Whoopie Goldberg on The View
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Johnson in New
York City and spent the first years of her life in a public
housing project in Manhattan. She made her performing debut
at age eight with the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre
at the Hudson Guild. After dropping out of high school, she
found work as a summer camp counselor, and in the choruses
of the Broadway shows Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and Pippin.
In 1974, after a failed marriage, she moved to California
with her young daughter and, the following year, helped found
the San Diego Repertory Theatre and joined the improvisational
theater group Spontaneous Combustion. It was at this time
that she adopted her distinctive stage name and began to develop
the character monologues that were to make her famous. After
moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, she joined another improvisational
group, the Blake Street Hawkeyes, acquired a following for
her work as a stand-up comedian, and toured the U.S. and Europe
with her one-woman production, The Spook Show. Read more about
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