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Oprah Winfrey is one of the most powerful, influential and famous women, and yet she seems like a friend to us all. She is an amazing woman with a drive to succeed and help others at the same time. Even with her incredible success and abundant wealth, she has an ability to connect with people in her unpretentious style. Oprah was a child prodigy born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her beginnings were humble and she was born out of wedlock. Her mother moved to the north and Oprah Winfrey was raised by her grandmother on a farm until the age of six. Her grandmother taught Oprah how to read at a very young age and opened a door of possibilities for her that instilled a life long love of reading. She would recite speeches in church at the age of three and hear her grandmother's friends speak about what a gifted child she was. Oprah later came to realize that spending the first years of her life with her grandmother instead of the tumultuous life with her mother not only gave her good start in her life, but probably saved her life as well. Oprah Winfrey did indeed eventually live with her mother in Milwaukee from the age of six to thirteen. Her life there was not the life she had with her grandmother on the farm. Oprah was abused and raped by a cousin when she was nine. The molestation did not end there and she was later sexually molested by a family friend and then an uncle. She ran away and was sent to a detention home but couldn't be admitted because the center was full. It was then Oprah was sent to Nashville at the age of thirteen to live with her father. Vernon Winfrey was very strict on her and made her keep a curfew. He also required her to read a book each week and write a book report. Even though he was a strict disciplinarian, Oprah's father was concerned with her doing the best in life and wouldn't accept anything less from her. Oprah Winfrey began her career in 1971 in broadcast when she started working at WVOL Radio Station in Nashville reading the news on the air. She was a senior in high school at the time, and would go to work at the radio station after school. Two years later at the age of nineteen, Oprah became the first African-American and the youngest person to co-anchor the six o'clock news on WJZ- TV in Nashville. It was here that she enrolled in Tennessee State University and majored in Speech Communications and Performing Arts. Oprah moved to Baltimore in 1976 to co-anchor the news at WJZ- TV. She was continuing her college education and working at the television station. Oprah would take her college classes in the in the mornings from eight o'clock until one o'clock, then go to work at the station at two o'clock and do the six o'clock evening news. Since she didn't get off work until ten o'clock, she would then have to stay up doing her college work. This was one of the most difficult times for Oprah and she felt torn between college life and building her career as a television reporter. As it turned out, Oprah had a difficult time being a news reporter. Some of the very qualities which endear her to the public as a talk show host were her downfall as a news reporter. Her sensitivity to others kept her from doing everything necessary to get the story as a news reporter must do. If someone had been through a tragedy and did not want to be interviewed on camera, she never pushed for a story. It was two years later that Oprah Winfrey worked at a talk show as a co-host at the same television station. The name of this first talk show she experienced was "People Are Talking." She still continued to work at the station as a co-anchor and reporter, but now her true talent was discovered. Her ability to talk to people, her empathy toward others and to put them at ease was evident. This discovery lead Oprah to her next major career move. Oprah Winfrey moved to Chicago in 1984 to host a morning talk show at WLS-TV called A.M. Chicago. The show was not receiving high ratings and within a month of Oprah as the new host, the show became the number one talk show in the Chicago area. By 1985 the show was renamed the "Oprah Winfrey Show." It began showing nationally in 1986 and became the number one talk show in national syndication in less than one year. By 1987 the "Oprah Winfrey Show" received three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Host, Outstanding Talk/Service Program and Outstanding Direction. The show received another Daytime Emmy Award the next year for Outstanding Talk/Service Program. Oprah also received the International Radio and Television Society's "Broadcaster of the Year" Award the same year. It is also in 1985 that Oprah makes her acting debut as Sophia in the movie, "The Color Purple." She received Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for that role. Oprah also received great reviews for her performance in "Native Son" the following year. Her love for acting and quality projects inspired her to form her own production company she named HARPO Productions, Inc. In 1988, her production company acquired ownership and the production rights for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" from Capitol Cities/ABC, making Oprah the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show. As an abused child herself, Oprah started a campaign in 1991 to start a national database of convicted child abusers. She testified before a Senate Committee for the National Child Protection Act and President Bill Clinton signed what is known as the "Oprah Bill" in 1993. This is the database that is now used and available in the United States to trace convicted child abusers. Oprah Winfrey's awards are so numerous and her successes seem to keep flowing from this remarkable woman. In 1998 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She also receives the People's Choice Award the same year for Favorite Female TV Performer and her ninth Emmy for the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also becomes a cofounder of the Oxygen Media the same year and is named one of the most influential people of the 20th Century by Time Magazine. In 1999, Oprah Winfrey received the National Book Foundation's 50th Anniversary Gold Medal. She received this award due to helping so many authors through her book club. This same year her website, Oprah.com launches a new design as a woman's lifestyle website. It has her talk show coverage as well as advice on numerous women's issues. Oprah magazine, "O, The Oprah Magazine" makes its debut in 2000 and is a big success. After winning forty Emmy awards, The Oprah Winfrey Show removes itself voluntarily from winning any more Emmy's. Oprah is conducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in the year 2002. She also wins the first Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for her endless efforts to help others, both here in the United States and abroad. She starts work on her project this same year to open the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for girls in South Africa and her production company, HARPO Productions, Inc. created the Dr. Phil Show. Oprah's new unscripted show starts on the Oxygen Network in 2002. This show is titled "Oprah After the Show." Oprah's Book Club is the largest book club in the world through Oprah.com and received the Association of American Publishers' AAP Honors Award in 2003. This is given to anyone not in the publishing industry for their outstanding achievement to help promote American books and authors. In the year 2005, Oprah is listed as number one on the Forbes Power Celebrity 100 List. Oprah's website also exceeds one hundred million page views for website traffic. It is also in this same year that Oprah Winfrey opened her book club to all books to have a chance of making her book list. If a book makes the Oprah's book list, it is certain to become a success. After all, books are one of the most important things to her. Education is her priority and she is passionate about books. Oprah Winfrey believes in the power of books to transform a child's life. She said she knew when she was a child about a better life because she had read about it. Oprah believes that helping others and giving should never stop. It should be a way of life and you should always touch the lives of others. If this is the meaning of success, then Oprah Winfrey has achieved the ultimate success. |
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