Oprah Winfrey is a millionaire philanthropist, talk show presenter, media executive, and actress. She is best known as the host of her own massively famous show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired for 25 seasons between 1986 and 2011. Winfrey created her own television network, the Oprah Winfrey Network, in 2011. (OWN).

Winfrey was born in the remote village of Kosciusko, Mississippi, and went to Baltimore in 1976 to host People Are Talking. She was then hired by a Chicago television station to headline her own morning show.

Are Oprah Winfrey parents still alive?

Both parents are dead.

Oprah spent her early life in Kosciusko, Mississippi, with her father, then in Milwaukee with her mother, Vernita Lee, who died in 2018.

She did, however, reside in Nashville with her father between the ages of 7 and 9, as well as during her adolescence.

Her father, Vernon Oprah died in 2022

For three years in a row, Forbes magazine named Winfrey the richest African American of the twentieth century and the world’s sole Black billionaire. Life magazine named her the most powerful woman of her generation.

Winfrey was the inaugural winner of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in September 2002.

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