Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.
26 Facts About Christiane Amanpour
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Christiane Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Christiane Amanpour.
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Christiane Amanpour's father was Shi'ite Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic.
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Christiane Amanpour attended Holy Cross Convent, an all-girls school in Chalfont Saint Peter, Buckinghamshire, and then, at the age of 16, she attended New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, Essex.
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Christiane Amanpour worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer.
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Christiane Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina.
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Christiane Amanpour has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe, Africa and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others.
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Christiane Amanpour has conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel and actors Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.
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Christiane Amanpour was assuming an omniscience which no journalist has.
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Christiane Amanpour has responded to the criticism leveled on her reporting from the war in the former Yugoslavia for "lack of neutrality", stating:.
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Shortly after, in April 2019, Qassemi claimed that Christiane Amanpour had uncovered their deception.
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On 18 March 2010, Christiane Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week.
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On 13 December 2011, ABC announced Christiane Amanpour would be leaving her post as anchor of ABC News' This Week on 8 January 2012, and returning to CNN International, where she had previously worked for 27 years, and maintaining a reporting role at ABC News.
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In September 2022, Christiane Amanpour axed a scheduled interview with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi in New York City during the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, following a last-minute demand that she wear a headscarf while filming.
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In late 2013, Christiane Amanpour raised the argument for intervention in Syria against the Assad government, which has been fighting against Syrian opposition forces.
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Christiane Amanpour has appeared on several news programmes in the UK in which she has criticized the Obama administration for its non-interventionist approach to Syria.
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Christiane Amanpour's program continues to be seen on television on PBS at many stations in various areas of the US, including at least 4 TV stations in the greater Los Angeles region of southern California.
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Christiane Amanpour is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Center for Public Integrity, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
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From 1998 to 2018, Christiane Amanpour was married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to former President Barack Obama.
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Christiane Amanpour is a relative by marriage of General Nader Jahanbani, who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.
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In June 2021, Christiane Amanpour announced that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, had "major successful surgery to remove it", and would undergo several months of chemotherapy.
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Christiane Amanpour appeared in the television series Gilmore Girls as herself in the finale, "Bon Voyage".
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In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper's Bazaar magazine article entitled "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover".
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Christiane Amanpour played herself in newscasts in the films Iron Man 2 and Pink Panther 2.
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In 2014, Christiane Amanpour narrated "Women in War", an episode of season 2 of Makers: Women Who Make America.
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In 2016 Christiane Amanpour was a castaway on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs.