Faith Salie

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Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American radio presenter , journalist , actress and comedian . She is known for her radio show Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie as well as for her television roles Caitlin in Auf Worse And Eternal and Eleanor in Significant Others .

family

Salie is the daughter of Robert D Salie and Gail Coley Salie. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Atlanta , Georgia with her two older brothers Douglas (the elder) and David.

Salie married screenwriter and film producer Nick Holly, younger brother of actress Lauren Holly , in June 2005 . The couple divorced in August 2009. In October 2011, Salie and John Semel married in Rome , Italy .

education

Salie graduated from North Springs High School in Fulton County , Georgia (now Sandy Springs , Georgia) in 1989 . She was rejected by the universities of Yale University , Princeton University and Brown University and so she enrolled at Northwestern University instead , later switching to Harvard University . She passed this with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in history and modern literature in France and England . She later earned an M.Phil in Modern Literature in England from Oxford University .

Career

Salie is best known for her television series roles Caitlin in To Worse And Forever (1998-1999) and Eleanor in Significant Others (2004). She appeared in a number of other series such as A Terribly Nice Family (1996), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997/1998), Sex and the City (2000), Los Angeles Police Report (2003) and Treehugger TV (2010) . As a stand-up comedian , she appeared in various shows and was presenter and co- executive producer of the 300-episode radio show Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie . In doing so, she conducted over 1,000 interviews with well-known people, including President Jimmy Carter , Lorne Michaels , Sir Anthony Hopkins , Slash , Elizabeth Edwards , Norah Jones , Oliver Sacks and Tom Brokaw .

In 2013 she and numerous colleagues won the Daytime Emmy Award in the “Outstanding Morning Programming” category for CBS News Sunday Morning .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2013: Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Morning Programming category for CBS News Sunday Morning .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Faith Salie, John Semel on nytimes.com. October 13, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Gail Coley . Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ Faith Salie and Nick Holly on nytimes.com. June 5, 2005. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Nick Holly's biography on imdb.com. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Biography of Faith Salie on imdb.com. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b information on faithsalie.com. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  7. ↑ So What Do You Do, Faith Salie, Host, Fair Game? Interview on mediabistro.com by Dylan Stableford. June 20, 2007. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  8. ↑ a b Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards ( memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on emmyonline.org.
personal data
SURNAME Salie, Faith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salie, Faith Coley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radio presenter, journalist, actress and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts