The O Revolution

Oprah Winfrey has been one of the most influential women in the last 3 decades.


Born in 1954 in Mississippi.
She began her broadcasting career in Radio while still in high school. At the age of 19, she became a television anchor for local stations in Nashville then Baltimore. In the 1980s she broke through to Daytime Talk Show Hosting.


In 1985, she had her debut acting role as Sofia in The Color Purple.


In 1988, she started HarpO studios which have produced movies like The Great Debaters. In 2000, She began the philanthropic Oprah's Angel Network the the O Magazine. She retired from daytime talk show in March of 2011 after she started her own television network - OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.


She is the richest "self made" woman and is said to be "the most powerful women in the world."