Mo Rocca Biography
Mo Rocca is a comedian, journalist, and actor from the United States. He is a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, the host, and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, and the host of CBS’s The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation.
Mo Rocca Age
Rocca is 53 years old as of 2022. He was born on 28 January 1969 in Washington, D.C., United States.
Mo Rocca Height
Rocca stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.83m).
Mo Rocca Family
Rocca’s mother arrived from Bogotá, Colombia in 1956, when he was 28 years old, and his father was a third generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts. He has two siblings; Frank Rocca and Larry Rocca.
Mo Rocca Partner
Rocca revealed his sexual orientation on The Six Pack podcast (episode 73) in July 2011. Gay rights activists applauded his attendance at Pope Francis’s September 2015 Mass in Madison Square Garden.
Mo Rocca Education
In North Bethesda, Maryland, he attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys’ school. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in literature from Harvard University in 1991. He was the president of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where he performed in four of the company’s infamous burlesques and co-wrote one (Suede Expectations).
Mo Rocca The Good Fight
In the second season of The Good Fight, Rocca portrayed a conservative morning TV show host. The Good Fight is an American legal drama produced for CBS All Access (later Paramount+), the company’s streaming service. It is the first original scripted series on the platform. The series, created by Robert King, Michelle King, and Phil Alden Robinson, is a spin-off and standalone sequel to the Kings’ previous work, The Good Wife. The first season has ten episodes and premiered on CBS on February 19, 2017, with the first episode airing on CBS and the remaining nine episodes on CBS All Access. The series was originally scheduled to premiere in May 2017, but it was pushed up due to production delays that forced CBS to postpone the premiere of the new series Star Trek: Discovery.
Mo Rocca Innovation Nation
Rocca is the host of CBS’s The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation. CBS Dream Team is an American programming block produced by Hearst Media Production Group (formerly Litton Entertainment) that airs on CBS under a time-lease agreement on Saturday mornings as a replacement for the WildBrain-produced animation block Cookie Jar TV. The block includes six half-hour live-action documentary and lifestyle series aimed at teenagers aged 13 to 16, and is intended to meet the educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the Children’s Television Act.
Mo Rocca Podcast
Rocca turned his interest in obituaries into a podcast called “Mobituaries,” which is currently in its second season. In 2019, Rocca published Mobituaries, a book about underappreciated people in history such as Elizabeth Jennings Graham, based on his “Mobituaries” podcast.
Mo Rocca Food
Rocca created and hosts the Cooking Channel program My Grandmother’s Ravioli, for which he travels across the United States, learning to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens. He previously hosted Food(ography) on the Cooking Channel and was a regular judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America.
Rocca appeared as a commentator on VH1’s I Love the ’70s and I Love the ’80s shows. He hosted Bravo’s Things I Hate About You channel and Whoa! Sunday, which debuted on the Animal Planet TV channel in 2005. He also appeared in the episodes “Authority” (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and “Contract” (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) of the Law & Order television franchise in 2008. He also hosts The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, a weekly program that has aired as part of the CBS Dream Team on Saturdays since 2014. On September 25, 2015, Rocca served as Lector at Pope Francis’ Mass at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
Mo Rocca Net Worth
Rocca stands at a height of $3 Million.
Mo Rocca Career
Mo worked as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for four seasons and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for four seasons. Mo, the former president and author of Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Show, is no stranger to the stage, having played Vice Principal Douglas Panch in Broadway’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Doody in Grease’s Southeast Asia Tour.
Mo got his start in television as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS children’s show Wishbone. He went on to write and produce for other children’s shows, such as ABC’s Pepper Ann and Nickelodeon’s The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, a pre-school series that combines the whimsy of Seuss characters with the magic of Jim Henson puppetry. All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over is his book.
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