Serena Altschul Biography
Serena Altschul is an American broadcast journalist who in December 2003, was named a CBS News contributing correspondent. She is a “CBS Sunday Morning” contributor.
Serena Altschul Age
Altschul is 51 years old as of 2021. She was born on 13 October 1970 in New York, New York, United States.
Serena Altschul Height
Altschul stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m).
Serena Altschul Family
Altschul is the daughter of author and botanist Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a Lehman banking family member. Her mother is half-Finnish and half-Swedish, and her father is of Jewish descent. Serena, two, and her two siblings were raised by their mother after her parents divorced.
Altschul has four brothers and sisters. Her brother, Arthur Goodhart Altschul Jr., was married to journalist Rula Jebreal, and her sister, Emily Altschul, is married to former journalist and New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner John Miller. She also has two half-brothers from her father’s previous marriage, Charles Altschul and mathematician Stephen Altschul, and a step-brother, Whitney Sudler-Smith, from her father’s later marriage to reality television series personality Patricia Dey.
Serena Altschul Cooper Cox – Husband
Serena has made an effort to keep her personal life private. She is, however, in a relationship with Cooper Cox, the President of @dmlnycdml.nyc. In 2016, she captioned a photo of herself and Cooper holding a baby, “My beautiful babies.” It is unknown whether the two are married. Cooper wished Serena a happy Mother’s Day in a post on his Instagram page on May 14, 2017.
Serena Altschul Education
Altschul studied English literature at Scripps College for a few years but did not graduate. She worked as an associate producer on the political documentary The Last Party in 1993, while still in college.
Serena Altschul Net Worth
Altschul has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Serena Altschul and Jay-Z
Altschul appeared as herself in Queen of the Damned, a vampire film directed by Michael Rymer in 2002. The film is loosely based on Anne Rice’s third novel in The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned (1988), though it contains many plot elements from the novel’s predecessor The Vampire Lestat. The film stars Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah in her final film role, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Pérez, and Lena Olin as a stand-alone sequel to Interview with the Vampire (1994).
Townsend and Matthew Newton took over the roles of Lestat and Armand from Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas, respectively. The film is dedicated to Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, after having completed all of her scenes prior to the disaster. It was released on February 22, 2002, in North America and April 4, 2002, in Australia, and received generally negative reviews from critics despite being a moderate box office success.
Serena Altschul Career
Altschul previously worked as a CNN correspondent in New York (2002-03). She also contributed to “NewsNight With Aaron Brown” and produced and hosted a one-hour “CNN Presents” special on the return of PCP, which aired last November.
Altschul continued to work as a reporter and producer for MTV News while at CNN. She joined the cable network in 1996 as a contributor to the “Choose or Lose” political awareness campaign. She reported for MTV on a wide range of hard news and pop culture stories, including profiles of political leaders and musical legends. Altschul also created, produced, and hosted the MTV documentary series “Breaking it Down,” which featured hour-long specials on topics such as gang violence, homeless teenagers, and the effects of the drug trade.
That series lasted four years (1999-2002). She hosted two acclaimed editions of MTV’s “True Life” series, one on heroin abuse among affluent Dallas teenagers and the other on the murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay University of Wyoming student.
She contributed to a December 2001 issue of CBS News magazine “48 Hours” on the rising use and abuse of Oxycontin. Altschul previously worked as a reporter for Channel One News, a news channel seen in high schools across the country. While in college, she also produced “The Last Party,” a documentary about the 1992 presidential election.