Lawrence O’Donnell Biography
Lawrence O’Donnell is an American television anchor, actor, and liberal political commentator who hosts The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weekday MSNBC opinion and news show.
Lawrence O’Donnell Age
O’Donnell is 70 years old as of 2021. He was born Lawrence Francis O’Donnell Jr. on 7 November 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Lawrence O’Donnell Height
O’Donnell stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.78 m).
Lawrence O’Donnell Family
O’Donnell is the son of Lawrence Francis O’Donnell Sr., an attorney, and Frances Marie, an office manager. He is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a devout Catholic.
Lawrence O’Donnell Wife
O’Donnell married Kathryn Harrold on February 14, 1994. Elizabeth Buckley Harrold O’Donnell is the couple’s only child. In 2013, O’Donnell and Harrold divorced. While on vacation in the British Virgin Islands in April 2014, he and his brother Michael were injured in a road accident. After a two-month hiatus, O’Donnell returned to his MSNBC show The Last Word in June.
Lawrence O’Donnell Education
He was a captain of the baseball team and a wide receiver on the undefeated football team at St. Sebastian’s School. O’Donnell attended Harvard College and graduated in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He wrote for the Harvard Lampoon while at Harvard.
Lawrence O’Donnell Books
O’Donnell worked as a writer from 1977 through 1988. His book Deadly Force, concerning wrongful death and police brutality case in which O’Donnell’s father was the plaintiff’s lawyer, was published in 1983. A Case of Deadly Force, starring Richard Crenna as O’Donnell’s father and Tate Donovan as O’Donnell, was released in 1986, with O’Donnell serving as associate producer. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics was published by O’Donnell in 2017.
Lawrence O’Donnell The West Wing
O’Donnell was a part of the television show The West Wing from 1999 to 2006. He wrote 16 episodes throughout the time. He was executive story editor for 12 episodes from 1999 to 2000, co-producer for five episodes in 2000, producer for 17 episodes from 2000 to 2001, consultant producer for 44 episodes from 2003 to 2005, and executive producer for 22 episodes from 2005 to 2006. For The West Wing, O’Donnell won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2001, and he was nominated for the same award in 2006. In 2002, O’Donnell worked as a supervising producer and writer on the television drama First Monday, and in 2003, he was the show’s creator, executive producer, and writer.
Lawrence O’Donnell Salary
O’Donnell earns an annual salary of $4 Million.
Lawrence O’Donnell Net Worth
O’Donnell has an estimated net worth of $16 Million.
Lawrence O’Donnell Hosting
O’Donnell joined Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough as a regular contributor in 2009. On that show and others, his combative debate style led to multiple on-air spats, including a heated conversation with conservative Marc Thiessen on Morning Joe, where Scarborough had to pull O’Donnell off the air. In 2009 and 2010, O’Donnell began filling in on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on a regular basis, particularly when Olbermann’s father was unwell in the hospital.
On September 27, 2010, O’Donnell began anchoring The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC at 10 p.m. After Keith Olbermann abruptly ended his show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, on January 21, 2011, it was announced that O’Donnell will take up the 8 p.m. spot from him. The Last Word with Lawrence will begin airing on October 24, 2011. With Ed Schultz taking over the 8 p.m. Eastern position and O’Donnell returning to the 10 p.m. Eastern slot, O’Donnell exchanged time slots with The Ed Show.
Lawrence O’Donnell Film
In the HBO series Big Love, about a polygamous family in Utah, O’Donnell played Lee Hatcher, the Henrickson family attorney. In addition to being a producer on The West Wing, O’Donnell also appeared in a flashback sequence in the episode “Two Cathedrals” as President Josiah Bartlet’s father. In two episodes of Monk, O’Donnell played Judge Lawrence Barr, and in an episode of Showtime’s Homeland, he played himself.
Lawrence O’Donnell Politics
O’Donnell described himself as a “realistic European socialist” in a 2005 interview. In addition, O’Donnell branded himself a “I am not a progressive,” he said on the Morning Joe show on November 6, 2010. I’m not a liberal who has had to change my name to ‘progressive’ because I’m terrified of the word. Liberals make me laugh. I identify as a socialist. I reside on the far left of the political spectrum, far left of you petty liberals.” “I’ve been calling myself a socialist since I first read the concept of socialism in the first economics class I took in college,” O’Donnell continued on August 1, 2011, episode of The Last Word.
Lawrence O’Donnell Religion
“Romney comes from a religion that was founded by a felon who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist,” O’Donnell said of Mitt Romney’s religious speech in 2007. O’Donnell made comments about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) on The Last Word on April 3, 2012, calling it a “invented religion” that was “created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it.” O’Donnell apologized for the April 3 statements on The Last Word on April 11, 2012, saying that they angered many people, including some of the show’s most ardent followers.
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