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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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