Bianna Golodryga Biography
Bianna Golodryga is a CNN senior global affairs commentator who is now based in the United States. She previously worked at Yahoo! News as a news and finance anchor. She was previously a co-host of CBS This Morning and a co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America’s weekend edition.
Bianna Golodryga Age
Golodryga is 43 years old as of 2021. She was born Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga on 15 June 1978 in Causeni, Moldova.
Bianna Golodryga Height
Golodryga stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m).
Bianna Golodryga Family
Golodryga was born in Căușeni, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, to a working-class family of Bessarabian Jews. He was the only child of Zhanna and Vitaly Golodryga. Her family fled the Soviet Union as political refugees when she was 18 months old, each with $75. After originally settling in Galveston, Texas, they relocated to Houston, Texas.
She has only visited Moldova once since then, in 1988, to see her grandparents and cousins. Her grandmother joined them in Houston the following year. Her mother is Phillips 66’s chief digital and administrative officer, having previously served as Hess Corporation’s chief information officer, while her father, a mechanical engineer, was a consultant for DuPont.
Bianna Golodryga Education
Golodryga went to Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, although she wanted to be a journalist rather than an actress. After performing in a play on AIDS written by her teacher, she was encouraged to pay more attention to what was going on in the world. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Russian/East European & Eurasian studies with a minor in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2000. She is a native Russian speaker.
Bianna Golodryga Husband
Golodryga is married to Peter R. Orszag, the former Director of the Obama Administration’s Office of Management and Budget and the CEO of Lazard’s Financial Advisory division. The couple married in September 2010 and they have two children: a son Jake Spencer Orszag, and a daughter Maia Isabel Orszag.
Bianna Golodryga GMA
Following the retirement of former co-anchor Kate Snow, who went to work for NBC, Golodryga was chosen co-anchor of the weekend edition of Good Morning America in May 2010. Golodryga was the first reporter to interview Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in April 2013, and she described it as “the most heartbreaking moment” of her career.
She first helped her coworkers pronounce the name correctly, but then she was tasked with dialing Anzor in Chechnya. He could only provide a few specifics, but he called her the next day to attempt to learn more about what was going on and whether Dzhokhar, who had been taken into prison seriously injured, was still alive. She was the weekend co-anchor of Good Morning America until August 4, 2014, when she departed to join Yahoo! News’ business and finance department.
Bianna Golodryga Career
Golodryga worked as an ABC Business Correspondent, contributing to news programs such as “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Nightline.” Golodryga covered the car, housing, and financial crises extensively after joining ABC in 2007 to cover the economy and business beats. President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and financier Warren Buffett are among the people she has interviewed.
During the 2008 Presidential election, Golodryga was in charge of ABC’s digital media and social networking coverage. Golodryga comes to Yahoo in 2014 to manage the media company’s news coverage after an exhilarating seven years at ABC.
In 2001, Golodryga began her television career as a bureau producer for CNBC from the New York Stock Exchange. She produced live coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and performed numerous interviews with key business leaders. In 2006, Golodryga began participating as an on-air correspondent for CNBC in addition to producing. Golodryga worked in the financial services industry prior to her television career.
Bianna Golodryga CNN salary
Golodryga has an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Bianna Golodryga Net Worth
Golodryga has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.