Bianna Golodryga Bio, Wiki, CNN, Age, Education, Height, Family, Husband, Children, and Career

Bianna Golodryga Biography

Bianna Golodryga is a skilled American journalist currently working at CNN as an anchor. She is the senior global affairs analyst and fill-in anchor for CNN based in New York.

Bianna Golodryga Age

How old is Golodryga? She is 44 years old as of 2024. Golodryga was born on 15 June 1978 in Causeni, Moldova. She celebrates her birthday on the 15th of June every year.

Bianna Golodryga Education

She enrolled in the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Though she attended the School she was interested in becoming a journalist instead of an actress. After performing in a play about AIDS written by her teacher she was inspired to look closer at what was going on in the world.

She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a degree in Russian/East European & Eurasian studies and a minor in economics in May 2000. Golodryga is fluent in Russian and knows a few phrases of Romanian (spoken in Moldova).

Bianna Golodryga Height|Weight

Golodryga stands on an average height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs around 60kgs

Bianna Golodryga Family

Golodryga was born on 15 June 1978 to a working-class family of Bessarabian Jews in Căușeni, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now independent Moldova). She is the only child of Zhanna and Vitaly Golodryga.

When she was 18 months old in 1980, her family left the Soviet Union as political refugees, each with $75. The family settled in Houston, Texas after initially moving to Galveston, Texas. She has returned to Moldova only once since then in 1988 while visiting her grandparents and cousins.

Bianna’s grandmother joined them in Houston that same year. Her mother is the Chief information officer of Hess Corporation and her father who is a mechanical engineer was a consultant for DuPont.

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Bianna Golodryga Husband

Golodryga is happily married to Peter R. Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Obama Administration and the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard. They tied the knot in September 2010. The couple has been blessed with a son Jake Spencer Orszag and a daughter Maia Isabel Orszag born in 2016.

Bianna Golodryga Children

Golodryga and her husband Peter are blessed with a son Jake Spencer Orszag and a daughter Maia Isabel Orszag born in 2016, hence she has not disclosed information regarding her children. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Bianna Golodryga CNN

Previously, Golodryga served as co-anchor for “CBS This Morning” before joining CNN full-time. In that capacity, she led the network’s coverage of President George H.W. Bush’s funeral and conducted numerous news-making interviews, including an exclusive with the CEO of Huawei, his first with a U.S. journalist.

Prior to that, she served at CBS Evening News and appeared on other network broadcasts including Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, and CBSN, the division’s 24/7 digital streaming network. Additionally, as a correspondent for CBS in August 2017, Golodryga reported from her hometown of Houston, where she covered the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. She has led CBS News coverage of such huge breaking news as the Las Vegas concert shooting and the funeral of First Lady Barbara Bush.

Golodryga also joined CNN part-time as a contributor in 2017. Her skills in financial news and Russian political affairs contributed to CNN’s coverage of everything from stock market volatility, the President’s historic 2018 summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to the Mueller investigation. Prior to that, Golodryga was the news and finance anchor for Yahoo News and before that, she co-anchored “Good Morning America’s” weekend edition, as well as served as ABC News’ Business Correspondent.

Bianna Golodryga Career

Golodryga started her broadcasting career in television news in 2001 as a bureau producer from the New York Stock Exchange for the cable news channel, CNBC. Apart from her anchoring, Golodryga has also served in the financial services sector.

She has been awarded several awards and recognition, including the Keystone Policy Center Leadership Award, the University of Texas at Austin Pro Bene Meritis Award, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program, Good Morning America.

Golodryga attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Russian/East European and Eurasian Studies and a minor in economics. She is fluent in Russian.

Bianna Golodryga Beyonce

Once when there were controversies about Beyonce lying about her age, she confirmed several years ago she went to high school with Beyonce in their original Texas, which some critics took as supposed ‘evidence’ Beyonce was older.

Bianna Golodryga Salary|Net Worth

She has an estimated salary ranging between $70,000 – $125,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1 Million -$5 Million which she earned from her broadcasting career.

Bianna Golodryga Social Media Platforms

She is very active on social media platforms and has over 246.9k followers on Twitter, 41.4k followers on Instagram, and over 4k followers on Facebook.

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