Nancy Grace Biography

Fast Facts

• All of her earnings from "Dancing with the Stars" went to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• Has received several American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Awards for "Nancy Grace Investigates․"
• Has authored three books, which have all appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, and one of which, "The Eleventh Victim," was made into a TV movie in November 2012
• Was named one of the most impactful and powerful women in entertainment by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter in 2011
• Was a Law Review graduate of Mercer Law School and attended New York University for her degree in Constitutional and Criminal Law
• Her first news job came as the co-host of Court TV's "Cochran and Grace․"
• Started out as felony prosecutor in the Atlanta Fulton County District Attorney's Office
• Originally planned on becoming an English professor, but shifted focus to criminal justice after her fiancé was shot and killed in 1979
• Best known as the host of the current affairs show "Nancy Grace․"
• She finished in the top five on season 13 of "Dancing with the Stars․"