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Cecilia Vega Biography

Birth Name:Cecilia Vega

Profession Actress

Fast Facts

  • Has received awards for her reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the East Bay Press Club, the Hearst Corporation and the New York Times
  • As a print reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, she broke a number of stories about the administration of then Mayor Gavin Newsom
  • Has covered a story about Pippa Middleton in Paris and traveled to the White House since joining ABC News in 2011
  • Has covered such stories as Whitney Houston's death, the Occupy Wall Street protests and the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo
  • While working for KGO-TV in San Francisco, she held an award-winning interview with a witness to an attack on a high school girl at a homecoming dance
  • Became a Los Angeles based correspondent for ABC news, a position that encompasses contribution to all of the station's news platforms
  • Has traveled in a submarine in the middle of the Arctic and gone to Mexico to pet whales

Awards

  • 2019Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Morning Program: nominated
  • 2019Emmy-Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine: nominated
  • 2026WGA Award (TV)-News Script – Analysis, Feature, or Commentary: nominated