Eleanor Clift Biography
Eleanor Clift is an American political reporter, author, and television pundit who is best known for being a blogger for The Daily Beast and a contributor to MSNBC. Clift is a board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). She attended Hofstra University and Hunter College.
Eleanor Clift Age
Clift was born Eleanor Roeloffs on July 7, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She is 85 years old.
Eleanor Clift Height
Clift stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Eleanor Clift Family
Clift is the daughter of German immigrants from the island of Föhr in the North Sea. She grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, where her parents used to run a deli in Sunnyside.
Eleanor Clift Husband
Clift has been married twice. She was first married to William Brooks Clift, Jr. from 1919 to 1986, the brother of the actor Montgomery Clift. They had three sons together: Woodbury Blair, Edward Montgomery, and Robert Anderson. Her second marriage was to Tom Brazaitis, in September 1989. Her husband was a Washington columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. They remained together until his death on 30 March 2005 due to kidney cancer.
Eleanor Clift Net Worth
Clift has an estimated net worth of $2.1 million which she has earned from her career as a reporter, author, and television pundit.
Eleanor Clift Career
Clift started her broadcast career on The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C., where she was a Friday week-in-review panelist. Clift became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program. As an actress, Clift has appeared in four movies; Rising Sun (1993) as a talk show panel member, appeared as herself in Dave (1993), Getting Away with Murder (1996), and Independence Day (1996).
In 2009, she was portrayed by actress Mary Ann Burger in the 2009 film Watchmen. She was also portrayed by Jan Hooks on Saturday Night Live. In 2012, she was a keynote speaker at the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Summit, where the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index was unveiled.
Eleanor Clift Newsweek
In 1963 when Clift started her career as a secretary, at Newsweek, and is one of the first female reporters to earn an internship from the secretary pool. Clift left Newsweek briefly in 1985 and went to serve as a White House correspondent for The Los Angeles Times. She has covered every presidential campaign for the magazine since 1976 and was part of Newsweek’s special project team following the 1984, 2000, 2004, and 2008 elections, each of which resulted in a book. She returned to Newsweek in 1986 to cover the Iran-Contra scandal, which embroiled President Reagan and tarnished his administration.
Eleanor Clift The Mclaughlin Group
Clift is a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a nationally syndicated show that she has compared to “a televised food fight”.
Eleanor Clift Books
- War without bloodshed – 1996
- Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling – 2000
- Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment – 2003
- Election 2004 – 2004
- Two Weeks of Life – 2008
- Selecting a President – 2012