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Name: Katie Couric  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 7th January 1957
   
Place of Birth: Arlington, Virginia, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
TIME cover featuring Katie Couric
Katie Couric with US military personnel at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia

Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and media personality. She was born in Arlington, Virginia to an Episcopalian father and a Jewish mother.

Career

Couric enrolled in the University of Virginia in 1975, graduating in 1979. Her journalism career began when she was hired as a desk assistant for the ABC News bureau in Washington, DC, later joining CNN as an assignment editor. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as a general-assignment reporter for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. During the following two years, she reported for WRC-TV, an NBC station in Washington, DC, work which earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy.

Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as a reporter. From 1989 to 1991 Couric filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today, Jane Pauley, and Deborah Norville as co-host of Today, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today, John Palmer, Deborah Norville, and Faith Daniels as anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise, and also for Faith Daniels, Deborah Norville, and John Palmer as the newsreader on Today. In 1990, she joined Today as national correspondent, becoming a co-host in February 1991, at first temporarily when Norville had a baby, but later on in April 1991 on a more permanent basis when Norville left Today to spend time with her newborn baby. In 1992, she began working as a collaborator at Dateline NBC, where her reports appear regularly. She hosted or worked on a number of news specials: Everybody's Business: America's Children, in 1995 was a report on the state of children in the U.S. Katie Couric has filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News. Couric has also filled in for Garrick Utley on the Sunday Edition of NBC Nightly News from 1989 to 1992, and also for Maria Shriver on the Saturday Edition of NBC Nightly News in 1989.

Similar "specials" of a commercial or trivial aspect were Legend to Legend: A Celebrity Cavalgate in 1993, and Harry Potter: Behind the Magic in 1999.

Personality interviews

Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities during her career, including George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, John Ramsey and his wife Patsy Ramsey, Trisha Meili (known as The Central Park Jogger), Bill Clinton, Ann Coulter and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. John F. Kennedy Jr. gave Couric his first and last interviews. In addition to that, Couric has won multiple television journalism awards through her career.

Media crossovers

In a media crossover to animated film, she was the voice of news-reporter Katie Current in the film Shark Tale, in the U.S. version. Most non-U.S. versions use a different voice, but she is still credited. She also made a cameo appearance as a prison guard at Georgia State Prison in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She guest-starred as herself on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace in late 2002.

The "Couric Effect"

Couric's husband died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42; today she is a prominent spokeswoman for colon cancer awareness. She underwent a colonoscopy on air in March of 2000, and, according to a study published by Archives of Internal Medicine (July 14, 2003), inspired many others to get checked as well:

Katie Couric's televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated with an increase in colonoscopy use in 2 different data sets. These findings suggest that a celebrity spokesperson can have a substantial impact on public participation in preventive care programs.

On October 7, 2005, Couric broadcast her own mammogram on the Today Show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Personal life

She married Jay Monahan in 1989. Couric had her first daughter, Elinor Tully Monahan, in 1991; her second daughter, Caroline, was born in 1996.

Her sister, Virginia Democratic politician, Emily Couric, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 in 2001 after a grueling battle with the disease. Couric was very close to her sister and gave a touching eulogy at the funeral. She pointed out how it irritated Emily when people asked her if she was Katie Couric's sister. Katie told the mourners "I just want you to know I will always be proud to say "I am Emily Couric's sister."

Celebrity news, such as People , reported that she dated smooth jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, but they reportedly broke up in February 2005.

She was previously and has intermittently since been linked with multi-millionaire TV producer, Tom Werner, whose home base of California has reportedly proved problematic for the New York-based Couric.

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