Eleanor Mondale

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Biography

American actress, infotainer and radio personality

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·miscellaneous
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 19 January 1960
  • Place of birth
  • Minneapolis
  • Death date
  • 2011-09-17
  • Death age
  • 51
  • Place of death
  • Prior Lake· Minnesota
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Residence
  • Minnesota
  • Spouses
  • Keith Van Horne·Chan Poling
  • Education
  • St. Lawrence University
  • Parents
  • Walter Mondale·Joan Mondale

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Trivia

Journalist.

Daughter of former U.S. Vice President and 1984 presidential candidate Walter Mondale and Joan Mondale.

Dated Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1979 after they met on the set of The Villain . She was a production assistant on the film.

Diagnosed with brain cancer, starting chemotherapy and radiation treatments. [June, 2005]

Sister of Ted Mondale.

Passed away the day after Kara Kennedy , whose father Ted Kennedy ran for the U.S. Presidency. Both women were 51 years old.

At the 1977 Inaugural Ball for President Jimmy Carter, she wore a tuxedo to the event.

She lived with her husband on a small farm in Prior Lake, Minnesota where they kept a variety of animals. She named her coop for chicks, "Cluckingham Palace.".

She graduated from St. Timothys School in Maryland and with a Bachelors Degree from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.

She was a radio broadcaster in Chicago, Illinois in the late 1980s. In 1989, she became an entertainment reporter for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She worked as a DJ later at WLOL-FM radio in Minneapolis. She appeared on E! online cable channel, ESPN, and CBS This Morning television programs. She left her radio duties in March 2009 for health reasons.

Sister of William H. Mondale, former assistant attorney general of Minnesota and Ted Mondale, former Minnesota Senator; daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Joan Mondale.

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