Chris Wallace Biography
Chris Wallace is an American anchor working for CNN as a News correspondent, moderator, and anchor. He joined the CNN news team in January 2022, after previously working for FOX News.
Chris Wallace Career
Wallace works as a CNN anchor. He is the host of the shows Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, with new episodes every week on Max, and The Chris Wallace Show, with new episodes every Saturday at 10 a.m. ET on CNN and CNN Max. The Boston Globe called Wallace an “equal opportunity inquisitor,” and The Washington Post called him “an aggressive journalist” who is “sharp-edged” and “solid.” Wallace talks to CEOs and media moguls, Hollywood legends, and newsmakers about politics, business, world events, sports, and culture.
Wallace began his career in television more than 50 years ago and has won many awards. He spent 18 years as the host of FOX News Sunday before joining CNN in January 2022. Wallace worked at FOX for almost twenty years and covered every big political event. He also got many high-profile interviews with dignitaries and U.S. and foreign leaders.
He also covered five presidential elections and talked to every president since George H.W. Bush. Wallace will be moderating the first presidential discussion of the 2020 election season. He was chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Wallace was the first FOX writer to moderate a general election presidential debate in 2016. In August 2015, he co-moderated the first GOP presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle, as well as the second and third debates on the same network.
Wallace is the recipient of every major broadcast news award for his work. These include three Emmys, the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Peabody Award, and the National Press Foundation’s Sol Taishoff Award for Broadcast Journalism. The Panetta Institute gave him the 2021 Jefferson-Lincoln Award, and the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism in 2020. He was also named number 1 on Mediaite’s Most Influential in News Media list for his “clear-eyed reporting, analysis, and commentary throughout the year.”
Wallace won the ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism for “his fair and sharp approach to interviews.” The Radio Television Digital News Association gave Wallace the Paul White Award in 2013 for his lifetime of work and service to electronic news. Wallace has also written Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice and Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World, both of which were bestsellers in the New York Times.
Wallace worked at ABC News for 14 years before joining FOX. There, he was the chief reporter for PrimeTime and a fill-in host for Nightline. Wallace was NBC’s chief White House correspondent and held Meet the Press before joining ABC. He is the only person to have hosted two Sunday talk shows. He was also the host of NBC Nightly News on Sundays. Wallace got his start in the business as a city hall writer for The Boston Globe after graduating from Harvard.
During “Power Players Week” on Jeopardy! in 2012, Wallace was one of many journalists, politicians, and TV celebrities who competed. He was up against Dr. Oz, a TV celebrity, and BBC journalist Katty Kay. Wallace won the game with $22,400, while Kay and Oz each got $8,000. Moreover, he went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July 2019 to pitch a documentary about his father called Mike Wallace is Here.
Wallace said at the Washington Media Museum in December 2019: “Trump is launching the most direct and long-lasting attack on freedom of the press in our history.” His favorite parts of his 50-year job as a journalist were “spending a week with Mother Teresa in Calcutta,” traveling the world with Ronald Reagan for ABC News, and asking Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, “Why do so many people who oppose you end up dead?” Wallace portrayed Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live in the Third Presidential Debate Cold Open in 2016. Beck Bennett played him in 2020. Wallace was portrayed by Marc Evan Jackson in Jay Roach’s 2019 movie Bombshell.
Chris Wallace Salary
Wallace earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Chris Wallace Net Worth
Wallace has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a News anchor and Correspondent.
Chris Wallace Age
Wallace was born in 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is 76 years old as of 2023. He has not disclosed any details concerning his date and month of birth. However, this information will be updated when available.
Chris Wallace Height and Weight
Wallace stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 76 kgs (167 lbs).
Chris Wallace Family
Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States to Mike Wallace (father), a longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter, and Norma Kaphan (mother). He had an older brother, named Peter who died in a mountain climbing accident when he was 19 years old (1942–1962). Jennifer Breheny Wallace was married to Peter Wallace and is a writer. Her best-selling book from 2023 is called Never Enough. He grew up with his mother and stepfather, Bill Leonard, who is President of CBS News. His parents split up when he was one year old. Moreover, Leonard hired him as Walter Cronkite’s assistant at the 1964 Republican National Convention, which was his first job in political news. Wallace and his father, Mike, didn’t have a good relationship until Wallace was 14 years old.
Chris Wallace Wife and Children
Wallace has been married twice. In 1973, he was married to Elizabeth Farrell and was blessed with four children Peter, Megan, Andrew, and Catherine. They divorced after three years and married Lorraine Smothers in 1977. Lorraine was formerly married to Dick Smothers, an American actor, comedian, composer, and musician. Lorraine has two children from her first marriage. Their names are Sarah Smothers and Remick Smothers. Moreover, Lorraine and Wallace are blessed with two children William Wallace and Caroline Wallace.
Chris Wallace Father
Wallace is the son of the well-known journalist Mike Wallace. Mike was a news reporter, game show host, actor, and media star from the United States. During his seven-decade career, he talked to many important people in the news and was known for his critical reporting. He was one of the first reporters to work for the CBS news show 60 Minutes, which started in 1968. Wallace stopped working as a full-time reporter in 2006, but he still made occasional appearances on the show until 2008.
Moreover, Wallace passed away on April 7, 2012, at his home in New Canaan, Connecticut, of natural causes. Morley Safer told 60 Minutes about Wallace’s death the night after he died. They showed a whole episode of 60 Minutes on April 15, 2012, just to remember Wallace’s life. Western Chop Cemetery in Tisbury, Massachusetts, is where he was laid to rest.
Chris Wallace Social Media Platform
Wallace is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 12.1k followers on Twitter followers on Instagram, and 41.6k followers on Facebook.