Oprah Winfrey - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Oprah Winfrey net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Producer and host of a television show that was named as the top powerful woman according to TIME magazine and hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the most highly-rated syndicated show in the air between 1986 and 2011. In this article, we will discover how old is Oprah Winfrey? Who is Oprah Winfrey dating now & how much money does Oprah Winfrey have?

Oprah Winfrey Biography

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States. Her appearance gave the debut of She introduced Mehmet Oz to countless viewers on The Oprah Winfrey Show. to many viewers of”The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Born Oprah Gail Winfrey, her first name was spelled Orpah (not Oprah) on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and “Oprah” stuck. She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to an unmarried teenage mother. Her mother, Vernita Lee (1935–2018), was a housemaid. Winfrey’s biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey (born c. 1933), a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman who had been in the Armed Forces when she was born. However, Mississippi farmer and World War II Veteran Noah Robinson Sr. (born c. 1925) has claimed to be her biological father.

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America’s first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.

She started a relationship to Stedman Graham in the year 1986.

She became the first black female billionaire, and also the most successful self-made American woman. Her net worth was more than $2 billion in 2013.

After Winfrey’s birth, her mother traveled north, and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley) Lee (April 15, 1900 – February 27, 1963). Her grandmother was so poor that Winfrey often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which other children made fun of her. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed “The Preacher” for her ability to recite Bible verses. When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother was reportedly abusive.

Oprah Winfrey Net Worth

Oprah is one of the richest TV Show Host from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oprah Winfrey's net worth $3.5 Billion. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

She was raped when she was nine. Then, when she was 14 years old she gave birth to an unborn baby who did not survive. She was named Miss Black Tennessee while in college. She began co-anchoring the news at night when she turned nineteen.

In 1971, several months after breaking up with Otey, Winfrey met William “Bubba” Taylor at Tennessee State University. According to CBS journalist George Mair, Taylor was Winfrey’s “first intense, to die for love affair”. Winfrey helped get Taylor a job at WVOL, and according to Mair, “did everything to keep him, including literally begging him on her knees to stay with her.” Taylor, however, was unwilling to leave Nashville with Winfrey when she moved to Baltimore to work at WJZ-TV in June 1976. “We really did care for each other”, Winfrey would later recall. “We shared a deep love. A love I will never forget.”

Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville’s WLAC-TV. In 1976, she moved to Baltimore’s WJZ-TV to co-anchor the six o’clock news. In 1977, she was removed as co-anchor and worked in lower profile positions at the station. She was then recruited to join Richard Sher as co-host of WJZ’s local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 14, 1978. She also hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

Many peoples want to know what is Oprah Winfrey ethnicity, nationality, Ancestry & Race? Let's check it out! As per public resource, IMDb & Wikipedia, Oprah Winfrey's ethnicity is Black. We will update Oprah Winfrey's religion & political views in this article. Please check the article again after few days.

In the 1970s, Winfrey had a romantic relationship with John Tesh. Biographer Kitty Kelley claims that Tesh split with Winfrey over the pressure of having an interracial relationship.

Who is Oprah Winfrey Dating?

According to our records, Oprah Winfrey is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Oprah Winfrey’s is not dating anyone.

Also, in the mid-1980s, Winfrey briefly dated movie critic Roger Ebert, whom she credits with advising her to take her show into syndication.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Oprah Winfrey height 5 ft 6 in Oprah weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

By 1962, Lee was having difficulty raising both daughters, so Winfrey was temporarily sent to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee. While Winfrey was in Nashville, Lee gave birth to a third daughter who was put up for adoption in the hopes of easing the financial straits that had led to Lee’s being on welfare, and was later also named Patricia. Winfrey did not learn she had a second half-sister until 2010. By the time Winfrey moved back with her mother, Lee had also given birth to Winfrey’s half-brother Jeffrey, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989.

According to Mair, when Kramer moved to NBC in New York, Winfrey had a love affair with a married man who had no intention of leaving his wife. Winfrey would later recall: “I’d had a relationship with a man for four years. I wasn’t living with him. I’d never lived with anyone—and I thought I was worthless without him. The more he rejected me, the more I wanted him. I felt depleted, powerless. At the end, I was down on the floor on my knees groveling and pleading with him”. Winfrey became so depressed that on September 8, 1981, she wrote a suicide note to best friend Gayle King instructing King to water her plants. “That suicide note had been much overplayed” Winfrey told Ms. magazine. “I couldn’t kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it, something really good would happen and I’d miss it.”

Facts & Trivia

Oprah Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Oprah Winfrey celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.

In 1983, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV’s low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest-rated talk show in Chicago. The movie critic Roger Ebert persuaded her to sign a syndication deal with King World. Ebert predicted that she would generate 40 times as much revenue as his television show, At the Movies. It was then renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show and expanded to a full hour. The first episode was broadcast nationwide on September 8, 1986. Winfrey’s syndicated show brought in double Donahue’s national audience, displacing Donahue as the number-one daytime talk show in America. Their much-publicized contest was the subject of enormous scrutiny. TIME magazine wrote:

Did Oprah have a child at 14?

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teenage years and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy.

How did Oprah Winfrey get rich?

With her continued success in the 21st century, Winfrey became a billionaire. She co-produced a Broadway musical version of The Color Purple, created the Oprah.com website, and launched a 24-hour channel called Oprah Radio on XM Satellite Radio.

What religion is Oprah?

Winfrey sees herself as both both a Christian and a critic of Christianity, says Lofton. She was raised in the Baptist church, describes herself as a consistent reader of the Bible, and through her television show, basically built the church that she wanted.

How is Oprah a billionaire?

How much does Oprah make a year? Winfrey’s annual salary from her endless media ventures is estimated at $315 million from when she was still filming her talk show. Since then, her annual income has varied depending on her projects and releases, with Forbes reporting that she made $37 million in 2019.

Why did Oprah never marry?

I realized I didn’t actually want a marriage. I wanted to be asked,” Winfrey wrote. “I wanted to know he felt I was worthy of being his missus, but I didn’t want the sacrifices, the compromises, the day-in-day-out commitment required to make a marriage work. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it.”

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