Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour CBE is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. She is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Amanpour. She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe, Africa and beyond.
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Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour CBE is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. She is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour was born in the west London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour. Her father was Persian, from Tehran, and she is natively fluent in English and Persian. She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe, Africa and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others. After 911, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. She also conducted interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nicol Maduro, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama and Moammar Gadhavi, Reza Reza al-Taweel, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and John Cusack. She was not a fan of her successor Jeff Fager’s telephone work and was terminated from her contract in 2005. She received a Peabody Award in 1998 for her special reports on the Siege of Sarajevo, which garnered her one of the most memorable moments of her television career in that time.
She currently hosts Amanpour & Company on PBS, which airs on PBS stations in the U.S. and in Europe and Canada. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two children, a son, a daughter and a step-daughter. She and her husband have a son and a daughter, all of whom are currently living in the United States. They have two step-daughters and a son-in-law, both of whom also live in New Jersey and New York. Her husband and daughter have two children of their own, who live in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The couple have two grandchildren, a boy and a girl, who are both in their late 20s and 30s, and they have three step-great-grandchildren. They also have one great-grandchild, who is in his early 20s. She works as a freelance journalist and has been married to former CNN anchor David Gergen since 2007. She worked for CNN from 1983 to 2010 as a foreign correspondent and anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010. She reported on major crises from many of the world’s hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans. She gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.
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