the Frog
As Eudora (voice)
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
As Self
TINA
As Self
The Butler
As Gloria Gaines
Piece by Piece
As Oprah Winfrey (voice) (archive footage)
The Color Purple
As Sofia
Visible: Out on Television
As Self
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
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Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
2025 · Self
Piece by Piece
2024 · Oprah Winfrey (voice) (archive footage)
TINA
2021 · Self
Visible: Out on Television
2020 · Self
Spielberg
2017 · Self
Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Before the Flood
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Selma
2014 · Annie Lee Cooper
The Armstrong Lie
2013 · Self (archive footage)
The Butler
2013 · Gloria Gaines
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · Eudora (voice)
Beloved
1998 · Sethe
Throw Momma from the Train
1987 · Oprah Winfrey
The Color Purple
1985 · Sofia
