奥普拉英语介绍

中文名： 奥普拉温弗里 外文名： Oprah Winfrey 国籍： 美国 出生地： 密西西比州科修斯科 出生日期： 1954年1月29日 职业： 企业家，电视节目主持人 毕业院校： 田纳西州立大学 代表作品： 《奥普拉·温芙瑞秀》 主要成就： 脱口秀

中文名： 奥普拉温弗里 外文名： Oprah Winfrey 国籍： 美国 出生地： 密西西比州科修斯科 出生日期： 1954年1月29日 职业： 企业家，电视节目主持人 毕业院校： 田纳西州立大学 代表作品： 《奥普拉·温芙瑞秀》 主要成就： 脱口秀 奥普拉（英文：Oprah 1954年1月29日－），生于密西西比州科修斯科，美国企业家和电视节目主持人。毕业于田纳西州立大学公演艺术及语音通讯学双学士学位。2007年获得霍华德大学荣誉博士学位。由于母亲不到20岁未婚就怀了她，奥普拉的童年过得相当清寒。她的出生证明上写的是奥帕（Orpah），取自《圣经·旧约全书》里《路得记》一卷里面的其中一位摩阿布族女人的名字，但是邻居们在读写她的名字时把其中的R和P调换了位置。最终奥普拉成了广泛接受的名字。根据2004年的福布斯杂志称，奥普拉·温芙瑞据信身家超过10亿美金。

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and an emotion-centered approach she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.