| Name : | Oprah Winfrey |
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| Birth Name : | Oprah Gail Winfrey |
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| Profession : | Producer, Actress, Soundtrack, Taklshow host, Author |
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| Date of Birth : | January 29, 1954 |
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| Place of Birth : | Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA |
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| Height : | 5' 6˝'' |
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| Claim to fame : | Host of The Oprah Winfrey Show |
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Arguably the most influential person on TV (and definitely the richest), talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, despite the fabulous life she leads as one of the more powerful women in the world, still somehow makes her millions of fans feel she's an icon they can get down with, a girlfriend to the nation. Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match, combining compassion, vulnerability and an unashamed expression of emotion to become not only the nation's most popular talk show host, but a cultural taste maker, a force to be reckoned with in her medium and time as Walter Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Walter Cronkite were in theirs. In the words of one television industry analyst, "The rest of the talk shows are just tissue....
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