Ann Curry birthplace

Ann Curry birthplace

Ann Curry birthplace - Ann Curry is an American television journalist. She grew up as an army brat, moving every few years, eventually graduating from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism in 1978. After interning, she became the first female news reporter for KGW in Portland.
Curry started with NBC in 1990, moving up to anchor Dateline NBC. In 2011, she began co-anhoring NBC's Today program.Television journalist. Born November 19, 1956 in the U.S. Territory of Guam. Ann Curry??s father was an American of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent who met her Japanese mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II. Her childhood followed her father??s military career, and she was raised in San Diego and Alameda, California, Japan, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Ashland, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in 1978.

 

In 1978, Ann Curry took an internship at KTVL in Medford, Oregon, eventually becoming the station's first female news reporter. In 1981, she took a three-year post as a reporter and anchor at KGW in Portland. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she was a reporter for KCBS-TV from 1984 to 1990. While there, she won two Emmy Awards.

In 1990, Ann Curry signed on with NBC news, first working as the network??s Chicago correspondent and then anchoring NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. She also served as a replacement anchor and newsreader for the Today show. In 2005, she joined Stone Phillips as co-host of Dateline NBC, while continuing as news anchor at Today. Curry has earned a reputation for her coverage of global humanitarian crises from such hot spots as Baghdad, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Albania and Darfur.

 

Throughout her career, Ann Curry has landed several exclusive interviews, including Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idrsiss Deby. She also conducted the first exclusive interview with General Tommy Franks before the outbreak of the war in Iraq. Other notable interviews include Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female elected President of an African nation; Thomas Hamill, the Halliburton truck driver who escaped captivity in Iraq; and accused spy Wen Ho Lee after he was cleared of all charges of espionage against the United States.

Ann Curry is married to software executive Brian Ross. The couple lives in New York City with their two children, McKenzie and Walker.As one of the longest serving anchors on "Today," Curry started her journey in smaller markets on the West Coast, but she's originally from another country.