Oprah Gail Winfrey was Born in rural Mississippi to a poor unwed teenaged mother, and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She was raped at the age of nine, and at fourteen, gave birth to a son who died in infancy.
Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television. she was Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication. By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality.
Name: Oprah gail winfrey
Birth date: 29-01-1954
Birth place: Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States
Present Residence: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profession: Talk show host, media mogul
Propery Net worth: over US$2.5 billion (as of Sept. 2007)
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