Eleanor Mondale

Political Relative / Actor

Eleanor Mondale is the daughter of Walter Mondale, vice president under Jimmy Carter and later U.S. ambassador to Japan. Eleanor Mondale began her television career at a Minneapolis local affiliate, then moved up to reporting for the E! Online cable channel and eventually the CBS show This Morning. She has also had small roles in a few movies and TV shows. In 1998 she gained extra notoriety when an Oval Office meeting she had with President Bill Clinton was mentioned in the Kenneth Starr report. In June of 2005 she revealed that she was being treated for life-threatening brain tumors and that she had been given six months to live; however, in August of 2006 she announced that the tumors had disappeared. That same month she began co-hosting a radio talk show on Minneapolis radio station WCCO.

Extra credit: Mondale married Minnesota musician and composer Chan Poling in June of 2005; according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it was Mondale's third marriage.

Other political daughters include Chelsea Clinton, the Bush Twins and Caroline Kennedy... Other actor/broadcaster hybrids include Andrea Thompson and Ronald Reagan.