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'The Color Purple'
Oprah Winfrey's first big-screen role was that of Sofia in 1985's The Color Purple.
"Doing the film was the most important thing that had ever happened to me and continues to be a central theme in my life," she told PEOPLE in 2023. "It's as big a miracle as my whole life has been, because I didn’t know one single soul in the business."
She added that the job "is the reason I ended up owning my own show, why I learned to surrender, do the hardest work and then let that work go.
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The Color Purple is why I created the culture at my company Harpo that I did, because I had seen at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin that you can own your own studio [and] make a family of your work," she continued.
"That movie was a spiritual grounding for me."
Recently, Winfrey served as a producer on the 2023 version of the film.