Oprah Winfrey is most interested in concentrating on those topics that can actually help people improve their lives--shows on battered women and alcoholism, for example, or on building relationships with family members. This will both increase the power of the show and make people feel better about their lives.
With productions ranging from made-for-TV movies and miniseries, to feature films and books, a magazine, videotapes, and CDs, Winfrey's reign as the Queen of Entertainment has extended almost from the inception of the company, winning both her and her company and show numerous awards.
Oprah Winfrey, the woman who would realize enormous success as the founder of entertainment giant Harpo Inc. The story of her success includes overcoming incredible odds with a singular determination that inspires her audience. Born in to teenage parents in Mississippi, Winfrey lived in terrible poverty on her grandmother's farm before moving to Milwaukee at age six to live with her mother.
There, she was sexually abused by male relatives, and at the age of 14, Winfrey gave birth to a premature baby, who died shortly afterwards. After running away and being kicked out of a juvenile detention home because all the beds were filled, she was finally sent to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey. A barber and businessman, Vernon provided the discipline that was lacking in his daughter's life, instituting a strict curfew and stressing the value of education.
Under his guidance, Oprah quickly changed her life's direction. In , at the age of 19, Winfrey was hired as a reporter by WVOL, a radio station in Nashville, and her broadcasting career was off and running. Two years later, she became, in addition to her duties as reporter and anchor, the host of that station's program "People Are Talking. One month after Winfrey became the host, the program had become the number one show in the city, and the producers gave Winfrey an extra half-hour for the show.
Her poignant performance and her first-ever acting experience as Sofia would win her a nomination for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, she would costar with Matt Dillon in Native Son, the second movie adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel. Winfrey's love for the screen and her desire to bring quality entertainment projects into production were what prompted her to form her own production company, Harpo Productions, Inc.
Early that year, Jacobs managed to buy the syndication rights to the show and began distributing it through King World Productions.
Less than a year later, the program was ranked the top syndicated talk show in the United States, pushing out longtime leader "Donahue. The show would remain the number one talk show for 12 consecutive seasons, receiving a total of 32 Emmys, seven of which went to the host.
Also in Winfrey received the International Radio and Television Society's "Broadcaster of the Year" Award, making her the youngest person and only the fifth woman ever to receive the honor. Harpo's first co-produced project was The Women of Brewster Place, a film released in , in which Winfrey costarred with Paul Winfield, Robin Givens, and Moses Gunn, which recounted the lives of the female denizens of an inner-city brownstone, adapted from the Gloria Naylor novel.
The film would later inspire a television miniseries of the same name. Other productions, such as Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane's autobiography of growing up under apartheid in South Africa, followed, as well as the feature film Beloved, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. The closure of Harpo, which had produced more than hours of original programming exclusively for OWN, will impact roughly employees, who will remain employed through December.
See more The Resurgence of Oprah Winfrey. The drama will chronicle a spirited woman who leaves her upscale Los Angeles lifestyle behind to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father — an acre sugarcane farm in the heart of Louisiana.
Once a shooting schedule for Queen is set, Winfrey will be able to figure out what more she can — and cannot — do as an actor. Without rattling off titles, Winfrey reveals that she will be heading to New York in the next couple of weeks to take a closer look at two other potential plays.
Among the other things still on her to-do list: more scripted programming at the network. At OWN, Queen Sugar will join a quartet of Tyler Perry -scripted series — all of which recently secured additional episode orders — as well as the upcoming two-night Octavia Spencer- led miniseries, Tulsa , already in development.
Harpo Oprah spelled backward is the owner of Harpo Productions , its sole subsidiary. The company also operated Harpo Films and Harpo Radio but shut down the ventures in and respectively. Oprah is also an investor in True Food Kitchen , a health food restaurant chain founded by author Andrew Weil. She reportedly holds a significant equity investment in the chain, which has at least 42 locations from coast to coast. Apeel Sciences is a startup that has created edible coating made from plant materials that can make fruit last two to three times as long to help drastically reduce food waste.
Oprah was one of the high-profile media executives that founded Oxygen Media in Waywire was sold to video distributor Magnify in a mostly-stock deal in
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