Oprah Winfrey, an American TV talk show host and actress, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954.
Oprah Gail Winfrey, an American talk show presenter, television producer, actor, author, and philanthropist, was born on January 29, 1954. Her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was aired from Chicago and was the highest-rated television programme of its kind in history for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011, was the highest-rated television programme of its kind in history. She was dubbed the "Queen of All Media" and was once the world's only black millionaire and the greatest black philanthropist in US history. By 2007, she was sometimes listed as the most important woman in the world.
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