Ashleigh Banfield
Birth Name:
Ashleigh Banfield
Birth Place:
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Profession
Actress
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