Whoopi Goldberg
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Color Purple, The (The Colour Purple) (1985)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover…
- Striking interpretation of Alice Walker's novel about a black girl's life and hard times in the South, spanning forty years. Whoopi Goldberg's screen…
- Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane…
- Amiable escapade with trouble aplenty for Goldberg after she starts receiving S.O.S messages from a British spy trapped in Soviet Russia. When she…
- Fatal Beauty (1987)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades
- Whoopi Goldberg stars in this action–comedy thriller as a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Clearly modelled after the BEVERLY…
- Whoopi Goldberg - Fontaine... Why am I Straight? (1988)
- Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Comedienne Whoopi Goldberg performs live, concentrating on the Fontaine persona – a streetwise dude – she first brought to light in an…
- Clara's Heart (1988)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Whoopi Goldberg plays housemaid to various insufferable yuppies.
- Ghost (1990)
- Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg
- Technically brilliant amalgam of fantasy, thriller, comedy and love story is entertainment Hollywood wish they could make more often.
- Soapdish (1991)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field…
- Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field and Robert Downey Jnr. grace this malicious and frantic farce about life on and behind the set of a daytime…
- Long Walk Home, The (1991)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg
- Set in 1955 Alabama during the civil rights bus boycott, this portrays the impact of change on two families, with Sissy Spacek as an uppercrust…
- Sister Act (1992)
- Dir. Emile Ardolino
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Whoopi Goldberg cavorts in a convent to evade the nasty boys after witnessing a gangland murder. Good–natured…
- Player, The (1992)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg…
- A glittering Tinseltown satire that manages to be an intricate, clever, surprising and entertaining thriller all at the same time, with a cast of…
- Made in America (1993)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson
- Whoopi Goldberg is shocked to discover the 'sperm–donor' father of her daughter is in fact brash, white cowpoke Ted Danson.
- Sarafina! (1993)
- Dir. Darrell James Roodt
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Screen version of the anti–apartheid stage musical posits Whoopi Goldberg as a Soweto school–teacher who liberates an impressionable…
- Corrina Corrina (1994)
- Dir. Jessie Nelson
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta, Tina Majorino…
- Housekeeper Goldberg endears herself into the household of single parent Liotta and his nine–year–old daughter in a warm–hearted,…
- Boys On the Side (1995)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore
- Strangers hit the road together and share more in common than they expect. As disparate women–of–the–nineties the three stars keep…
- Star Trek - Generations (1995)
- Dir. David Carson
Feat. LeVar Burton, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan…
- Capt. Picard and crew get their big–screen debut but are forced to call on the spirit of predecessor Capt. Kirk to assist them in a struggle…
- Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
- Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner, Gwyneth Paltrow…
- Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner and Gwyneth Paltrow gather to console Elizabeth Perkins on the tragic death of her hubby. Enter house–painting…
- Celluloid Closet, The (1996)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. Stewart Stern, Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg…
- Fascinating doco revises the history of mainstream cinema from a gay and lesbian perspective, with an eye for discreet and…
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods…
- Thirty years after the fact, D.A. Alec Baldwin re–investigates the murder of a Mississippi civil rights leader. Fact–based…
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- Dir. Kevin Sullivan
Feat. Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg
- Career–women again undergo the midlife crisis, with all its romantic miscalculations in another adaptation from the pen of Terry McMillan…
- Rugrats - The Movie (1998)
- Dir. Norton Virgien, Igor Kovalyov
Feat. Elizabeth Daily, Whoopi Goldberg, David Spade…
- The babies–eye view of the TV sitcom is given a longer attention span, with Tommy Pickles, Anjelica and friends released from domestic…
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley…
- The creators of the MERLIN TV–series pull–off another updating, this time Lewis Carroll's childrens' classic. Seamless special effects…
- Deep End of the Ocean, The (1999)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg
- Playing on the fears of parents everywhere, this sober drama presents a nightmare scenario of child–kidnapping in suburban America, with…
- Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The (2000)
- Dir. Des McAnuff
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jason Alexander, Rene Russo…
- Cutting–edge technology combines animation with live action for this wacky cross–country romp adapted from a television show…
- Monkey Bone (2001)
- Dir. Henry Selick
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg
- Bizarre, original and at times downright nasty, this not–for–kids comedy concerns the life–and–death voyage of cartoonist…
- Rat Race (2002)
- Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson…
- A contemporary re–race of IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, wealthy John Cleese devising a money–scramble for $2 million among…
- Good Fences (2003)
- Dir. Ernest Dickerson
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Mo'Nique
- Instructive race–relations telemovie about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in the white, affluent suburb of…
- Aristocrats, The (2005)
- Dir. Paul Provenza
Feat. Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, Billy Connolly…
- One hundred venerable comedians perform, scrutinise and riff on a particularly dirty joke (touted as the world's most obscene), which has apparently…
- Comic Relief - The Greatest and the Latest (2006)
- Feat. Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal…
- Stand–up comedy collection of the greatest moments in 'Comic Relief' history, a comedy show featuring top comedians benefiting important causes…
- For Colored Girls (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf) (2010)
- Dir. Tyler Perry
Feat. Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose…
- Potent, if melodramatic, adaptation of the acclaimed play that has an extraordinarily diverse cast exploring the lives of nine black women through…
- Little Engine That Could, The (2011)
- Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- This timeless story comes to life in an all–new feature length animation. When Little Engine must leave Dreamland to deliver toys into the real…
- A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
- Dir. Nicole Kassell
Feat. Kate Hudson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosemarie DeWitt…
- Colon cancer–sufferer Kate Hudson falls in love with her doctor (Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal) in this hopelessly awkward romantic…
- Under African Skies (Paul Simon's Graceland Journey) (2012)
- Dir. Joe Berlinger
Feat. Paul Simon, Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte…
- Twenty–five years after the phenomenal success of 'Graceland', Paul Simon on his return to South Africa to reconnect with the musicians who…
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
- Dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Feat. Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner…
- Inexplicably, another mindless reboot of the ninja turtle franchise, only this time injected with all the crass and bombast of producer Michael Bay's…