Whoopi Goldberg

In August 2004, Goldberg announced that she would be reviving her one-woman show on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. Teen actress Emmy Rossum, who actually played Hepburn as a child in the Jennifer Love Hewitt bio-pic, is also considered a candidate. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney by pointing to her genital region. Portman in fact once dressed as Hepburn for a modelling photo shoot, while Tautou closely resembles Hepburn physically. In July 2004, Slim-Fast, a popular diet shake, dropped Goldberg from its advertisements in response to popular opposition to statements Goldberg made at a "John Kerry for President" rally in which Goldberg repeatedly referred to President George W. A number of current actresses have been suggested by fans as acceptable choices should another attempt at a bio-pic be made. Among names most often mentioned are Natalie Portman and Audrey Tautou. The sitcom was cancelled due to low ratings in May 2004. It was aired as a mini-series in some countries, and in a truncated version on American TV.

An ex-singer in a girl group, Mavis was as much of a diva running the hotel as she was in the group’s glory days. The film is generally seen as a disappointment, with most of the criticism being directed at the casting of Hewitt in the role, though footage of the real Audrey Hepburn appears at the very end of the picture. Several versions of the film exist. Whoopi starred as Mavis Rae, the owner of a small New York Hotel (called the Le Mont Hotel). Hewitt also produced the film. She also starred in the sitcom, Whoopi, which began broadcasting in fall 2003 on NBC. The 2000 American made for television effort, The Audrey Hepburn Story starred Jennifer Love Hewitt as the actress. She hosted a syndicated talk show (The Whoopi Goldberg Show) in 1992-1993. To date only one biographical film based upon Audrey Hepburn's life has been attempted.

Goldberg was paired with Jean Stapleton in the CBS sitcom Bagdad Café (with a plot differing from the 1987 movie in several respects), which lasted two seasons (1990-1991). Some sources state that Hepburn makes a cameo appearance in the 1963 Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward film, A New Kind of Love but this has not been confirmed. She also hosted the Oscars in 1999. She also appeared in an April 1952 episode of CBS Television Workshop entitled "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction" which predates her "official" American debut in Roman Holiday. According to some biographies, Hepburn claimed to have made "several" American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday, and a poster for a 1951 British public appearance listed her as a TV actress, but so far a copy of "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced. In 2001 she won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In addition to the above, Hepburn hosted the 1993 television series, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for PBS, a nine-episode documentary series which premiered the day of her death. She has been nominated for five American Comedy Awards with two wins. Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there.

In 1999 she received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community. At the time of her death she was the companion of Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor who was the widower of film star Merle Oberon. She has received three Golden Globe nominations, winning two. She has won three People's Choice Awards. Hepburn married twice, to actor Mel Ferrer and to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti, and had two sons. She has received five Emmy nominations. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street. She has received five Daytime Emmy nominations, winning one. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity, and her son accepted the award shortly after her death.

She has received two Oscar nominations and won one. In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. Goldberg has appeared in 149 films as of October 2002. Grateful for her own good fortune after being a victim of Nazi atrocities as a child, she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the world's poorest nations. She cemented her status as a legendary comedic actress in 1992 as a lounge singer who is hidden in a convent (and consequently revitalises their choir) in Sister Act. She had a recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan. From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally and her last role was filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). In danger of fading from public acclaim, she revitalized her career in the role of a fake "spiritualist" who manages to actually make contact with the dead in the tear-jerker Ghost, for which she won her first Oscar award for best supporting actress. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, Hepburn co-starred with other major actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery.

The majority of the films she made in the 1980s featured her in tough-woman comedic roles (Burglar, Fatal Beauty, Jumpin' Jack Flash), though she regularly balanced them out by performing in family-oriented films (Clara's Heart). Her performance as Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's resulted in the creation of one of the most iconic characters in 20th Century American cinema. She followed up this performance with a sell-out, highly acclaimed one-woman show on Broadway. In the film Funny Face, Hepburn's mother appeared as the patron of a sidewalk café. This performance garnered her an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1986. For her performance in this movie she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and over her illustrious career she would be nominated for best actress four more times. Goldberg began her film career by playing the character of Celie in the Steven Spielberg directed movie adaption of the award-winning novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. After being chosen to play the lead character in the Broadway play Gigi (opened on November 24, 1951), and after a successful six-month run in New York, she was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture Roman Holiday, co-starring Gregory Peck.

This show caught the attention of Mike Nichols who produced a one-woman show for Goldberg on Broadway, called simply Whoopi Goldberg, which ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985 for a total of 156 performances. After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People. After success as a stand up comedian in the San Francisco Bay Area, Goldberg created a one woman show in 1983 called The Spook Show. Without heat in their homes, or food to eat, people in the Netherlands starved and froze to death in the streets; particularly so in Arnhem, which was devastated during Operation Market Garden. Suffering from malnutrition, Hepburn developed several health problems, and the impact of those times would shape her life and values. She was born in New York, New York. During the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, brutality increased and the Nazis confiscated the Dutch people's limited food and fuel supply for themselves. Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage name of Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955), is a well-known movie actress, comedian and singer. After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers.

[1] (http://www.genealogics.org/histories/9396.text.jpg). It was never her legal name. At that time she adopted the pseudonym Edda Van Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents to do so, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous. Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.

She had two half-brothers, Alexander, and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress.

Hepburn is considered by many in Japan as a model for feminine beauty. Despite the similar career choices, Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn were neither sisters nor even closely related in any way despite occasional, and mistaken, press reports to the contrary. Opera diva Maria Callas reportedly loved Hepburn's look so much that she adopted it for herself in the 1950s. Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) - bit role; also known as Dutch in Seven Lessons.

Laughter in Paradise (1951) - bit role. One Wild Oat (1951) - bit role. Young Wives' Tale (1951) - bit role. Monte Carlo Baby (1951) - two versions of this film were released, one in English and one in French.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - bit role. The Secret People (1952). Roman Holiday (1953). Sabrina (1954).

War and Peace (1956). Funny Face (1957). Mayerling (1957) - produced as an episode of the TV series Producers' Showcase and released to theatres in Europe. Love in the Afternoon (1957).

The Nun's Story (1959). Green Mansions (1959). The Unforgiven (1960). Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

The Children's Hour (1961). Charade (1963). Paris - When it Sizzles (1964). My Fair Lady (1964).

How to Steal A Million (1966). Two for the Road (1967). Wait Until Dark (1967). Robin and Marian (1976).

Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (1979). They All Laughed (1981). Love Among Thieves (1987) - made for television. Always (1989).