Faith C. Salie
| Faith Salie | |
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April 14, 1971 South Weymouth, Massachusetts, US |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
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| Website | faithsalie |
Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971) is an American journalist, writer, actor, comedian and television and radio host. She is a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. She hosts Science Goes To The Movies on PBS and CUNY TV. Her first book, Approval Junkie, a collection of humorous essays, was published by Crown in April 2016.
Born in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, Salie is the youngest of three children born to Robert Salie and Gail Coley Salie. She grew up in Dunwoody, Georgia with her two older brothers, Doug (the eldest) and David Salie. She was raised Roman Catholic.
She began dancing at age three and decided she wanted to be an actor after getting the lead in the fourth-grade class play. Salie began performing professional children’s theatre at thirteen. One of her first jobs was acting in a Chick-fil-A industrial film. In college, she performed in plays and musicals with Matt Damon, Mo Rocca, China Forbes, Laurence O’Keefe, and Nell Benjamin. In graduate school, she performed improv comedy with Eric Garcetti, the current mayor of Los Angeles.
Salie graduated in 1989 from North Springs High School in Fulton County, Georgia (now Sandy Springs, Georgia). She enrolled as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and later transferred to Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature of Modern France and England. Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, she earned an M.Phil. in Modern English Literature from Oxford University.
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