1954-
Actress and Talk Show Host

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Time named Oprah Winfrey one of the most important people of the twentieth century, and in 1998 Entertainment Weekly ranked her first in its annual list of the most influential people in Hollywood. In 1997 Newsweek named her the most important person in books and media, and TV Guide called her the television performer of the year. She received the George Foster Peabody Individual Achievement Award and the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) Gold Medal Award in 1996, as well as the National Academy of Television Arts and Science's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. She has won seven Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show Host and nine Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show. The first African American woman to own her own production studio, Winfrey revolutionized television talk shows. Since her show began in syndication in 1986, it remained the number one...