Christiane Amanpour is so exotic...

[Bluebear]

Any idea on her ethnic background/nationality? I am glad to see her on the air again, they had her hidden for a while for some reason.

[Leilani]

1. I believe she is at least part Iranian

& schooled in Europe.

[Leilani]

3. She wasn t hidden

She married Jamie Rubin, had a baby, & has been working out of London.

I think she just gave her private life some time.

[kokomo]

8. Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island

and became a very close friend of John Kennedy, Jr. while he was at Brown University.

[caledesi]

12. Yes. My Alma Mater...URI Yay!

[Bunny]

34. I think I read somewhere that she and JFK, Jr. were roommates

at Brown, along with some other students, apparently.

[riverwalker]

2. Iranian/Turkish I think

and married to Jamie Rubin. I think she just had a baby.

[Bluebear]

4. Thanks leilani and river...fast info!

[Aristus]

5. I've loved Christiane Amanpour for about twelve years now.

She's so smart and sexy and poised. Listen to me gush. Well, who cares? She's incredible!

[rppper]

26. go ahead and gush.......

[indigobusiness]

6. 1/2 Iranian

Amanpour indicates Indian, but I'm not sure how it all shakes down.

Raised in London, I believe.

She's terrific. What a woman.

[Jacobin]

7. The only journalist left on CNN

[kokomo]

10. but seems to be less visible all of the time. Maybe she gets the coffee!

[SoCalDem]

9. She was a child in Tehran.. A few years back, she did a piece on CNN

FROM there, and went back to the house she lived in.. It was very bittersweet.. She was raised in Europe and the UK..

She's the only intelligent CNN employee:)

you might even find the video here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=amanpour+report+from+tehran

[meisje]

11. War Slut!

[i like pizza]

13. your all wrong

She is IRANIAN(persian)

[SoCalDem]

14. I wasn't wrong

:evilgrin:

[rman]

22. Where the heck did you get that idea?

CNN GIVES CHRISTIANE 'PRIVATE' DRESS DOWN

September 16, 2003 -- CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private converation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war.
Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC, set off shockwaves in the TV world over the weekend when she said she thought her employer, CNN, was "muzzled" in its war coverage by a combination of the White House and its competitive position with the higher-rated Fox News Channel.

"I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled," she said. "I'm sorry to say that, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station, was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News."

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/5866.htm

[bat17]

15. Amanpour's nationality

British/Iranian. Raised in Iran.

[Cleita]

16. She works mostly for CNN International and sometimes

US CNN airs her stories, not enough IMO. I try to catch CNNintl on weekends when it replaces CNNfncl. It's quite different than US CNN. For one it practices better journalism and doesn't propagandize for Bush-Co. I understand that she was quite pissed off for awhile over some dumb thing our fearless and dumber than shit leader did that put the journalists covering the Iraq war in grave danger, more so than they already are in danger. I can't recall the specifics, but Randi spoke about it on her show. Evidently Christiane had confided in Randi about being pissed off.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

17. Hubby has been in love

with her since I don't know when. Can I sue for alienation of affection?

[VOX]

18. Born 1/12/58 in London, to an Iranian father and a British mother...

Here are the details; sorry, can;t link -- got this off a public library search.

NAME: Christiane Amanpour
Birth: January 12, 1958 in London, England
Nationality: British
Occupation: journalist
Source: Newsmakers 1997, Issue 4. Gale Research, 1997.
Updated: 05/2000
The oldest of the four daughters of an Iranian-Muslim airline executive and his British-Catholic wife, Amanpour was born in London, England. The family moved to Teheran, Iran when she was eight months old, where they were politically well-connected. While growing up there, Amanpour's family vacationed in Switzerland with the family of Iran's ambassador to the United States. The Amanpours even met up with actor James Mason and his wife on trips to London. Alan Jolis commented in his Vogue profile that Amanpour is a tomboy and hinted that she must have been a brat growing up in Teheran. "Oh, yes," she responded, "I was terrible. When I was five, I clambered onto a table to retrieve a balloon that had gotten stuck on the ceiling and pulled the entire chandelier down." However, she was quick to add that she had what she believes to be the world's best childhood.
Amanpour was sent to Holy Cross Convent School in Buckinghamshire, England when she was eleven years old. Although not far from he maternal grandparents' home, she told Jolis that she was miserable. "Bog Irish nuns hit me with rulers. I was so homesick. When it was my turn to wash up all the cutlery after meals, I used to cry and use my homesickness as an excuse to get someone else to wash up for me." At age 16, Amanpour moved on to New Hall, the oldest Catholic girls' school in the United Kingdom. Initially, Amanpour told Vogue, her career goals were set on medicine. "I wanted to be a surgeon," she said. She realized her poor grades would never get her into medical school, so upon graduation at age 18, she went to work in a department store. During this time, one of her sisters had been accepted to a London journalism school, but then changed her mind about attending. "I tried to get her tuition reimbursed," Amanpour told Jolis. "They refused, so I said, 'Can you take me?' That's how I got in--a fluke, really!"

