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Oprah Gail Winfrey:
born January 29, 1954 is an American media proprietor,talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history.
She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently (2012) North America's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, saying she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Winfrey got her start when she was sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.
Although Oprah has struggled greatly in her life she made it to the top by working hard. She has accpmlished many things like:
Winning Best Talk Show Host at the Daytime Emmy Awards
Being a co-author in 5 different books
Forming Oxygen Media
Starred in the movie of the Toni Morrison novel, Beloved
Named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the year (2005)
In 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Oprah with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
In 2013, Oprah was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom
She has her own television network, OWN, and a new talk show called "Oprah's Next Chapter"
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."
-Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey has achinved and is now living THE American dream
