Anderson Cooper Biography
Anderson Cooper is an award-winning Broadcast journalist and political commentator and author from the United States of America working as a primary anchor of the CNN news broadcast Anderson Cooper 360°. Anderson Cooper 360° airs on CNN on weekdays at 8:00 pm ET and is broadcast to an international audience on CNN International. Cooper also hosts Anderson Cooper Full Circle, a streaming show that airs weekdays at 5 pm ET and is also available on-demand on CNN’s digital assets.
How old is Anderson Cooper? – Age
The Anderson Cooper 360° is 54 years old as of July 3, 2021. He was born in 1967 in New York, New York, United States, and his birth name is Anderson Hays Cooper.
Anderson Cooper Family – Parents and Siblings
He is from a prominent family, his father Wyatt Emory Cooper was an author while his mother Gloria Vanderbilt was an artist, fashion designer, writer, and heiress. His brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper died on 22 July 1988, in the US, he is left with two brothers; Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski and Christopher Stokowski.
His maternal grandparents were socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, and his maternal great-grand-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the famous shipping and railroad fortune of Vanderbilt. He is also a descendant of Civil War patent Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, who was with his mother, Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, He is a second cousin of the screenwriter, James Vanderbilt, via his “Vanderbilt” line, once removed.
Who is Anderson Cooper Married to? – Spouse
Cooper is openly gay. The New York Times rated him as the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television. He publicly confirmed his separation from Benjamin Maisani in March 2018, the two have a son Wyatt Morgan born on April 27.
Anderson Cooper Education
Cooper attended Dalton School, a private preparatory day school for co-educational colleges in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood. Since graduating from Dalton, at age 17, a semester early. Cooper attended the University of Yale, where he spent time at Trumbull College.
Anderson Cooper Career
Cooper played a crucial role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored conferences and moderated many primary presidential debates and city halls. In 2016, the Committee on Presidential Debates appointed Cooper to co-moderate one of the three discussions between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Cooper is now a regular reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes, in addition to his shows on CNN. Cooper has received a number of big news awards on CNN and 60 Minutes. He helped guide the 2004 tsunami coverage of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and DuPont Award-winning coverage. In addition, eighteen Emmy Awards were awarded to him, including two for his coverage of the Haiti earthquake and an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Cooper was an ABC News reporter and host of the network’s The Mole reality show before joining CNN. Cooper hosted World News Now, ABC’s overnight newscast, and was a reporter for both World News Tonight and 20/20. From Channel One News, where he worked as a chief international reporter, Cooper joined ABC. He wrote and produced stories during that period, covering conflicts in Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa. A school television network shown regularly in more than 12,000 classrooms nationally was Channel One News.
What is Anderson Cooper’s salary? – Net Worth
He is earning $12 million every year. He has an estimated net worth of $200 million.
Anderson Cooper Books
Writing is his secondary source of income. He is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in many other outlets, including Details magazine. His first novel, Dispatches from the Edge was published in 2006. The book is based on his life and work in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq, and Louisiana in 2005. He together with his mother co-authored The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss. The book was published in 2017 and it debuted at the top of the New York Times Best-Sellers List and remained on the list for three months. His other books include;
♦ 2016; The Rainbow Comes and Goes
♦ 2021; Unti Anderson Cooper #3
♦ 1988; Biographical Dictionary of Famous Tar Heels