Rosie odonnell biography imdb

O'Donnell cited a Florynce Kennedy quote, "If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament " and asked rhetorically "How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic? On December 5, , O'Donnell used a series of ching chongs to imitate newscasters in China. I was like, really? I didn't know that. Only 'cause it's how my brain works. In December , O'Donnell criticized Donald Trump for holding a press conference to reinstate Miss USA Tara Conner , who had violated pageant guidelines, accusing him of using her scandal to "generate publicity for the Miss USA Pageant " to which he owns the rights by announcing he was giving her a second chance.

She stated, "Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair — but he's the moral compass for year-olds in America. Sometimes I get flooded. On April 25, , ABC announced that O'Donnell would be leaving the show before the end of the year because of a failure to reach agreement on a new contract. O'Donnell condemned many of the Bush administration's policies, especially the war in Iraq and the resulting occupation.

This led to a series of heated exchanges with co-host Hasselbeck, as well as "the most-discussed moment of her professional life. Who are the terrorists? It didn't really ring true for me. O'Donnell felt that the show's director and producer "had to prepare that in advance I felt there was setup egging me into that position. The executive producer and I did not gel.

In May , Time magazine included O'Donnell in their annual list of the most influential people. Jenny McCarthy appeared once briefly, as has Hasselbeck's mother-in-law and O'Donnell's mother-in-law, her now ex-wife Kelli's mother. Kathy Griffin also appeared, where she read some of the questions. It became so popular that O'Donnell and her creative team considered an "on the road" version of the video blog using fan-submitted suggestions.

O'Donnell was the front runner for the "best celebrity blogger" category in the Blogger's Choice Awards which she won. Barker was a frequent guest on her talk show and told reporters that she "would make a fine host. In , O'Donnell starred in and executive produced America , a Lifetime channel film in which she plays the therapist of the title character, a year-old boy aging out of the foster care system.

The film is based on the E. Frank book of the same name. The show debuted on October 10, , to generally positive reviews. The final show aired on OWN on March 29, In a statement, Oprah Winfrey said:. I thank Rosie from the bottom of my heart for joining me on this journey. She has been an incredible partner, working to deliver the best possible show every single day.

As I have learned in the last 15 months, a new network launch is always a challenge and ratings grow over time as you continue to gather an audience. I'm grateful to Rosie and the dedicated Rosie Show team for giving it their all. I loved working with Oprah in the amazing city of Chicago. I was welcomed with open arms and will never forget the kindness of all I encountered.

It was a great year for me—I wish the show was able to attract more viewers—but it did not. So I am headed back to my home in New York—with gratitude. On we go! In , O'Donnell made another guest appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm , competing for the affection of a bisexual woman with Larry in an episode called " The Bi-Sexual ". In , O'Donnell appeared in a number of television shows.

In , O'Donnell landed a reoccurring role as Rita Hendricks on The Fosters , "a tough yet compassionate woman who works for the foster care system and becomes a mentor to a member of the Foster family. In the fall of , O'Donnell returned to The View as a co-host, with a newly re-vamped version of the show, along with Whoopi Goldberg returning as moderator and new co-hosts Rosie Perez and Nicolle Wallace.

In a statement, made to The Hollywood Reporter , O'Donnell said, "[My health] got a little bit worse right before the holidays — [my doctor] was kind of concerned. I can't really fix [my personal life] right away, but I can fix [my job]. Deadline called the cameo "a bit that already seems dated. In April , Roseanne For President!

O'Donnell appeared in the documentary to help "bring his mother into focus" along with a number of other celebrities. On June 15, , it was announced that she would star as Detective Sunday, alongside Jon Bernthal, in a series reboot of American Gigolo on Showtime, premiering in Rosie covered issues including breast cancer, foster care, and other matters of concern to O'Donnell.

In the September issue, she shared that "she has struggled with depression her entire life" and decided to start medications when she realized her fears were affecting her family. Rosie magazine folded in In late , O'Donnell and the publishers each sued the other for breach of contract. The publishers said that, by removing herself from the magazine's publication, she was in breach of contract.

The trial received considerable press coverage. O'Donnell would often give brief press interviews outside of the courtroom responding to various allegations. Of note was a former magazine colleague and breast cancer survivor who testified that O'Donnell said to her on the phone that people who lie "get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again".

