- Born
- Birth nameConstance Yu-Hwa Chung
- Connie Chung was born on August 20, 1946 in Washington D.C., USA. She is an actress and writer, known for House of Cards (2013), Murphy Brown (1988) and The Undoing (2020). She has been married to Maury Povich since December 2, 1984. They have one child.
- SpouseMaury Povich(December 2, 1984 - present) (1 child)
- Youngest of ten children, five of whom died in China. Josephine Chen is one of her older sisters.
- The only person in history (male or female) to have served as a substitute anchor for all three network nightly newscasts (NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas (1970), CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1941) and World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)); as well as all three network morning newscasts (Today (1952), CBS Mornings (1987) and Good Morning America (1975)).
- Met her future husband, Maury Povich, in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, DC (WTTG), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.
- Son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted in 1995
- She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson, after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit, after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.
- I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
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