Neither of them answered your question but Whoopi was a standup comic and successful actress in the 80s and 90s, most millennials probably know her from being in a few Nickelodeon movies as she tended towards “family friendly” fare as she got older. She’s been on The View since 2007 (!!) and still appears in movies. I haven’t watched any of them so no comment on quality but her stardom is definitely much dimmer than it once was, since she’s now in the “direct to streaming” tier of fame.

If I remember correctly, she isn’t Jewish but took on the name Goldberg to sound more Jewish lol

She has stated that her stage forename (“Whoopi”) was taken from a whoopee cushion: “When you’re performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So people used to say to me, ‘You’re like a whoopee cushion.’ And that’s where the name came from.”

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, “My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it’s part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black,” and “I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.”[17] She has stated that “people would say ‘Come on, are you Jewish?’ And I always say ‘Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.’”[17] One account suggests that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family’s original surname was “not Jewish enough” for her daughter to become a star.[17] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg’s traceable ancestors were black, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.

She’s a talk show host mainly these days alongside with John McCain’s daughter

She changed her name to sound more Jewish and thus give her career a better shot in Hollywood. No, really.