“The Color Purple” is one of those iconic movies that created Hollywood A-listers and stars.

“There was another movie was it ‘Mask’?

Period,” Winfrey told theLA Times.

Oprah Winfrey

This didn’t mean she knew what to do on a film set.

Steven asked, ‘Why are looking into the camera?"

I had been on TV since I was 19 and that’s what you do.

Oprah Winfrey

You look at the camera.

Anyway, I learned.

But I’ve never stopped being intimidated."

Oprah Winfrey

(via LA Times).

As of 2020, she had a net worth of $2.7 billion, according toInsider.

Winfrey started her production empire with Harpo Studios, which produced her long-running talk show.

According toBiography, she closed Harp in 2015 to merge it with OWN’s production studios.

Winfrey has also struggled with her weight through the decades and added to her fortune viaWeight Watchers.