25 Facts About Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.

Christiane Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi Christiane Amanpour and Anne Patricia Hill.

Christiane Amanpour was baptised at the Church of Saint Benedict in Ealing and was raised in Tehran until the age of eleven.

Christiane Amanpour's father was Shia Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic.

Christiane Amanpour's father worked as an airline executive for Iran Air and later lost his job and fortune after the Iran Revolution in 1979.

Christiane Amanpour first attended the Convent of the Holy Cross, an all-girls preparatory 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.

Christiane Amanpour worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer.

In 1983, Christiane Amanpour was hired by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, as an entry-level desk assistant.

Christiane Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars for reporting from conflict areas.

From 1992 to 2010, Christiane Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent.

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.

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.

Christiane Amanpour has conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel and actors Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.

Christiane Amanpour has responded to the criticism leveled on her reporting from the war in the former Yugoslavia for "lack of neutrality", stating:.

Shortly after, in April 2019, Qassemi claimed that Christiane Amanpour had uncovered their deception.

On 18 March 2010, Christiane Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week.

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 maintained a reporting role at ABC News.

Christiane Amanpour vehemently responded that she could not agree to the "unprecedented and unexpected condition" and later reflected on the controversial situation, declaring that:.

Christiane Amanpour's program continues to be seen on television on PBS at many stations in various areas of the US, including at least four TV stations in the greater Los Angeles region of southern California.

Christiane Amanpour contacted the father of the family to personally apologise for misspeaking and subsequently did the same on her show.

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.

On 9 August 1998, Christiane Amanpour married Phillip James Rubin at the Roman Catholic parish of Saint Stephen in Bracciano, Italy.

In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper's Bazaar magazine article entitled "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover".

In May 2013, Rubin announced that the family would return to London to work on several projects, and in October of the same year, Christiane Amanpour stated that she and her husband would be relocating to London permanently:.

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.