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Katie Couric: Biography

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Birth Name: Katherine Anne Couric
Birth Place: Arlington, VA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/07/1957, Capricorn
Profession: TV host; news anchor

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Katie Couric Fast Facts:

Was a high school cheerleader, gymnast, runner, National Honor Society member and newspaper writer.
After watching her fill in for an absent news correspondent at the start of her career in 1980, a CNN executive said he never wanted to see her on the air again.
While Deborah Norville was out on maternity leave, she sat in for her as co-anchor of NBC's Today Show, and officially replaced Norville in 1991.
Launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) to encourage preventive testing and new medical research after her husband died of colon cancer in 1998.
Wrote a bestselling children's book, The Brand New Kid, in 2000.
Named News Person of the Year by TV GUIDE in 2001. Other awards she has won include Daytime Emmys, an Associated Press Award and a National Headliner Award.
Was the voice of the character Katie Current in the animated movie Shark Tale (2004).
In 2006, she left the Today Show to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first woman to solo anchor a weeknight network news broadcast.
In 2009, won a Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.

Katie Couric Relationships:
Brooks Perlin - Ex-significant Other
Caroline Couric Monahan - Daughter
Clara Couric Batchelor - Sister
Elinor Couric - Mother
Elinor Tully Monahan - Daughter
Emily Couric - Sister
Jeffrey Wadlow - Nephew
John M. Couric - Father
John M. Couric Jr. - Brother
John Paul (Jay) Monahan III - Husband (deceased)
Katie Couric Awards:
2000 Peabody: None - Winner
College:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (American Studies, 1979)

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