Ann Curry Birthplace

Ann Curry Birthplace, Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American television personality, news journalist and photojournalist. In June 2012, she became the National and International Correspondent/Anchor for NBC News and the Anchor at Large for the Today show. She was co-anchor of Today from June 9, 2011 to June 28, 2012 and the program's news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-anchor. She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011.

Curry was born in Guam to Bob Curry, an American from Pueblo, Colorado who is of Cherokee, French, German, Scottish and Irish descent, and Hiroe Nagase, who is from Japan. Her father, a career Navy man, met her mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following the Second World War. The U.S. military initially did not allow the marriage, but her father returned to Japan two years later to marry Nagase.

Curry lived in Japan for several years as a child, attending the Ernest J. King School on the United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki. Later she moved to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School. She graduated with a BA in journalism at the University of Oregon in 1978.

Curry was raised Roman Catholic by her mother, who was a convert to the religion.

Curry is married to Brian Ross, whom she met in college. This Brian Ross is a software executive and is not Brian Ross (journalist). They have a daughter, McKenzie, and a son, William Walker Curry Ross. The family lives in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Curry is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women's Media Foundation.

Ann Curry "professional torture"

Ann Curry's emotional exit from NBC's "Today" was apparently every bit as harrowing as it looked on TV.

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Ann Curry NBC News Boston bombings

Ann Curry joined NBC News' coverage of Monday's horrific bombings in Boston with a report during the network's primetime one-hour special anchored by Brian Williams.

Curry, who has had a diminished presence on the network since leaving the "Today" show in 2012, interviewed Boston University employee Dan Mercurio, who finished the race moments before the blasts went off. They spoke through video chat.

"I can't help but feel that you seem to be in a state of shock," Curry said.

"It was the scariest thing I've ever seen. We were 30-40 yards away from a bomb that went of in Boston," he said, fighting back tears.

Since leaving "Today," Curry has been working with her own production team at NBC News as a national and international correspondent. She reported live from Aurora, Colorado after the devastating mass shooting at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises." She also reported on Hurricane Sandy and the tragic mass shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.