Ann Curry is an American television news journalist, photojournalist, and co-anchor on NBC's morning television program Today. She is the former news anchor on Today, a role she began in March 1997, and was the host of Dateline NBC from 2005-2011. Curry is a Board Member at the International Women's Media Foundation. Curry was born in Guam to Bob Curry, of Cherokee, French, German, Scottish and Irish descent from Pueblo, Colorado, and Hiroe Nagase, originally from Japan. Her American 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 military base in Sasebo. Later she moved to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School. She graduated with a BA in Journalism from 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 software executive, Brian Ross, whom she met in college.
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