Natalie Morales
| Natalie Morales | |
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Morales in 2011
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| Born |
Natalie Leticia Morales October 6, 1972 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University (B.A.) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Notable credit(s) |
Today co-anchor and national correspondent (2006–2011) Today news anchor and third hour co-anchor (2011–2016) Today West Coast anchor (2016–present) Access Hollywood host (2016–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Rhodes (m. 1998) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Today: Natalie Morales |
Natalie Morales-Rhodes (born Natalie Leticia Morales; October 6, 1972) is an American journalist working for NBC News. She is the Today Show West Coast anchor and appears on other programs including Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.
In August 2016, after the Rio Summer Olympics, Morales moved to Los Angeles, where she became both the Today show's West Coast anchor, Billy Bush's replacement as host of Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live, while continuing as a correspondent for Dateline.
Natalie Morales was born October 6, 1972 in Taiwan, to a Brazilian mother, Penelope, and a Puerto Rican father, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Morales, Jr. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and spent the first eighteen years of her life living in America and overseas in Panama, Brazil, and Spain as a "U.S. Air Force brat".
Morales holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University with dual majors in journalism and Latin American studies. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Following college, Morales worked at Chase Bank before pursuing her journalism career.
Morales served as a weekend anchor/reporter and morning co-anchor at WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where she reported on the Columbine shootings, Hurricane Floyd, the 2000 Presidential election and the September 11, 2001 attacks. She also co-hosted and reported for the Emmy-nominated documentary, Save Our Sound, a joint production with WNBC on preserving the Long Island Sound. She began her on-air career at News 12 – The Bronx as the first morning anchor. She also served as camera operator, editor and producer for that network. In 1999, she was voted one of the 50 Most Influential Latinas for her news coverage and reports by the Hispanic daily newspaper El Diario La Prensa. Previously, Morales spent two years working behind the scenes at Court TV.
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