Natalie Morales Biography
Natalie Morales is a co-host and moderator of CBS’s daytime chat show The Talk. Morales had previously worked for NBC News as the West Coast anchor of Today, as well as Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.
Natalie Morales Age
Morales is 49 years old as of 2021. She was born Natalie Leticia Morales on June 6, 1972, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Natalie Morales Height
Morales stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches(1.6 m).
Natalie Morales Parents/Family
Lieutenant Colonel Mario Morales, Jr., a Puerto Rican, was Morales’ father. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and spent the first eighteen years of her life as a “US Air Force brat” in the United States and abroad in Panama, Brazil, and Spain. She graduated from Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware, in 1990.
Natalie Morales Wife
On August 22, 1998, Morales married Joseph Rhodes. Morales gave birth to her son, Josh, through C-section at Hoboken’s St. Mary Hospital in early 2004. Luke Hudson, their second child, was born in late 2008.
Natalie Morales Education
Morales graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies with a minor in Latin American studies. She was a Phi Beta Kappa member and received a summa cum laude diploma.
Natalie Morales House
Morales and her husband bought a $1 million home in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 2002 and extended it to 3,600 square feet in 2008. Morales’ family put their Hoboken townhouse on the market in June 2016, after Morales was named the West Coast anchor of Today, and moved into a property in Brentwood, California, the following month. The townhouse had sold for $3.1 million by October.
Natalie Morales Salary
Morales earns an annual salary of around $6 million to $8 million.
Natalie Morales Net Worth
Morales has an estimated net worth of $18 million.
Natalie Morales Career
Morales worked for Chase Bank after graduation before pursuing a career in media. She began her on-air career as the first-morning anchor at News 12 – The Bronx, where she worked alongside Roberto Soto, the station’s first news director, and founding studio directors Tom D’Elia, Brian Webb, Darryl Stith, and David Rein. She also worked for that network as a camera operator, editor, and producer.
Morales went on to work for WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, as a weekend anchor/reporter and morning co-anchor, where she covered the Columbine High School massacres, Hurricane Floyd, the 2000 Presidential election, and the September 11th attacks. She also co-hosted and reported for the Emmy-nominated documentary Save Our Sound, a collaboration with WNBC on Long Island Sound preservation.
For her news coverage and reports, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential Latinas by the Hispanic daily newspaper El Diario La Prensa in 1999. Morales previously worked behind the scenes at Court TV for two years. From 2002 until 2006, Morales worked for MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent. She covered the 2004 Presidential election, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Iraqi prisoner torture, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 2002 Beltway sniper assaults, and Scott Peterson’s investigation and prosecution there. She was also named one of the Top Trendsetters of 2003 by Hispanic Magazine.
Morales joined the Today show as a national correspondent in 2006, and in March 2008, he was designated co-anchor of the show’s third hour. When Ann Curry succeeded Meredith Vieira as host of Today in June 2011, it was reported on May 9, 2011, that Morales would take over as the news anchor. Morales revealed in 2016 that he would be traveling west to present Access and become Today’s West Coast anchor. Morales stepped down as host of Access in 2019 and remained on Today. Morales announced her departure from NBC News after 22 years in October 2021, and it was confirmed that she would become a permanent co-host and moderator on CBS’s daytime chat show The Talk.
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