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Holly Firfer CNN

Emmy Nominated Journalist

Holly is an Emmy nominated journalist who you have seen covering anything from hurricanes to floods to celebrity trials, campaign trails and sporting events for CNN. As a full time correspondent for CNN Private Networks, she travels quite a bit, making her a near expert on airplane seating charts and can be seen in airports all over the country. Holly also covers health & medical news for CNN Accent Health, so while you are waiting in your doctor’s office, you can see more of her and read less of those “Highlights” magazines from 1988. She has also appeared on the big screen in movies like “Flight” with Denzel Washington and “Devil’s Knot” with Reese Witherspoon.

Although she has never met Denzel, she did sit in his director’s chair when no one was looking. Holly has had experience on the small screen with her recurring role, sports reporter “Andrea Evens” on USA’s “Necessary Roughness” (who by the way has never competed on“Dancing with the Stars”). She has had small roles in the ABC TV movie “Christmas Cupid”, Lifetime’s “Army Wives” and her friend’s short film, which most likely no one outside of Eastern Europe has seen called, “No Witness”. She started her career in television anchoring and reporting for CNN/US, HLN, and hosting shows such as Housecall, On The Menu and Talkback Live. She also worked as a correspondent for CNN’s Health Unit where she won numerous honors from health and medical organizations for stories she wrote and produced, which subsequently has led her to become a bit of a hypochondriac. Holly was also part of CNN’s team that won the coveted James Beard as a correspondent on the CNN show, “On The Menu”.

In 2004, to the dismay of her parents who thought she fell in with the ‘wrong crowd’, Holly left CNN briefly to host a morning show on DaveFM in Atlanta called “Music Mornings with Holly Firfer”, where she received numerous accolades, including being voted “Sexiest Radio Voice” by readers of “The Atlanta Journal Constitution”. She then added the role as co-host on NBC’s daily talk show, “Atlanta & Company”, before returning to CNN. Holly has also launched her own jewelry line called “Firfer Designs” which has caught the attention of many newspapers, magazines and some celebrities but luckily never caught on any sweaters. She is also active in many charities and actively raises money for cancer research and animal shelters. She has also lent her efforts to the fight against autism and diabetes. Holly is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a graduate of Northwestern University. In her free time she enjoys reading, cooking, traveling with her husband Shawn, and being a “mom” to their many furry four legged children.