Oprah Winfrey, (born Jan. 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Miss., U.S.), U.S. television talk-show host and actress. After enduring an impoverished and troubled childhood, she became a news anchor for a local CBS television station in Tennessee at age 19. After graduating from Tennessee State University, she worked as a television reporter and anchor in Baltimore, Md., where she cohosted her first talk show (1977–83), and in 1984 she moved to Chicago to host A.M. Chicago, which became that city’s highest-rated morning show. Renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1985, it was syndicated the following year, making her the first African American woman to host a successful national daytime talk show. The enormously popular show was noted for its uplifting and therapeutic tone. In 1986 Winfrey also formed her own television production company, Harpo Productions, and in 2000 she launched O, the Oprah Magazine. In 2011 the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) debuted on cable television, and later that year the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired. Her acting credits include the films The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (1998).
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