Whoopi Goldberg first appeared on screen during the years 1981 and 1982 in: Citizen: I'm not losing my mind, I'm giving it away. This was a film about a group of young people who were embarking on a random journey throughout the city of San Francisco. It was also about the people they met on the journey.
Whoopi Goldberg rose to fame in the 1980s in two films.One was Ghost,where she plays a psychic helping a murder victim,find his the Color Purple,she played a mistreated woman.