Biography

Clarissa Ward was born on January 31, 1980 in London, England, UK. She is a writer, known for 60 Minutes (1968), CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (2011) and ABC News Nightline (1979). She has been married to Philipp von Bernstorff since November 2016. They have three children.

Pronounces penultimate syllable of -ative suffix with a schwa and certain words like the noun "record" as "wreck-cord," both in the British manner, unlike other American journalists, possibly as a nod to her being half-British.