![]() He grew up around the 21st Avenue neighborhood. View Gallery: Photos: Mark Ruffalo's career in movies, TV and theaterĪward-winning actor and activist Mark Ruffalo is a Kenosha native. But on Christmas Eve, nuns brought food and toys for Winfrey and her siblings. Her mother, the late Vernita Lee, who was working as a housemaid in suburban Fox Point, told Winfrey that Santa Claus was not coming that year because the single mother didn't have much money to buy presents. Winfrey - born in Mississippi as Orpah Gail Winfrey - once said her best Christmas ever was in Milwaukee when she was 12 and living on North 10th Street. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. Winfrey opened a school for underprivileged girls in South Africa in 2007. ![]() Her acting credits include "The Color Purple," "A Wrinkle in Time," "Lee Daniels' The Butler" and "Selma," among many others. Oprah runs her own TV network, magazine and production company, the report said. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" - the highest-rated talk show in TV history - ran for 4,561 episodes over 25 years and Winfrey won 16 Daytime Emmy Awards, according to a USA Today report. Legendary talk show host, producer, actress and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey was raised in Milwaukee, attending Lincoln High School and Nicolet High School (she finished high school in Nashville, where her dad lived). ![]()
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