Washington: Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Angelina Jolie have topped Forbes.com's list of Hollywood's 10 most generous entertainers, donating a collective $58 million over the last two years to various causes.
Citing numbers from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Forbes.com reports that the daytime talk queen doled out a whopping $52 million in charitable donations in 2005 alone.
She gave a total of $36 million to her Oprah Winfrey Foundation, which supports women and children's programs, reports E-online.
Spielberg, meanwhile, wrote two cheques worth $1.5 million each to aid in the post-tsumani and post-Katrina recovery.
Coincidentally, Winfrey and Spielberg recently topped Forbes' list of billionaire entertainers. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Celine Dion, Sandra Bullock, Paul and Heather McCartney, Nicolas Cage, Jackie Chan were among the other celebs to figure on the list.
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