American talk show host, television producer, actor, author, and philanthropist Oprah Gail Winfrey is also known by her stage name, Oprah. She is most known for her Chicago-based chat show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired from 1986 to 2011 and had the highest ratings of any program of its kind in television history. She was known as the "Queen of All Media," the richest African-American of the 20th century, the first and only black billionaire in history, and the most influential black philanthropist in American history. She was occasionally rated as the most powerful woman in the world in 2007.
