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Faith Salie
Age: 38
Height: 5' 5"
Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Born: Apr. 14th, 1971
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BIOGRAPHY: Faith Salie was the host and executive producer of the National Public Radio show Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie. During its 300 episode run, she conducted over 1000 interviews with the likes of President Carter, Lorne Michaels, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Slash, Elizabeth Edwards, Norah Jones, Oliver Sacks, Tom Brokaw, and a family of champion elk callers.
Faith has asked:
instrument of soft power
couple's intimacy
blackhole
represent the US government
Louis Armstrong imitations
Dobbs
On television, Faith hosts the Sundance Channel's coverage of the Sundance Film Festival, conducting interviews with filmmakers and actors such as Chris Rock, Uma Thurman, Billy Bob Thornton, The Doors, Kristen Wiig, Mo'Nique, and Paul Giamatti. Faith was also one of the stars of the critically-acclaimed improvisational sitcom, Significant Others on Bravo. She has appeared in numerous sitcoms and dramas--from a memorable turn in gold lamé on Sex and the City to reaching the arcane iconic status of "tradable life form" for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans.
Faith is a monthly contributor to O, the Oprah Magazine, as an ethics expert and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, taking on Randy Cohen, The New York Times ethicist.
As a commentator on politics and current events, Faith has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN, and has contributed to the National Public Radio shows Tell Me More and The Takeaway. For the latter, she covered both the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions. She serves as one of the moderators for the World Science Festival, leading panels with scientists such as Richard Leakey, VS Ramachandran, and Ray Kurzweil. To justify her subscriptions to Star and US Weekly, Faith offers pop-culture punditry on a variety of VH-1 shows and is a regular on the late-night Fox News show Red Eye.
Faith has regularly performed as a stand-up comedian at the Hollywood Improv. She is also a television writer and has created/executive produced pilots for Fox, VH-1, and the Oxygen Network.
Faith is a Rhodes scholar who graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. She completed an M.Phil. in Literature at Oxford University. Faith was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, which means she uses "wicked" as an adverb and also says "y'all."
Faith's hobbies include baking white trash treats and giving them away before she can eat them.
TRIVIA:
- Daughter-in-law of 'Grant Holly' (qv).
- Her brother, David Salie, served as Director of House Party Fundraising for the 2004 'Howard Dean (I)' (qv) presidential campaign.
- Hobbies include baking and giving away baked goods before she can eat them.
- Is a Rhodes Scholar; received a Master's degree from Oxford University.
- Sister-in-law of 'Lauren Holly' (qv).
- Cousin of casting director 'Bonnie Gillespie (I)' (qv).
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa
- She originally enrolled as an undergraduate at Northwestern University after failing to be accepted at Yale, and then transferred to Harvard. She is a 1989 graduate of North Springs High School in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
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