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Orpah Gail Winfrey, known professionally as Oprah Winfrey or just Oprah, is an American actress, talk show host, television producer, author, philanthropist, and media proprietor. She is best known for her self-titled syndicated talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show (19862011), which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history. She has also been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest philanthropist in American history, and was, for a time, the world's only African-American billionaire. Additionally, according to some assessments, she is the most influential woman in the world. She is known for her role as Sofia Johnson in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple (in which she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress). She also starred in historical drama films, including Lee Daniel's The Butler and Ava DuVernay's Selma. Additionally, she voiced Deborah the camel in the 2017 Sony Pictures animated biblical comedy film The Star.

For Disney, she voiced Eudora in the 2009 Disney animated feature film The Princess and the Frog. She also portrayed Sethe in and produced the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film Beloved. Additionally, she produced several telefilms for ABC and played Mrs. Which in the 2018 sci-fi film A Wrinkle in Time.

A caricature of Oprah appeared in The Proud Family, but was voiced by comedian Debra Wilson.

In 2017, she was named a Disney Legend.

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