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Maria Menounos Biography

Birth Place:

Medford, Massachusetts, United States

Profession

Entertainment reporter, actor, model

Fast Facts

Worked at a Dunkin Donuts before entering and winning the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA pageant in 1996
Interviewed President George W
Bush as a Channel One News reporter during her senior year at Emerson College
Became a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight in 2002
Included in People magazine's 2004 list of the 50 Most Beautiful People
Left ET in 2005 to join competing entertainment news show Access Hollywood as a special correspondent, and to work on NBC News' Today as a West Coast contributor
Moved by the AIDS epidemic in Africa, created Take Action Hollywood!, a nonprofit organization working to raise social awareness and improve human conditions through film
Speaks fluent Greek