1. Oprah Winfrey By Abbi and Louisa

2. Biography She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to a baptist family. Her parents were unmarried teenagers. Her mother was a house maid and her father was a coal miner. At the age of 6 she moved with her mother to Milwaukee, WI. She was molested by her cousin, uncle and family friend starting at the age of 9.

3. Continued… At age 13 she received a scholarship to Nicolet High School in the suburbs at Glendale, WI. When she was 14 she became pregnant but lost the baby after birth. She went to Tennessee State University.

4. Career Age of 17 work at a local radio station. She moved to Baltimore’s WJZ-TV in 1976 to co- anchor the 6 o clock news. 1978 she co host of WJZ’s local talk show. Also hosted the local version of Dialing For Dollars there as well. 1983 she relocated to Chicago to host WLS- TV a low rating morning show.

5. Cont…………. Within months the show took off and was the highest rated talk show in Chicago. It got renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986. 1985 she co stared in a film The Color Purple. 1998 she produced and starred in the film Beloved.

6. Cont…. In 2005 the Harpo Production released a film call Their Eyes Were Watching God. She publishes 2 magazines: O, the Oprah magazine and O at home. She has co-authored 5 books. 2006 signed a 3 year contracted with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel.

7. Cont…. The channel is called Oprah and Friends. In late 2006 Winfrey’s Harpo production and ABC revealed plans to bring two new reality TV shows to the air. One of the series is tentatively titled "Oprah Winfrey's The Big Give," and presents 10 people with large sums of money and resources and they must compete to find "the most powerful, sensational, emotional and dramatic ways to give to others." The second show, tentatively titled "Your Money or Your Life," will unleash an "expert action team" every week to aid a family in overcoming a crisis through a "total money and life makeover."Winfrey will also voice a part in Bee movie coming out in 2007

8. Journalism Winfrey changed the format of daytime talk show television by providing a platform for honest, sincere discussions of sensitive and sometimes controversial topics. Her nationally syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show" was one of the most popular shows of the 1980s and lasted into the next century.

9. Work Cited "Oprah Winfrey." Wikipedia. 13 July 2002. 6 Feb. 2007. Krohn, Katherine. Oprah Winfrey. Minneapolis: Learner Publications, 2005. 1-112.