By: Jesse Patterson

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Family: Vieira marries an Emmy-award winning
CBS news journalist Richard M. Cohen on June 14,
1986. She has three children, Gabriel Anthony
Cohen - Son
Lily Max Cohen – Daughter and Benjamin Edwin
Cohen - Son and currently lives in Irvington in Westchester
County, New York. Mary Louisa Elsie Rosa
Silveira Vieira and Dr. Edwin Vieira both first generation Portuguese Americans also known as her parents. All four of Vieira's grandparents were from the Azores. Youngest of four children with three older brothers. They were all raised Roman
Catholic.

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Hometown: East Providence, Rhode Island.
Education: Attended Lincoln Schools, An all girls school in
Providence. Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in
English from Tufts University.
Career Timeline: 1985-1989 West 57 th , 1989-1993 60 Minutes
Correspondent, 1992-1993 CBS Morning News Co-Anchor,
1993-1997 Turning Point Correspondent, 1997-2006 The View
Moderator, 2002-present Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Host,
2006-present Dateline NBC contributing anchor, September
2006-June 2011 Today Co-Host, June 2011-present NBC News special Correspondent.
Type of Journalism: Political, Entertainment.

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In 2006, Meredith received the P.T. Barnum award from Tufts University for her exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.
Vieira is famous for being the Co-Anchor of the today show and also for being the host of Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire.
She has hosted the Academy Awards pre-show for
ABC.
She was also the former spokesperson for Bayer.
In 2010 Vieira appeared in the film Get Him To
The Greek.
Vieira has also made appearances on Chumdog
Millionaire and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Meredith had brief appearances in various scenes in the Broadway show “Thoroughly
Modern Millie” in 2003.
Meredith played a cameo as the host of a proposed game show in the 2004 game show of the Stepford wives.
Hosted the featurettes that are included on the first season DVDs of the ABC television show
The Desperate Housewives.
Made a cameo role as the news reporter in
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

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Made a cameo appearance in the Doctor Who episode “The Wedding Of River Song”.
Made an appearance as Broomsy Witch in
Shrek forever After.
Guest appearances in the NBC sitcom “30
Rock” in the episodes “Greenzo” and “Larry
King”.
First guest appearance on The View since she left on Monday, Oct 8, 2007.

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Vieira is apart of many news programs that contain political and entertaining news. She also includes drama and serious issues going on in our world today. The programs she belongs to are the Today show, CBS Evening
News, Dateline NBC, ABC News. Meredith covered the Beijing Olympics, The Vancouver
Olympics and the Barack Obama Inauguration.
Recently this year Vieira said goodbye the
Today show.

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Meredith covered the Beijing Olympics, The
Vancouver Olympics and the Barack Obama
Inauguration. Recently this year Vieira said goodbye the Today show.

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Meredith has supported the following charities:
Jumpstart, Love our Children USA, Save The
Children, Abuse, AIDS, At-
Risk/Disadvantaged Youths, Children,
Disaster Relief, Education, Family/Parent
Support, Literacy, Poverty.

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1988- Meredith won an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a continuing new story segment, outstanding informational, cultural or historic programming and outstanding investigative journalism.
1991- Meredith won an Emmy for outstanding informational, cultural or historic programming.
Nominated in 1998 and 1999 for a daytime emmy for outstanding talk show host.

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Finally in 2007 she won the daytime Emmy for outstanding game show host and talk show host.
Meredith has been the game show host for
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire every since
Regis left.

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