In April , O'Donnell released Find Me, a combination of memoir, mystery and detective story with an underlying interest in reuniting birth mothers with their children. The book reached number two on The New York Times bestseller list. In , O'Donnell and Carpenter partnered with travel entrepreneur Gregg Kaminsky to launch R Family Vacations catering to LGBT families, "the very first all gay and lesbian family vacation packages" where "gays and lesbians can bring their kids, their friends, and their parents.

Of the experience, O'Donnell stated "we didn't really realize the magic that was going to take place. People who had never met another gay family met other families and it was powerful. In late , O'Donnell brought the musical Taboo to Broadway. She hired Charles Busch to re-write the book , and the story became "bitchier" and more focused on the rise to fame of the character based on Boy George.

Over her career, O'Donnell has developed a reputation for raising funds and her own philanthropy to charitable causes. Rosie's Broadway Kids serves more than 4, teachers, students, and their family members at 21 schools. During the summer of , O'Donnell was a guest on the multi-artist True Colors Tour , which traveled through 15 cities in the United States and Canada.

O'Donnell was a resident of Nyack, New York , after the purchase in of "Pretty Penny", a Victorian river home that had previously served as the home of Helen Hayes. O'Donnell sold the home to businessman Edward M. Kopko in O'Donnell is a Democrat. On numerous occasions, O'Donnell has been outspoken about controversial topics. In , she announced her opinion concerning the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, , in which she questioned the NIST conclusions, and alleged the U.

I don't know why people make such a big deal about the gay thing. People are confused, they're shocked, like this is a big revelation to somebody. Although she also cited the need to put a face to gays and lesbians, her primary reason was to bring attention to LGBTQ adoption issues. She protested against adoption agencies, particularly in Florida, that refused adoptive rights to gay and lesbian parents.

She told Sawyer if that was done, "I would like to talk about my life and how the case pertains to me. State law wouldn't let them adopt because Florida banned gay or bisexual couples from adopting. I never said I wanted to blow him. O'Donnell told the press that her haircut was meant to mimic the haircut of former Culture Club backup singer Helen Terry.

O'Donnell was named 's Person of the Year by The Advocate , and in May she became a regular columnist for the magazine. Parker is an aficionado of military history and in successfully lobbied his mother to send him to Valley Forge Military Academy. On February 26, , O'Donnell married Carpenter, [ ] a former Nickelodeon marketing executive, in San Francisco two weeks after Mayor Gavin Newsom authorized the granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Her decision to go to San Francisco to marry Carpenter was seen as a show of defiance against then-President George W. Bush over his support for the Federal Marriage Amendment. She said in , "We were both inspired to come here after the sitting President made the vile and hateful comments he made I am now and will forever be a total proponent of gay marriage.

Carpenter and O'Donnell have four children together. In , the state of Florida removed Mia from their home, and O'Donnell has since worked extensively to bring an end to the Florida law prohibiting same-sex family adoption. In mid-November , O'Donnell disclosed that Carpenter had moved out of their home in Their marriage had ended in August when it was among the thousands voided by the California Supreme Court.

O'Donnell began dating year-old executive-search consultant Michelle Rounds in mid On December 5, , during a break in the taping of The Rosie Show , O'Donnell announced to her studio audience that she and Rounds were engaged. In August , O'Donnell tweeted that her year-old daughter, Chelsea, had gone missing from their Nyack, New York, home along with her therapy dog.

In September Chelsea was arrested in Marinette County, Wisconsin on charges involving child neglect, domestic abuse, maintaining a drug trafficking facility, possession of methamphetamine, illegally obtaining prescriptions and drug paraphernalia, and misdemeanor possession of THC after her 11 month old child was found in a house filled with crack pipes, feces and garbage.

In the summer of , O'Donnell suffered a staph infection after she accidentally cut the middle finger of her left hand with a knife while cutting a price tag off a fishing pole. Bush was to blame for the infection, saying that she was preparing to go on a fishing trip at the time to avoid seeing Bush on television during the then-ongoing Republican National Convention.

O'Donnell suffered a heart attack in mid-August She said an artery was 99 percent blocked and a stent was inserted. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read View source View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikidata item. American comedian and actress born This article is about the entertainer.

