Soledad O'Brien
| Soledad O'Brien | |
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O'Brien at Marquette University
February 7, 2008 |
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| Born |
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien September 19, 1966 St. James, New York U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Brad Raymond (1995‑present) |
| Children | 4 |
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien (born September 19, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. O'Brien is a television anchor and correspondent who has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera America, and HBO. From 2003 to 2007, O'Brien co-anchored CNN's American Morning. From 2012 to 2013, O'Brien was the anchor of CNN's morning news program, Starting Point.
In 2013, O'Brien became special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program, America Tonight. Also in 2013, O'Brien became a correspondent on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Currently, O'Brien is the anchor for Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a weekly show on Hearst Television. She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multi-platform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013.
"My parents were both immigrants—my mother from Cuba, my father from Australia. Both attended daily Mass at the church near campus. Every day my father would offer my mother a ride. Every day, she declined. Finally, she said yes. One year later, the day after Christmas, the two of them were married."
O'Brien was born and raised in St. James, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island to Edward O'Brien, a mechanical engineering professor at SUNY Stony Brook, and Estela O'Brien (née Marquetti y Mendieta), a French and English teacher at Smithtown High School West. Her parents were both immigrants and met while students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father is from Toowoomba, Queensland in Australia and is of three quarters Irish and one quarter Scottish descent. O'Brien's mother is from Havana, Cuba, and is of Afro-Cuban descent. When she was 14 years old, she came to the United States sponsored by Oblate Sisters of Providence of Maryland.
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