Christiane Amanpour Biography
Christiane Amanpour is an American journalist working as CNN’s Chief International Anchor and the anchor of Amanpour, a nightly interview show on CNN International. She is also the host of the PBS show Amanpour & Company.
Christiane Amanpour Age
Amanpour is 64 years old as of 2022. She was born Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour on 12 January 1958 in London, United Kingdom.
Christiane Amanpour Height and Weight
Amanpour stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.71 m) and weighs 143 lbs (65 kg ).
Christiane Amanpour Family
Amanpour is the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour (née Hill) and was born in the West London neighborhood of Ealing. Her father was from Tehran, Iran. Amanpour was born and reared in Tehran till the age of eleven. Her mother was a Catholic and her father was a Shi’ite Muslim.
Christiane Amanpour Education
When she was 11, her parents sent her to boarding school in England after she completed the majority of her primary school education in Iran. She went to Holy Cross Convent, an all-girls school in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, and then New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, Essex, where she graduated at the age of 16. Shortly after the Islamic Revolution began, Christiane and her family returned to England.
She has stated that they were not forced to leave the nation but rather were returning to England as a result of the Iran–Iraq conflict. The family eventually stayed in England because it was difficult for them to return to Iran. Amanpour traveled to the United States after leaving New Hall to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. Amanpour earned a B.A. in journalism from the institution summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1983.
Christiane Amanpour Husband
Amanpour was married to James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration, and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, from 1998 to 2018.
Rubin revealed in May 2013 that the family will return to London to work on a number of projects, and Amanpour confirmed in October of the same year that she and her husband would be relocating to London permanently. Amanpour and Rubin announced their divorce in July 2018.
Christiane Amanpour Son
Darius John Rubin, her son, was born in the year 2000. They came to New York City in 2010, after living in London since 2000. They rented an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Christiane Amanpour Health / Cancer
After revealing in June that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Amanpour is on the path to recovery. Amanpour disclosed in June 2021 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had undergone “major successful surgery to remove it,” as well as many months of treatment.
Christiane Amanpour House
She and her ex-husband Rubin moved to New York City in 2010, after living in London since 2000. They rented an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Christiane Amanpour CNN
CNN hired Amanpour as an entry-level foreign desk assistant in 1983. She covered the Iran–Iraq War and the fall of Eastern Europe in her early years. During the Gulf and Bosnian wars, she earned a reputation for being fearless and reporting from conflict zones. She was CNN’s chief international correspondent from 1992 to 2010, as well as the host of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired from 2009 to 2010. After 9/11, Amanpour was the first international correspondent to interview Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
She’s had exclusive conversations with world leaders ranging from the Middle East to Europe, Africa, and beyond, including Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama, Robert Mugabe, and Moammar Gadhafi are among those who have been interviewed.
Christiane Amanpour’s show Amanpour will return to the air on April 16, 2012, according to an announcement made on December 14, 2011. On 7 January 2015, Amanpour made waves when she referred to the Islamic extremists who murdered Charlie Hebdo as “activists” during a “Breaking News” piece, saying, “On this day, these activists discovered their targets, and their targets were journalists.” “It was the Nazis’ warning shot over the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity,” Amanpour said on November 12, 2020, comparing the Trump administration to the Nazis and Kristallnacht.
Christiane Amanpour ABC News
Amanpour announced her departure from CNN on March 18, 2010, to anchor ABC News’ This Week. On August 1, 2010, she hosted her maiden broadcast. This Week’s ratings fell to their lowest point since 2003 during her first two months as host. Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi Gaddafi were interviewed on February 28, 2011. Amanpour announced on December 13, 2011, that she will be leaving her position as anchor of ABC News’s This Week on January 8, 2012, and returning to CNN International, where she had previously worked for 27 years while continuing to report for ABC News.
Christiane Amanpour PBS
After being sacked due to sexual misconduct charges, Amanpour was announced as the permanent replacement for Charlie Rose on PBS in May 2018. On September 10, 2018, her new show, Amanpour & Company, debuted on PBS. Amanpour was shown on PBS stations as Amanpour on PBS from the time Charlie Rose left the network until the new show started.
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Christiane Amanpour has been hosting the PBS daily program Amanpour & Company from her home in England since 2020. Her program is still broadcast on PBS at a number of stations around the United States, including at least four in the greater Los Angeles region of southern California.
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.
