Amanda Keller

Amanda Keller OAM
Amanda Keller in May 2012
Born	Amanda Rose Keller (1962-02-25) 25 February 1962 (age 54) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Education	Carlingford High School Mitchell College of Advanced Education
Occupation	Journalist, radio and television presenter and media personality
Years active	1983–present
Employer	Network Ten
Spouse(s)	Harley
Children	2 (Liam and Jack)

Amanda Rose Keller OAM (born 25 February 1962) is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and media personality best known currently as the host of the popular Australian lifestyle program The Living Room.

Keller attended Carlingford High School and Mitchell College of Advanced Education (now Charles Sturt University), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications in 1982. At university, she was a contemporary of Andrew Denton among others, and was a student of Peter Temple. She was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.

Her first professional media job was in 1983 as a researcher for the popular children's television show, Simon Townsend's Wonder World! She was later a researcher and producer for Good Morning Australia when Gordon Elliott and Kerri-Anne Kennerley were hosts. By 1985, she was a researcher and producer for Ray Martin's Midday show, where she first began to appear regularly on camera.

In 1987, she left Midday to appear in the pilot for Richard Neville's counter-culture programme Extra Dimensions, which was produced by the same team that made Beyond 2000. Extra Dimensions folded after the first season. Keller's luck changed when she was signed to Beyond 2000, the internationally popular science programme, where she won numerous media awards including the United Nations Association of Australia's Media Peace Award in 1989, and the Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism.