Ann Curry
Ann Curry | |
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| Born | November 19 1956 |
| Occupation | Television Personality |
| Spouse | Brian Ross |
| Children | McKenzie Walker |
Ann Curry (born November 19 1956) is an American journalist and television personality serving as News Anchor on the The Today Show since 1997 and co-host of Dateline NBC since 2005.
Personal
Curry was born to a Japanese mother and a father of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent. Her American father met her Japanese mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following the Second World War. The U.S. military did not initially allow the marriage, but her father returned to Japan two years later to marry his bride. Curry was born in Guam and raised in San Diego and Alameda, California, Japan, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Ashland, Oregon.
She is married to software executive Brian Ross, and has two young children, McKenzie and Walter.
Professional career
Curry began her broadcasting career in 1978 as an intern at KTVL in Medford, Oregon, near her hometown of Ashland. There she rose to become the station's first female news reporter. In 1981, Curry moved to KGW in Portland, where she was a reporter and anchor.
Three years later, Curry moved to Los Angeles, California as a reporter for KCBS-TV and received two Emmy Awards while working as a reporter from 1984 to 1990. In 1990, Curry returned to NBC news, first as the NBC Chicago correspondent then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. During this time, she also served as a replacement anchor and newsreader for the NBC news shows Today, Saturday Today and Sunday Today.
In May 2005, Curry was named co-host of Dateline NBC, joining Stone Phillips. She continues as news anchor at Today. Curry is known for her international reporting of major stories, filing stories from places such as Baghdad, Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Albania.
Curry is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. In 2004, she received the National Journalism Award of the Asian American Journalists Association. Curry is a 1978 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism.
Controversy
Curry has been sued by several of her neighbors due to complaints about excessive noise, dust, early morning start times, illegal weekend work and concerns about safety during renovation of her Manhattan brownstone.[1]
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- Articles lacking sources from April 2007
- 1956 births
- Eurasians
- Japanese Americans
- Living people
- People from Oregon
- Reporters and correspondents
- American television journalists
- Asian American journalists
- Irish-American journalists
- Los Angeles television anchors
- University of Oregon alumni
- Portland television anchors