Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories.Cooper is the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt Family of New York.
ABC News correspondent from 1995 to 2000.
Son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper
Cooper returned to broadcast news, now on CNN.
He studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi in the 1990s.
Graduated from Yale in 1989 with a BA in political science.
Has a dog named Molly.
Graduated from Dalton School in Manhattan.
During his senior year at Dalton, he left school and drove across South Africa in a truck. He contracted malaria while there and had to be hospitalized.
He waited tables at Mortimers while growing up.
Writes a monthly column for Details magazine.
At the age of 3, Cooper was a guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" on 17 September 1970, when he appeared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Also is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in many other outlets, including Details magazine.
He has been a guest co-host of "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" , filling in for Regis Philbin on several occasions since 2006.
A self-described "news junkie", having been one "since I was in the womb.".
Modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren , Calvin Klein and Macys from age 10 to 13.
Started getting gray hair at the age of 20 and was completely gray by the age of 35.
One of the Top 10 men on Vanity Fairs international best-dressed list, which was published in the magazines April 2004 issue. He appeared again on the international best-dressed list in the magazines September 2006 issue.
Photographed as a baby by Diane Arbus for Harpers Bazaar.
Commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2005 at Kean University and the class of 2006 at Yale University.
Has a pet Welsh Springer Spaniel named Molly.
Named as one of the Sexiest Men Alive in 2005 by People magazine.
He was Number 3 on Playgirl magazines Sexiest Newscasters List in 2004. In second place was Fox News Channels Sean Hannity and in first place was MSNBCs Keith Olbermann.
In October 2005, it was announced that he signed a US $1 million contract to write a memoir for Harper Collins detailing his "life as a journalist and human being in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq and Louisiana/Mississippi" over the previous year. It was entitled Dispatches from the Edge and was released 23 May 2006. Some of Coopers proceeds are being donated to charity. In addition, the book topped the New York Times bestseller list on 18 June 2006.
Interviewed news legend Walter Cronkite at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, in the second installment of a four-part University of Judaism Public Lecture Series (26 February 2007).
He has English, and small amounts of Dutch, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and Welsh, ancestry, as well as a Chilean matrilineal great-great-grandmother (who was of Spanish and Indigenous descent).
Is a huge fan of the New York-based pop band Scissor Sisters.
Spent two summers as an intern at the CIA.
Suffered from dyslexia as a child.
His older brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (born on 27 January 1965) committed suicide by jumping from the 14th floor of his mothers Gracie Square Manhattan penthouse on 22 July 1988.
Ranked #2 among "The Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America" by Out Magazine in May 2007. After years of speculation, Cooper publicly admitted his homosexuality via a July 2012 email to Andrew Sullivan.
Has two half-brothers from his mothers marriage to Leopold Stokowski : Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (born August 22, 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born January 31, 1952).
Has two half-nieces and one half-nephew by his elder half-brother Stan Stokowski: Aurora (born March 1983), Abra and Myles (born 1998).
Second cousin once removed of James Vanderbilt and third cousin once removed of Timothy Olyphant.
In his autobiography "Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival" he recalls that as a small boy, his mother showed him the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt at Grand Central Station. For several years after, he believed that when ones older relatives died, they turned into statues. Cornelius Vanderbilt made part of his vast fortune in the railroad business, which is why his statue stands at Grand Central.
Great nephew of Thelma Morgan.
Signed a multi-year deal with CNN, which would allow him to continue as a contributor to "60 Minutes" as well as doubling his salary from $2 million annually to a reported $4 million.
(May 2006) His book, "Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and Survival", is released.
Andersons partner, French nightclub mogul Benjamin Maisani, runs the "Eastern Bloc" (E. Village), "Bedlam" (E. Village), "Atlas Social Club" (Hells Kitchen) and "LOVEGUN" (Williamsburgh) in New York.
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but,when it does it comes as a total shock.
"I very much do not want to become what I used to make fun of. The,newscaster on "The Simpsons" (1989) sadly is not that far off,from what you see out there".
I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle,and conflict.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has,empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged,upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had,no reins whatsoever.
I started going to wars by myself because I was interested in the issues,of survival. I wanted to be around people who spoke the language of,loss.
I think I was really shaped by loss, by the loss of my dad when I was,ten, and the suicide of my brother when I was twenty-one and he was,twenty-three. Both those things motivated me to be independent and,self-reliant, to set out on my own and figure out my way in the world,in a way that I thought would lead to a healthy, happier life.
[to Jeffrey Lord on President Trump] If he took a dump on his desk you,would defend it.
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.
Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
