Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author and philanthropist. She is best known for her Chicago-based talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is the highest-rated television show in history and which aired nationwide for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Nicknamed the "Queen of All Media," she is the richest African-American of the 20th century and the first black billionaire in North America, and she has been named a black philanthropist, the greatest in US history. United. In 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world. Winfrey was born poor in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother, then raised in downtown Milwaukee. She said she was sexually abused as a child and early teenager and became pregnant when she was 14; Her son was born prematurely and died very young.

From 1986 through 2011, she presented The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated program on air, and was named the most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine.