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Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her TV show "Oprah."
Orpah Gail Winfrey was born on 29 January, 1950 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She is the daughter of Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee.
Oprah's name: "My name had been chosen from the Bible. My Aunt Ida had chosen the name, but nobody really knew how to spell it, so it went down as "Orpah" on my birth certificate, but people didn't know how to pronounce it, so they put the "P" before the "R" in every place else other than the birth certificate. On the birth certificate it is Orpah, but then it got translated to Oprah, so here we are."[1]
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Oprah Winfrey Shares Her Dad Has Died at Age 88 Following Illness: 'We Could Feel Peace Enter the Room', by Giovana Gelhoren, Sat, July 9, 2022 at 10:01 AM, Yahoo News citing People, at: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/oprah-winfrey-reveals-her-dad-170142761.html
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