Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.
Gatekeepers News reports that Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International program, Amanpour. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS.
Early Life
Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958 to an Iranian father, Mohammad Taghi, and a British mother, Patricia Anne Amanpour (née Hill). Her father was Shi’ite Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic.
After spending 11 years of her life Tehran (her father’s place), her parents sent her to a boarding school in England.
She and her family returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began. Having stressed the fact that they were not forced to leave the country, she said they returned to England due to the Iran–Iraq War. The family ultimately remained in England, finding it difficult to return to Iran.
Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. As a student, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island; and NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer.
She graduated with a B.A. degree in journalism in 1983.
Early Career
In 1983, CNN hired her as an entry-level desk assistant the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia. During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran–Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.
In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time. Through this position, she was able to move up in the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNN’s New York bureau.
Following Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpour’s reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking CNN to a new level of news coverage.
From 1992 to 2010, she was CNN’s chief international correspondent as well as the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010.
On 18 March 2010, Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week.
On 13 December 2011, ABC announced Amanpour would be leaving her post as anchor of ABC News’ This Week on 8 January 2012, and returning to CNN International, and also maintaining a reporting role at ABC News. This was further confirmed in a statement by ABC and CNN.
In May 2018, it was announced that Amanpour would permanently replace Charlie Rose on PBS after he was fired due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Her new program, Amanpour & Company, premiered on PBS on 10 September 2018.
Personal life
In 1998, Amanpour got married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to former President Barack Obama. They welcomed their son, Darius John Rubin in 2000.
In July 2018, Amanpour and Rubin announced they were divorcing.
In 2021, Gatekeepers News reported that Amanpour has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Net Worth
Amanpour has an estimated net worth of $16 million.
