Christiane Amanpour is a CNN anchor and host of 'Amanpour and Company' and 'Amanpour: Life and Death Row'. Christiane is the daughter of Austrian-born journalist and author Peter Amanpour and American actress Marisa Berenson. Raised in New York City, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a degree in English Literature. She began her career as a news anchor at PBS's Washington, D.C., affiliate WETA-TV
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Christiane has covered nine consecutive U.S. presidential elections as well as several major international events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Persian Gulf War. She has also interviewed many prominent figures such as Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, and George W.
Bush and has conducted exclusive interviews for her show with Nelson Mandela and Yasir Arafat.