Andrea Catherine Catherwood was born on 27 November 1967 and is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist.
15 Facts About Andrea Catherwood
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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 presented The Romper Room from 1964 to 1969 as Miss Adrienne.
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Adrienne Catherwood was appointed an MBE in 2004 for her work with the charity Action Medical Research.
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Andrea Catherwood's 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.
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Aged 18, Andrea Catherwood made a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the 18 years of troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Andrea Catherwood travelled extensively throughout Asia, and in Burma interviewed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Andrea Catherwood 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.
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Andrea Catherwood produced a number of reports, which received wide coverage in the British press.
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Andrea Catherwood was reporting from inside the prison at the beginning of the Taliban prisoners uprising when one exploded a concealed grenade that killed five people.
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Andrea Catherwood left ITV News in September 2006, to front The Sunday Edition, ITV's new political show with Andrew Rawnsley.
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In October 2009 Andrea Catherwood joined Bloomberg Television as part of the news station's relaunch, where she anchored Briefing, The Pulse, and Last Word.
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Andrea Catherwood is a weekly contributor to This Morning on ITV, as well as writing for The Mail on Sunday.
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Andrea Catherwood presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, as well as You and Yours, and is a regular stand-in presenter of The Media Show on Radio 4.
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In October 2022, Andrea Catherwood began presenting Feedback on BBC Radio 4; the programme holds the BBC to account by allowing the radio listeners to express their opinions.
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Andrea Catherwood married lawyer Graham Smith on 3 July 2002 at a private family ceremony in Kenmare, in the south-west of Ireland.