During filming, O'Donnell forged many connections and friendships which served to enhance her career, including an enduring relationship with co-star Madonna. Her role spawned a string of "best friend" parts: playing Meg Ryan 's closest pal in 's Sleepless in Seattle ; co-starring alongside Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez in Another Stakeout ; and making a memorable appearance across from Natalie Portman and Timothy Hutton as the wise-cracking hairdresser in Beautiful Girls O'Donnell began a trend of making praiseworthy performances in less-than-extraordinary films.

In , O'Donnell's dream of performing live on stage materialized when she was cast as Rizzo in Tommy Tune's Broadway revival of Grease! However, both the production and O'Donnell's performance met lukewarm reviews. O'Donnell also expressed concern about the message of the play, with its sexist premise about a girl who must transform herself into a tightly-clad vamp to gain acceptance from her boyfriend and his friends.

She also made a cameo on the television sitcom Bless This House. In February , after a two-year hiatus, O'Donnell returned briefly to stand-up in order to prepare for an HBO comedy special. Inspired by The Merv Griffin Show , O'Donnell offered viewers a change of pace from the swarm of sensationalist talk shows commanding the airwaves. Warm and approachable, O'Donnell engaged in light-hearted interviews with celebrities and showcased Broadway performances on her program.

She's like everybody's sister," actor John Travolta told Entertainment Weekly. Moving to daytime television also made it easier for O'Donnell to continue to work in show business while raising her two adopted children, Parker and Chelsea Belle, in New York—producers even built a deluxe nursery for her children right in the Rockefeller Center studio.

The show quickly became one of the most popular in daytime television, and O'Donnell was hailed as the "Queen of Nice" due to her down-to-earth frankness and sense of humor. O'Donnell also continued to make occasional appearances in films as well; playing a nanny in the children's film Harriett the Spy and a schoolteacher-nun in 's Wide Awake.

She blossomed in the children's movie arena, playing the voice of Terk, Tarzan's gorilla companion, in Disney's animated production of Tarzan in Her continual support of Broadway shows, and theater in general, brought renewed attention to the stage, and the annual Tony Awards show enjoyed some of its highest ratings in years when she hosted.

In November , O'Donnell revealed plans to leave her talk show after her contract expiration in She told audiences that she hoped to focus more time on her nonprofit organization, which helped facilitate the process of adoption between birth mothers and adoptive families. She then made headlines for her personal life in early , with word that she would officially come out as a lesbian in her autobiography Find Me.

Part of her decision to come out was fueled by a desire to advocate on behalf of gay adoption. O'Donnell and her partner, Kelli Carpenter, had taken in a foster child from Florida whom they wished to adopt. Florida law, however, prohibited homosexuals from adopting. O'Donnell and her partner were unable to adopt their foster child, but they did add to their family later that year: In November, Carpenter gave birth to a baby girl, Vivienne Rose.

Rosie odonnell biography imdb

Also in , O'Donnell announced that she would no longer produce her namesake magazine after a little over a year on newsstands. In the midst of the media-heavy trial that ensued, she continued to produce her Broadway musical, Taboo , about the life of Boy George. However, after receiving negative reviews and publicity, the show closed just three months after it opened.

Carpenter changed her last name to O'Donnell, but their union was later annulled by a California court decision. Contents move to sidebar hide. Page Talk. Read Change Change source View history. Tools Tools. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell at the Tribeca Film Festival. These included Car 54, Where Are You?

Her popularity then rose again as she took roles in less commercially successful but highly acclaimed films like Now and Then, Beautiful Girls and the children's movie Harriet the Spy. In she was given her own daytime talk show, called, appropriately enough, The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Having all manner of entertainment performers on her show, she also brought on various charitable projects, earning millions of dollars for various charities.

Children's charities were a clear favorite of O'Donnell, and she began to adopt children to raise, eventually adopting four. During the late s she limited her movie appearances to cameos and children's films, although she appeared in several gay-themed films. This led to tabloid speculation that O'Donnell was actually a lesbian. In the year O'Donnell saved the near-bankrupt magazine McCall's by buying it and changing the name to Rosie.

Rather than cover the magazine with thin models and fill it with stories about how to be more beautiful, she opted for stories about depression, breast cancer and foster care. In this, she continued her tradition of standing up for what she believed in.