Ashleigh Banfield Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned two IRIS awards for Best News Documentary and Best of Festival for her documentary about the life of a homeless man in 1994
• Received the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Anchor in 2008
• Earned a National Headliner Award for her live reporting work in the Middle East from September 2001 to January 2004
• Graduated from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada with Bachelor's degrees in Political Studies and French
• Started out as a freelance associate producer for ABC's "World News Tonight․"
• Worked at CICT-TV in Canada as a producer, evening news anchor, and business correspondent from 1992 to 1995
• Best known as the anchor of the weekday news show "CNN Newsroom․"
• Creator and co-producer of the TruTV primetime series "Disorder in the Court․"
• She has interviewed a wide variety of people, including Yasser Arafat, the Saudi Prince Al Faisal, George W․ Bush, Bill Clinton, Jane Fonda, Donald Trump, and Hugh Grant
• Has reported on a number of issues, including the Concorde crash in France, the 2000 presidential election, and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia