Ann Curry Biography

Ann Curry was a reporter and news anchor for NBC television's Today program from 1997 until 2011, when she was promoted to be the show's co-host (with Matt Lauer). Curry was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and an American sailor, and spent her early childhood on a naval base in Japan. She then grew up in Ashland, Oregon, and graduated from the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1978. Curry was a TV reporter in Oregon at Medford's KTVL (1979-80) and Portland's KGW (1980-84), then spent six years in Los Angeles at KCBS before being hired by NBC in 1990. Since then Curry has been a news anchor and correspondent, reporting on foreign affairs and natural disasters and interviewing the likes of Lance Armstrong, Laura Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She joined the Today cast in 1997 as a news anchor, and became co-host of NBC's Dateline in 2005. Ann Curry replaced Meredith Vieira as co-host of Today in 2011.