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Name: Anderson Cooper
Real Name: Anderson Hays Cooper
Birthday: June 3, 1967
Hometown: New York City, New York
Status: In a Relationship with Ben Maisani
Kids: None
Parents: Wyatt Emory Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

Claim To Fame: Primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°.
Debut: Cooper entered Myanmar with a forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government; he eventually sold his homemade segments to Channel One, a youth-oriented news program.
Recent Activity: CNN anchor, 60 Minutes correspondent, guest host on Live With Regis and Kelly, clue giver on Jeopardy

Fun Fact # 1: From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Macy's.
Fun Fact # 2: His older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide at age 23 by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of his mother's New York penthouse apartment.
Fun Fact # 3: He has no formal journalistic education.

A Quote From Anderson Cooper: "I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it."

Also Known For: Formerly held positions as World News Now co-anchor, host of reality show The Mole, and NewsNight co-anchor

Education/Other Skill(s): Cooper studied Political Science and International Relations at Yale College, interned at the Central Intelligence Agency, briefly studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.

Anderson Cooper's Date Ladder: Ben Maisani

Website: CNN Blog - AC 360
Twitter: andersoncooper
Facebook: AC 360 Facebook

Awards Won by Anderson Cooper:
2005: National Headliners Award, for his tsunami coverage
2005: Emmy Award, for his coverage of Princess Diana's funeral
2006: Emmy for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Long Form, for report on the famine in Niger
2006: Silver Plaque from Chicago International Film Festival, for report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian civil war
2006: Bronze Telly, for coverage of famine in Somalia

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