Oprah Winfrey

At the heart of everything Oprah Winfrey does, there is a consistent message – that individuals should take personal responsibility for their lives, and to improve the world.
Winfrey is the first african-american woman to own her own production company; a talented actress nominated for an academy award in her first movie; television’s highest-paid entertainer; producer and actress in her own television specials; and the successful host of a syndicated television talk show that reaches 15 million people a day. she does all that she can to eradicate child abuse. as a victim herself, Winfrey knows the damage abuse does to young lives, and she was a major force in the drafting, lobbying and passage of the national child protection act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1994.