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Matt Lauer

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  • Birth Name: Matthew Todd Lauer
  • Birth Place: New York, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/30/1957, Capricorn
  • Profession: Television newscaster; producer
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Matt Lauer Fast Facts:
  • In 1979 left Ohio University four credits short of graduation; some 18 years later, was awarded his undergraduate degree and delivered the school's commencement address.
  • Began his broadcast journalism career at WOWK-TV, in Huntington, WV, as a news producer.
  • After working at numerous TV stations throughout the 1980s and '90s, was hired as a news anchor for NBC's Today; in 1997, succeeded Bryant Gumbel as its coanchor.
  • Has won two Daytime Emmy Awards.
  • Underwent surgery to repair a separated shoulder after he fell off his bike while trying to avoid a run-in with a deer on Long Island in 2009.
  • Matt Lauer Relationships:
  • Annette Roque Lauer - Wife
  • April Lauer Stone - Sister
  • Art Gentry - Grandfather
  • Jack Matthew Lauer - Son
  • Jay Robert Lauer - Father
  • Marilyn Kolmer - Mother
  • Nancy Alspaugh - Ex-wife
  • Richard Kolmer - Stepfather
  • Romy Lauer - Daughter
  • Thijs Lauer - Son
  • College:
  • Ohio University, Athens, OH (BS in Communications, 1997)
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