Rachel Maddow Biography
Rachel Maddow is an American Emmy award-winning anchor/host working at MSNBC. She serves as the anchor of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and serves as the cable network special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams.
Rachel Maddow Age
Maddow is 48 years as of 2021. She was born on April 1, 1973, in Castro Valley, California, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 1st of April every year.
Rachel Maddow Height
Maddow stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.80m) tall and weighs 66 kg.
Rachel Maddow Family
Maddow’s father is Rоbеrt Маddоw who happens to be a former United States Аіr fоrсе lawyer while her mother’s name is Еlаіnе Маddоw who serves as a school administrator. She has a brother named Dаvіd Маddоw.
Rachel Maddow Wife
Maddow is openly lesbian and her partner is known as Susan Mikula who is an artist and photographer. The couple met in 1999, while she was working on her doctoral dissection.
Rachel Maddow Net Worth
Maddow has an estimated net worth of $ 25 million which she has earned through her career as an anchor.
Rachel Maddow Salary
Maddow earns an annual salary of $7 Million.
Rachel Maddow Education
She attended Stanford University where she attained a bachelor’s degree in public policy, additionally, she also attended Oxford University where she attained a doctorate in political science. Furthermore, she is the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States. In March 2012, her book “DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power” debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list.
Rachel Maddow Career
Maddow serves at MSNBC as a news anchor of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and serves as the cable network special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams. In MSNBC history “The Rachel Maddow Show” was the most successful show launch which immediately boosted ratings in its time period when it debuted in September 2008.
In 2009, “The Rachel Maddow Show” was named by the Washington Post as one of the top shows for over ten years. Additionally, she was named by The Los Angeles Times as the “Best of Television 2008” and as a “Breakout Star of 2008” by The Washington Post, she was named one of the “Top Ten Political Newcomers of 2008” by Politico.com.
In January 2008, she was named an MSNBC political analyst. While she served as the host on Air America Radio, was when she first gained national fame from its inception in 2004. She worked for Massachusetts, WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts, and for WRNX in Holyoke in addition to joining AAR. She hosted a radio talk show that airs on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010. For her broadcasting work, she received many Emmy Awards and in 2021 received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her book Blowout
She was awarded the 2012 John Steinbeck Award from the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose University and honored by the Interfaith Alliance with the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award. In 2012, she received two Gracie Allen Awards including Outstanding Host – News/Non-fiction. For two consecutive times, “The Rachel Maddow Show” has been nominated for the “Outstanding Achievement in News and Information” category by the Television Critics Association. Additionally in 2010, the show took home a GLAAD award.
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
Maddow is working at MSNBC where she works alongside other famous MSNBC anchors and reporters including;
- Lawrence O’Donnell
- Kelly O’Donnell
- Kristen Welker
- Peter Alexander
- Kasie Hunt
- Monica Alba
- Carol Lee
- Garret Haake
- Savannah Guthrie
- Marrianna Sotomayor
- Mike Memoli
- Steve Patterson
- Morgan Radford
- Lester Holt
- Geoff Bennett
- Steve Schmidt
- Richard Lui
- Cynthia McFadden
- Ali Velshi
- Kate Snow
- Jacob Soboroff
- Heldi Przybyla
- Josh Lederman
- Leigh Ann Caldwell
- Tamron Hall
- Jason Johnson
- Eugene Robinson
- Nicolle Wallace
- Chuck Todd
- Steve Kornack
- Yasmin Vossoughian
- Joshua Johnson
- Lindsey Reiser
- Alicia Menendez
- Chris Jansing
- Savannah Sellers
- Brian Williams
- Alex Witt
- Cori Coffin
- Kendis Gibson
- Ayman Mohyeldin
- Katy Tur
- Andrea Mitchell
- Craig Melvin
- Hallie Jackson
- Stephanie Ruhle
Rachel Maddow Social Media Platforms
Maddow is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, and Twitter. She has over 10M followers on Twitter, and over 498k followers on Instagram.