Bianna Golodryga Biography

Bianna Golodryga is an American anchor and global affairs analyst working at CNN. She has been working at the network since joining in 2017.

Bianna Golodryga Career

Golodryga serves as a fill-in anchor and the senior global affairs analyst at CNN based in New York. She joined the network serving as a part-time contributor. Since she joined CNN, she has made contributions to several high-profile events and stories including the President’s historic 2018 summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and Mueller investigation.

Prior to joining CNN, she worked at CBS News where she served as the morning co-anchor. While at CBS News, she held exclusive interviews with several well-known people including an exclusive with the CEO of Huawei, his first with a U.S. journalist. Prior to serving as an anchor, she previously served as a fill-in-anchor on the CBS Evening News as well as other network broadcasts including CBSN, the division’s 24/7 digital streaming network, Sunday Morning, and Face the Nation.

Golodryga also served as a correspondent at CBS News and covered the August 2017 Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. She also led the CBS News team in covering the funeral of First Lady Barbara Bush and the Las Vegas concert shooting. Prior to that, she worked at Yahoo News where she served as the news and finance anchor. Prior to that, she previously worked at ABC News where she co-anchored “Good Morning America’s” weekend edition.

Golodryga started her journalism career in 2001 at CNBC where she served as a bureau producer for the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to transitioning into a journalism career, she previously worked in the financial services sector. She has also won several awards including the University of Texas at Austin Pro Bene Meritis Award, the Keystone Policy Center Leadership Award, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program, Good Morning America.

Golodryga went to the University of Texas at Austin where she attained her bachelor’s degree in Russian/East European and Eurasian Studies and a minor in economics. She is also very fluent in Russian as well as English. Whenever she is not working, she enjoys spending her free time with her family and friends.

Bianna Golodryga Age

Golodryga is 45 years old. She was born Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga on 15 June 1978 in Causeni, Moldova. She celebrates her birthday on the 15th of June every year.

Bianna Golodryga Height

Golodryga stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.64 m).

Bianna Golodryga Family

Golodryga, the only child of Zhanna and Vitaly Golodryga, was born to a working-class family of Bessarabian Jews in Căuşeni, Moldova’s Soviet Socialist Republic (now independent Moldova). In 1980, her family fled the Soviet Union as political refugees, each with $75, when she was 18 months old.

Since originally moving to Galveston, Texas, they settled in Houston, Texas. Since then, she has returned only once to Moldova, visiting her grandparents and cousins in 1988. In Houston, her grandma followed them. Her mother is Phillips 66’s chief digital and administrative officer and previously served as Hess Corporation’s chief information officer and her father, a mechanical engineer, was DuPont’s consultant.

Bianna Golodryga Husband

In September 2010, Golodryga married Peter R. Orszag, former Head of the Obama Administration Office of Strategy and Budget, and Chief Financial Officer of Lazard. Orszag celebrates his birthday on the 16th of December annually. They’ve a stepdaughter, Leila, a stepson, Josh, a son, Jake, and a daughter, Maia.

Leila was born on 26th February 2000 and is 24 years old. Josh was born on 17th February 2002 and is 22 years old. Jake was born on 1st April 2012 and is 12 years old. Maia was born on 8th May 2016 and is 7 years old.

Bianna Golodryga Net Worth

Golodryga has an estimated net worth of $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through being a senior global affairs analyst and fill-in anchor.

Bianna Golodryga Salary

Golodryga earns an annual salary ranging from $40,000 – $ 110,500.

CNN

Golodryga works at CNN where she works alongside other famous CNN anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Roland Martin
2. Sara Sidner
3. Erin Mclaughlin
4. Alex Marquardt
5. Christi Paul
6. Bob Van Dillen
7. Reynolds Wolf
8. Kirsten Powers
9. Midwin Charles
10. Anderson Cooper
11. Ryan Browne
12. Pamela Brown
13. Gloria Borger

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