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Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States. She was then raised on a farm by her grandmother.
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She moved from Milwaukee to live with her mother. She later revealed that she suffered from abuse and had been raped by her cousin, uncle, and family friend.
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Oprah ran away from home, where she then gave birth to a boy who died just after being born. She then moved to Nashville with her father and stepmother.
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After graduating with honors from East Nashville High School, she won a scholarship to Tennesse State University, where she attended the school as well as working at a local radio station.
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Graduated from Tennesse State University with a degree in speech and performing arts, and went on to become the first black TV news anchor reporter with WTVF-TV.
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became a reporter for an ABC news affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland.
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She moved to Chicago, Illinois to host the talk show A.M. Chicago. The first episode of the show was very successful in the ratings.
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Starred in the Steven Spielberg movie 'The Color Purple' as the character Sofia
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The Oprah Winfrey show expanded to one hour and was broadcasted nationally. At this point she starred in several movies and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost.
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Won her first Emmy for best talk/service show host, she was named Broadcaster of the Year by International Television and Radio Society, and appeared in TV program Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special as herself.
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Her brother Jeffrey Lee died of AIDS.
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She hosted an interview with Michael Jackson which reached an audience of one hundred million.
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Oprah won an Emmy for Best Talk Show and Best Host for the second year in a row.
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Named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the year, and also named as the greatest woman in American history as part of a public poll as part of The Greatest American in which she ranked in 9th place in the list of greatest Americans.
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She signed a 3-year contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel based in Chicago
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Oprah Winfrey currently owns a house in New Jersey, an apartment in Chicago, an estate on Fisher Island, Florida, a ski house in Telluride, Colorado, and property on Maui, Hawaii and Antigua.
However, her show is filmed in Chicago so that is where she spends a lot of her time.
