Richard Roeper
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Roeper at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
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| Born | Richard E. Roeper October 17, 1959 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film critic, journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Illinois State University |
| Subject | Film criticism |
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Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, as Gene Siskel's successor. From 2010 until 2014 he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM.
On October 19, 2015, Roeper was selected as the new host for the FOX 32 morning show Good Day Chicago.
Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in south suburban Dolton, Illinois, and attended Thornridge High School, graduating from Illinois State University in 1982.
Roeper began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment.
He has also written seven books, on topics from movies to urban legends to conspiracy theories to the Chicago White Sox. In 2009 Roeper appeared on Howard Stern's show and said he had written a book on gambling, entitled Bet the House, which was released in the first quarter of 2010.
Roeper also was a radio host on WLS AM 890 in Chicago. He also hosted shows on WLUP-FM, WLS-FM and WMVP-AM in Chicago. He won three Emmy awards for his news commentaries on Fox in the 1990s, and was the film critic for CBS in Chicago for three years in the early 2000s. He won the National Headliner Award as the top newspaper columnist in the country in 1992, and has been voted best columnist in Illinois by the Associated Press on numerous occasions.
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