Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actor, producer and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled album, several awards talk-show winner, who became the highest rated program in its kind in history and was broadcast nationally from 1986 to 2011. It was ranked the richest African American of the 20th century century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire.She is, by some estimates, the woman most influential in the world.

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother, and then raised the internal area of ​​the city of Milwaukee. He had many difficulties during his childhood, claiming to be raped at the age of nine years, and pregnant at 14, her son died infancy.Sent to live with a man who calls his father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio was still in high school and began co-anchoring the local news at night at the age of 19 Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transfer to the camp daytime talk show, and then adding a third rated local Chicago talk show to first place, has launched his own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Credited with creating a more intimate confession of communication, she believed popular and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, a Yale study has broken taboos requested by 20 th century and LGBT people in the mid-mainstream.By 1990 years had reinvented her show career that focuses on literature, self-development and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture of a controversial self-help ideas and emotional point of view, he is often praised for having won the adversity to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008 has endorsed Barack Obama, an estimate that has carried more than a million votes in close race in the 2008 Democratic primary.