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Full Maria Shriver Biography
Maria Owings Shriver (pronounced: /'ʃɹaɪvɚ/) (born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist and the wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and, as such, the First Lady of California.
In her book Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World, Shriver says that she became passionate about broadcast journalism after being sent to the back of the campaign plane with the press corps when volunteering for her father's vice presidential race, calling these orders "the best thing that ever happened to me." After her journalism career began with KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she co-anchored the CBS Morning News with Forrest Sawyer from 1985 until 1987, co-anchored Sunday Today and weekend editions of NBC Nightly News from 1987 until 1989, and was a contributing anchor on Dateline NBC from 1989 until 2004. In August of 2003, Shriver took an unpaid leave of absence from NBC News when her husband became a candidate in the 2003 California recall.
Upon her husband's inauguration as the 38th Governor of California, she became the First Lady of California on November 17, 2003. She then returned to reporting, making two more appearances for Dateline NBC.
On February 3, 2004, Shriver told NBC she wished to be "relieved of duties at NBC News," citing the conflict of interest between her role as a journalist and her status as the First Lady of California and her increasing role as an advocate of her husband's administration. NBC News president Neal Shapiro did not refer to Shriver's decision as a resignation, however, and issued a statement calling Shriver's departure "an extended leave of absence."
Shriver has played a minor role in Be Prepared, an episode of the television series That's So Raven as herself promoting a "Preparedness Plan". She also appeared as herself in the film Last Action Hero. On March 23, 2007, Shriver returned to television news as substitute host of panel-discussion talk show Larry King Live on CNN. Shriver moderated discussion of breast cancer and its effects with cancer specialist Dr. Susan Love, musician Sheryl Crow, and other guests.
Shriver announced that she will not return to news media after the excessive media coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
In 1977, Tom Brokaw introduced Maria to Austrian bodybuilder and actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a charity tennis tournament being held at Eunice Kennedy Shriver's home. She married Schwarzenegger on April 26, 1986 in Hyannis, Massachusetts at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church.
They have four children:
- Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger, born December 13, 1989 in Los Angeles, California (Her middle name, Eunice, is the first name of her maternal grandmother.)
- Christina Maria Aurelia Schwarzenegger, born July 23, 1991 in Los Angeles, California (Her first middle name, Maria, is the first name of her mother. Her second middle name, Aurelia, was the first name of her paternal grandmother.)
- Patrick Arnold Schwarzenegger, born September 18, 1993 in Los Angeles, California(His middle name, Arnold, is the first name of his father. His first name, Patrick, comes from his great-grandfather Joseph Patrick Kennedy.)
- Christopher Sargent Shriver Schwarzenegger , born September 27, 1997 in Los Angeles, California (His middle name, Sargent, is the first name of his maternal grandfather.)
Her daughter, Katherine, will graduate from the Brentwood School (Class of 2008) and Christina is attending the Archer School for Girls where she will graduate in 2009. Both boys attend Brentwood also.
On Sundays, Shriver and her family attend mass at St. Monica's Catholic Church. The Schwarzenegger-Shrivers live in their 11,000-square-foot home in Brentwood. They used to own a home in the Pacific Palisades. The family owns vacation homes in Sun Valley, Idaho and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
During her husband's tenure as the Governor of California, Shriver was initially tentative in her role as the Governor's wife. Some speculated that she felt that her husband would not attempt to gain the Governor's seat in the recall election that drove Gray Davis from office. When Arnold announced his candidacy abruptly on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, she played the part of the loyal political spouse. Since Governor Schwarzenegger took office, Maria has visibly supported her husband and has taken on several key initiatives as first lady - raising awareness of the contributions of women to the state, working on practical solutions to end cycles of poverty and encouraging all Californians to engage in acts of service to their communities. As her husband proposed a series of California ballot initiatives in November 2005, she decided to forego any public support of her husband's proposals.
Prior to her work at NBC, Shriver had co-anchored the CBS Morning News. She has won Peabody and Emmy awards and is the author of five best-selling books: What's Heaven, Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World, What's Wrong with Timmy?, What's Happening to Grandpa? and And One More Thing Before You Go. |
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