Andrea Catherwood
| Andrea Catherwood | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Andrea Catherine Catherwood 27 November 1967 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | Presenter, journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Gray Smith (m. 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
Andrea Catherine Catherwood (born 27 November 1967) is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist.
Andrea Catherwood was born and raised in Belfast where her mother, Adrienne McGuill, was an announcer and newsreader at Ulster Television, from 1959 to 1969 and also presented The Romper Room from 1964 to 1969 as Miss Adrienne. Adrienne Catherwood was awarded an MBE in 2004 for her work with the charity Action Medical Research. Andrea was educated at Strathearn School in Belfast. Her broadcasting career began aged 16 when she joined the BBC in Belfast as a co-presenter of a youth current affairs programme, for which she won BBC Northern Ireland's Young Presenter of the Year award. The following year she co-presented the youth current affairs programme Up Front. Aged 18, Catherwood made a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the 18 years of troubles in Northern Ireland.
Following an honours degree in Law from the University of Manchester, in 1990 Catherwood joined Ulster Television where she spent three years as a news and features reporter. In 1993 she joined NBC Asia in Hong Kong as a news reporter, covering the handover of Hong Kong to China and the 1997 stock-market turmoil. She travelled extensively throughout Asia, and in Burma interviewed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
She joined ITN in April 1998 starting as newscaster and senior reporter for ITV News, presenting the ITV Morning News and providing special reports for News at Ten. She then became medical correspondent for ITV News. Having joined Five News in 2000 as a main news presenter, she moved back to ITV in 2001.
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