Whoopi Goldberg random trivia

Once worked in a mortuary where her job was applying makeup to corpses. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37. Dropped out of high school and became addicted to heroin. She ended up marrying her drug counselor. She cleaned up and later divorced him. In 1974 she moved to California and helped found the San Diego Repertory Company, where she used the name, Whoopi Cushion. Before making it as an actress, she worked as a bank teller, a bricklayer and in a mortuary.