Christiane Amanpour Bio, Wiki
Christiane Amanpour (full name – Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour) is a British Anchor and Reporter working at CNN as the chief international anchor of the network’s award-winning, flagship global affairs program “Amanpour,” which also airs on PBS in the United States. She works for CNN serving the station as an anchor.
Christiane Amanpour Age
Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958, in London, United Kingdom. She is therefore 66 years old as of 2024, and celebrates her birthday on the 12th of January every year.
Christiane Amanpour Height
Amanpour stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches.
Christiane Amanpour Career
Amanpour works as an anchor at CNN. She rose through the organization in 1983 when she was an entry-level assistant on the international assignment desk at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta and became a reporter at the New York bureau, and later, the network’s leading international reporter. What made her famous to her audiences was her fearless and uncompromising approach.
Amanpour has documented the bloody violence that has marked Iraq’s recent history from the 1991 Gulf War to the 2003 American-led invasion. Also, she reported exclusively from the courtroom at the trial of Saddam Hussein in 2004, where the retired dictator, messy and in chains, was finally sentenced to death for offenses against humanity.
After she finished her high school education Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism(B.A.J). The primetime interview program has seen Amanpour speak to a raft of leaders and decision-makers on the matters impacting the world today and she was launched in the year 2009Amanpour exposed the brutality of the Bosnian War during the siege of Sarajevo, covering the day-to-day calamity of life for civilians in the city.
Amanpour has secured exclusive interviews with global power players throughout her time at CNN. She was the first international reporter to interview Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Also, she conducted an Emmy-winning interview, the last, with Libya’s former leader ‘Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, during the height of the Arab Spring.
Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak was exposed, she was also the last journalist to interview him. Following her country’s shocking defeat in the 2014 World Cup semi-final, Amanpour was the first journalist to interview Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Additionally, she had the unusual opportunity to have a face-to-face interview with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro discussing on the widespread violent demonstrations in his nation.
Amanpour has obtained every major television journalism award such as four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, twelve News and Documentary Emmy Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. This year she was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame and also received nine honorary degrees, named a CBE. She broke the news of photographs and a dossier of testimony in January 2014 which alleged to show the systematic torment of convicts by government forces in Syria, receiving a panel of war crimes experts who attested to the veracity of the shocking allegations.
She has covered the aftermath of many humanitarian troubles such as the 2011 Japanese tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina, where she visited a community center that had been converted to a makeshift morgue for victims of the storm and the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Amanpour is not only an anchor and reporter but also an active rights campaigner. A board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the Centre for Public Integrity, in order for her to raise awareness of key global issues and journalists’ rights she has used her profile. She used an appearance on BBC television to raise awareness of the plight of the 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram – asking British Prime Minister David Cameron to join the #BringBackOurGirls campaign in 2014.
Christiane Amanpour’s Net Worth
In Amanpour’s career as an anchor, she has been able to accumulate a net worth ranging between $1 Million and $3 Million.
Christiane Amanpour Salary
She receives annual earnings that range between $35,000 and $100,000.
Christiane Amanpour Parents and Siblings
Amanpour was born to Patricia Amanpour (mother) and Mohammad Amanpour (father). Her dad worked for Iran Air as an airline executive and stopped working (losing his fortune and job) in the year 1979, after the Iran Revolution. Amanpour was raised alongside her sister, Lizzy Amanpour.
Christiane Amanpour Husband and Son
Amanpour hasn’t revealed any information about her current relationship status. However, it is known that she was married to James Rubin, a famous Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, in the administration of Bill Clinton. Their marriage lasted for 20 years (from 1998 to 2018), and their marriage ended in a divorce. Amanpour and her ex-husband were blessed with a son, Darius John Rubin, who is 24 years old as of 2024 having been born in the year 2000.
Languages Christiane Amanpour Speaks
She enjoyed a privileged upbringing in which she learned to speak Farsi (the main language spoken in the non-Arab nation of Iran), French, and English.
Christiane Amanpour’s health update
In 20121 April, the international journalist and news anchor Amanpour went to her doctor in London for an annual screening, when a grapefruit-sized cyst was discovered on her right ovary. She asked if it was malignant. They told her that she had an MRI, a CT scan, and more blood tests. Amanpour was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian clear cell carcinoma On May 5, 2021. She had major surgery followed by 18 weeks of chemotherapy. Now in remission, she’s sharing her experience to spread awareness about early detection.
She says “Ovarian cancer is known as the invisible killer.”She advises the women gender and young girls to get all the scans that they can. We women know better what’s going on with our own bodies than anybody. We can trust ourselves. If there’s something wrong, pursue it.” “She credits medical experts and support from loved ones including her 22-year-old son Darius John (his dad is her ex-husband, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin) for getting her through the tough times. Just six months after completing her chemotherapy, Amanpour is already back in the field doing what she loves.
Christiane Amanpour CNN
Amanpour works at CNN where she works alongside her fellow anchors, reporters, and meteorologists such as;
- Erica Hill
- Laura Jarrett
- Brianna Keilar
- John King
- Zain Asher
- John Berman
- Becky Anderson
- Jim Acosta
- Dana Bash
- Guillermo Arduino
Christiane Amanpour Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
She is vocal on her social media accounts where she posts frequently. On her Twitter account, she has about 3.2M followers, around 917k followers on her Facebook page, and about 224k followers on her Instagram account.