Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey founded Harpo Productions in 1986 and took ownership of The Oprah Winfrey Show, becoming one of the first Black women to own a major production company. Harpo went on to produce films such as Beloved and Selma and television including Queen Sugar, and in 2011 she launched her own cable network, OWN, which had a difficult first few years before finding its audience.