In 1979, the Amanpour family left Iran as a result of the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution. Although the immediate family relocated safely to London, an uncle who had been director of the military police hospital was arrested and died in jail, reported Stephen Kinzer in the New York Times Magazine.

The family's resettlement in London was difficult, Amanpour told Ron Arias in People, and her father lost everything. The Amanpours "had to start over. But I remember I wanted to have a reason to be in the middle of things, with all the movers and shakers. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent." Amanpour had friends in Rhode Island and was lucky enough to have her maternal grandmother foot part of the bill for her tuition to the University of Rhode Island, where she entered at age 22 and majored in journalism. A self-proclaimed perfectionist who hates mediocrity, she earned straight A's except in economics, in which she got a C. "I graduated with a 3.8 average, but I should have had a 4.0," she said in Jolis's Vogue article. She graduated summa cum laude in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

While a student at the University of Rhode Island, Amanpour worked part-time in the news departments of WBRU, a local radio station in Providence, and WJAR-TV, an NBC affiliate. After graduating, she stayed on at WJAR and was assigned to the station's investigative reporting team. Jim Taricani, who headed the team, told Kinzer that he knew she would make it in the news business, describing her as "an extraordinary person" who "had a lot of drive."

One of Amanpour's URI professors, Antone Silvia, recalled his student's worry that her "bad dialect" would be a liability in broadcasting. When CNN was starting up in the early eighties, no one believed that 24-hour cable news could ever succeed on a minor level, let alone compete with the major networks. While Silvia himself turned down a job at CNN for just those reasons, Amanpour--accent and all-- was hired on the basis of a telephone interview and packed up for Atlanta in September of 1983. She arrived with little more than a bicycle and a few dollars, but went to work quickly, answering phones, typing scripts, and taking satellite feeds at CNN's foreign desk. A former supervisor of Amanpour's, Eason Jordan, told People that Amanpour immediately let it be known that she "wanted to be a star. We all smiled." CNN's executive vice president of news Ed Turner (no relation to Ted Turner) told a similar story to Stephen Kinzer of New York Times Magazine: "When she first came in here, I remember her telling me not only that she was going to be a correspondent, but that she was going to be a foreign correspondent. I tried to dissuade her and tell her gently that it didn't seem to be in the cards. She just looked at me and ... answer: 'You wait, Ed Turner, you just wait.'"

<snip>

[silverpatronus]

19. i adore her

have for years. she's an incredible woman, and an incredible journalist.

[DeepModem Mom]

20. She's been almost wall-to-wall on CNN International recently...

from Afghanistan, covering not only the lead up to the election, but the country, and its people, generally. She's earned her place as a great journalist, and CNN earns shame for not airing her international reports domestically. Instead, we get Daryn, Judy, Candy....

[IronLionZion]

21. Her husband, MP Robin Cook, resigned because of the war

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2859431.stm

[DeepModem Mom]

23. I believe Christiane is married to American Jamie Rubin...

formerly in the Clinton State Department, now advising Kerry.

[Sputnik]

27. Yeah, she is married to Jamie Rubin

And they have a son. Jamie is g-g-g-gorgeous. They are a very attractive couple. I mean, I've never seen them together, but they must be, lol.

[DeepModem Mom]

28. Jamie was at a Kerry event I attended, and all the women...

were swooning -- he is one good looking man!

[indigobusiness]

36. Correct...here's some info

News reporter for CNN.

Christiane Amanpour


Husband James P. Rubin is the State Department spokesman. <1999>

She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.

Her first child, with husband James, was born <27 March 2000>

She is half-Iranian

Lived in Iran until her late teens/early twenties. She left her homeland because of the Iranian Revolution.

Her son born was born on 27 March 2000. He was named Darius John Rubin - John after her & husband's very good friend JFK Jr.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. she's definitely not married to Robin Cook

he had a messy divorce from his wife Margaret in the late 90s, and then married his secretary Gaynor.

[IronLionZion]

32. Ok

I stand corrected. I guess it's Jamie Rubin then.

[itcfish1]

25. She is Iranian

born and raised in Iran, went to school in England, also went to school with JFK Jr.and they were very close friends.

[marano]

29. I think she's hot too.

[supercrash]

30. Hehe

A funny thing happened to her when she was reporting in Iraq, I guess she was there too long and her mustach started to grow out, Did anyone else notice this ? I am not joking...

[DURHAM D]

37. Oh please . . .

Unless you are as perfect as JFK, Jr. you should can this sort of comment. Hair (anywhere but on your head for women) is for the most part an American male issue.

[supercrash]

38. LOL....

"As perfect as JFK jr."

Are you kidding ?

The guy was a tool, far from 'perfect'

[realFedUp]

31. Damn smart and more honest than most CNNers.

[951]

33. Most middle eastern women are hot

Sad that they live in such a decrepit society where they are forced to cover themselves its disgusting.

[rumguy]

35. She's the Chrissie Hynde of foreign correspondents

[Dangerman]

39. The only flower in a network of bad thorns.

Ms. Amanpour is the last true journalist, not only on CNN, but the entire media.

If she gets fired, there will be no more legitimate reporters in the whole TV news business.