Whoopi Goldberg is a comedian.
On stage, Goldberg has starred in the Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
"About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my nameit's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black," and "I just know I am Jewish

