Ann Curry Biography
Ann Curry is an American journalist and photojournalist who has been covering human suffering in war zones and natural disasters for over 30 years.
How old is Ann Curry? – Age
She is 64 years old as of 19 November 2020. She was born in 1956 in Hagåtña, Guam.
Ann Curry Family – Education
Curry is Hiroe Nagase’s and Robert Paul “Bob” Curry’s daughter. Her mother is Japanese, and her father, a native of Pueblo, Colorado, is of Irish and German descent. Her parents met when her father, a career United States Navy sailor, worked as a streetcar conductor in Japan following World War II. Despite being transferred out of Japan, he returned to marry Nagase two years later. Curry is the oldest of five siblings. Curry was raised as a Catholic by her mother, a convert to the faith.
Curry spent several years as a child in Japan, where he attended the Ernest J. King School at the United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki. She later relocated to Ashland, Oregon, and graduated from Ashland High School. In 1978, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Oregon.
Does Ann Curry have a daughter? – Husband
Curry is married to software executive Brian Ross, whom she met in college. McKenzie is their daughter, and William Walker Curry Ross is their son. The family resides in the Connecticut town of New Canaan.
Ann Curry Salary
She earns an annual salary of $12 million.
Ann Curry Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 Million.
How tall is Ann Curry?
She stands at a height of 1.68 m.
Ann Curry Departure from Today
Curry was widely reported to have been replaced as Today co-host in June 2012. Her departure sparked some debate about racism, especially given that she was one of the most prominent Asian-American journalists on the national stage. Curry announced her departure from Today in an emotional broadcast on June 28, 2012.
Ann Curry Career
Curry joined NBC News in 1990, first as a correspondent for NBC News Chicago, then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. Curry also worked as a substitute news anchor for Matt Lauer on Today from 1994 to 1997. She was Today’s news anchor from 1997 to 2011, becoming the show’s second-longest serving news anchor, trailing only Frank Blair, who was in that position from 1953 to 1975. During this time, she also filled in as a Today anchor.Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips on June 24, 2005; she remained the primary anchor after Phillips left on July 2, 2007, until she replaced Meredith Vieira on Today in 2011. From 2005 to 2011, she was the primary substitute on NBC Nightly News.
Curry has covered major international stories from places like Baghdad, Sri Lanka, the Congo, Rwanda, Albania, and Darfur. On July 7, 2007, Curry hosted NBC’s primetime coverage and highlights of the Live Earth concerts, and he also contributed to the special with interviews with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Vice President Al Gore. Curry reported from the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the November 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and he had an exclusive interview with General Tommy Franks. In early 2003, she reported from Baghdad, and then from the USS Constellation as the Iraq war began. Curry was also the first network news anchor to report from the inside of a building. In early 2003, she reported from Baghdad, and then from the USS Constellation as the Iraq war began. In late 2004, Curry was also the first network news anchor to report from inside the Southeast Asian tsunami zone.
Curry bungee-jumped off the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough, England, on December 17, 2007, to raise funds for charity. Her leap was broadcast live on the Today show. Curry traveled to Iran in 2009, where she interviewed then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just days before Ahmadinejad traveled to America to address the United Nations General Assembly. Curry was featured in the first PBS Kids Sprout “Kindness Counts” public service announcement in 2011.
Where is Ann Curry Now?
In January 2018, Curry returned to television with her six-part PBS series, We’ll Meet Again. Developed by her own production company, the series focuses on 12 stories of people searching for individuals who changed their lives. She then appeared on The View as guest co-host on January 23, 2018, where she addressed the controversies surrounding her departure from Today. Since August 2019, Curry now hosts TNT/TBS’s Chasing the Cure.
She moderated a panel discussion between the Dalai Lama and Lady Gaga at the 84th annual United States Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis in June 2016. In July 2017, PBS announced a new documentary television series We’ll Meet Again with Ann Curry, which Curry will host and co-produce. She attended WE Day at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in November 2017. She also spoke at two other WE Day events in 2018: one in Seattle and one in Toronto.
Curry returned to television in January 2018 with her six-part PBS series, We’ll Meet Again. The series, created by her own production company, focuses on 12 stories of people looking for people who changed their lives. On January 23, 2018, she appeared as a guest co-host on The View, where she addressed the controversies surrounding her departure from Today. Curry has been hosting TNT/Chasing TBS’s the Cure since August 2019.
