Reuniting Lost Families
Ann Curry's parents met after World War II while they two were in Japan. Her American born father was stationed there as a member of the US Navy. He fell in love with a local Japanese woman who ended up being Ann’s mother. He wanted to marry her immediately but the military denied his request. Even though the war had ended, there were still some tension between the two countries. There was a policy that did not allow members of the US military marry women from Japan.
Her parents were eventually reunited after not seeing each other for two years. Ann wanted to start a new show for PBS that would tell stories of people who reunited after long periods of lost contact. The show is called “We’ll Meet Again”. NPR asked Ann about how she got the idea to start the heart warming series, “It started actually with my co-executive producer, a woman named Justine Kershaw, who as a young woman had fallen off a mountain. She had been hiking, and she was in Europe. She was a dancer. And she ripped, you know, so much of herself up. She was really hurt by this fall. And there were a couple of men who were, I believe they were goat herders, and they sort of happened by and they rescued her. They carried her down the mountain. They made sure she got to care.
And then years later, after she had no longer been dancing and she now was a wife and she had children, she decided that she wanted to go back to this mountain. It was something kind of meaningful to her about it. So she went back to the mountain and she ran into, not expecting to, the goat herders. And what really stunned her was their reaction. They started sobbing and really were just so glad to see her and so glad to see how well she was doing because they never heard what happened after she had left on that emergency exit, you know, to a hospital to patch her back up.”
After her decades of work as a TV anchor, Ann felt that her next step in life was to do shows like her new project on PBS. The idea had always been brewing inside of her but she was held back by her work. Now that she has time on her hands, she is ready to spread her creative wings.
Personal Life
Ann is also known for her philanthropic work and in the year 2007 she jumped off the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough in order to support a fundraising event for charity. She has also made appearances for the Kindness Counts PSA of the PBS Kids program, Sprout.
Ann is a happily married woman and has two children. The name of her husband is Brian Ross. Curry had a successful career and used to draw a huge salary before saying goodbye to the NBC News in the year 2015. She was let go because the network felt that the lack of chemistry between her and her partner, Matt Lauer was the reason for the show’s declining ratings.
While being a big figure in journalism, she has not only brought fame and fortune to herself, but she has also boosted her net worth to 10 million dollars. She still continues to do commendable work in the field of philanthropy and has also branched out to other projects.
Return to the previous pageBirth Date: | 19 Nov, 1956 |
Age: | 63 yrs |
Occupations: | Journalist Television presenter News presenter |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Guam |
residence: | New Canaan |
Education: | University of Oregon |
Gender: | Female |
Description: | American journalist |
Twitter Id: | AnnCurry |
Spouse: | Jon Curry |
Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |