Bianna Golodryga Biography
Bianna Golodryga is an American media personality serving as an anchor and senior global affairs analyst at CNN based in New York. She anchors One World with Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga on weekdays at noon ET on CNN International and CNN Max., a new seven-day-a-week/24-hour service on Max, Warner Bros. Previously, she served as co-anchor for CBS This Morning.
Bianna Golodryga Age
Golodryga is 45 years old as of May 2024. She was born on June 15, 1978, in Căușeni, Moldova.
Bianna Golodryga Height
She stands at a height of 1.64 m.
Bianna Golodryga Nationality
She holds American nationality.
Bianna Golodryga Education
Golodryga attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston but was interested in becoming a journalist rather than pursuing an acting career. Her interest in current events was sparked after she performed in a play about AIDS, written by her teacher Sharon Ferranti, who she considers a major inspiration. In May 2000, Golodryga graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Russian/East European and Eurasian studies and a minor in economics.
Bianna Golodryga Parents
Bianna is the only child of Zhanna and Vitaly Golodryga. Her mother, Zhanna, is the chief digital and administrative officer for Phillips 66. Previously, she held the position of chief information officer at Hess Corporation. Bianna’s father, Vitaly, is a mechanical engineer who worked as a consultant for DuPont.
Bianna was born into a working-class family of Bessarabian Jews in the town of Căușeni, Soviet Moldova. When she was 18 months old in 1980, her family left the Soviet Union as political refugees with only $150. They first settled in Galveston, Texas, before eventually making their home in nearby Houston. Bianna has visited her birthplace only once, in 1988, to see her grandparents and cousins; her grandmother later joined the family in Houston. She is fluent in the Russian language.
Bianna Golodryga Wedding/Husband
Bianna is married to her husband Peter Richard Orszag, the CEO of Lazard, a financial services firm, and the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Barack Obama administration. The couple tied the knot in September 2010 at Capitale, an event space in New York. Rabbi Sarah H. Reines officiated.
Peter, 55, graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar. He is the son of Reba Karp Orszag and Steven Alan Orszag of New Haven, Conn. His mother, who is retired, was the president and owner of Cambridge Hydrodynamics, a research and development company in Princeton. His father is a math professor at Yale.
Peter’s first wife was Cameron Rachel Hamill. They had two children before divorcing. In 2009, he fathered a child with his former girlfriend, Claire Milonas, the daughter of shipping magnate Spiros Milonas. Peter also has a son and a daughter with his wife Bianna. In 2014, a judge ruled in Orszag’s favor in a child support case brought by his first wife.
Bianna Golodryga CNN
Golodryga is a CNN anchor and senior global affairs analyst. Based in New York she anchors One World with Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga on weekdays at noon ET on CNN International and CNN Max, a new seven-day-a-week/24-hour service on Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform.
Before joining CNN full-time, Golodryga served as co-anchor for CBS This Morning.
In 2017, Golodryga also joined CNN part-time as a contributor. Her expertise 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. Previously, Golodryga was the news and finance anchor for Yahoo News. Before that, she co-anchored the Good Morning America weekend edition, as well as serving as ABC News’ Business Correspondent.
Golodryga began her career in television news in 2001 as a bureau producer from the New York Stock Exchange for the cable news channel, CNBC. Before her television career, Golodryga worked in the financial services sector.
Golodryga has received 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.
Bianna Golodryga Salary
Her salary is under review.
Bianna Golodryga Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth ranging from $3 million to $5 million as of May 2024, mainly from her successful journalism career.
