Christianne Klein Biography
Christianne Klein is an Emmy® & Edward R. Murrow Award-winning TV news anchor & host, travel and lifestyle expert, best-selling author, and former national anchor and correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America. She has hosted Good Morning America Now, Eat and Greet, ABC News Special Reports, and frequently anchored ABC's overnight and early morning news programs World News Now and America This Morning.
Christianne has a diverse background and has appeared on numerous international programs covering travel, lifestyle, entertainment, politics, business, consumer, health news, and cooking her favorite healthy recipes. She is the founder of the travel and lifestyle brand FoodFamilyTravel.com, which is syndicated through MSN. The series, Life OVER Seas, shared her family’s international adventures aboard an ultra-luxury cruise ship and reached more than 810 million people worldwide through traditional media alone.
As a travel and lifestyle expert, she has been featured in Travel + Leisure, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo!, Fast Company, and broadcast media around the globe. She has cooked alongside Chef Emeril Lagasse on the Discovery Network's show, Emeril Green, and published the lifestyle, food, and beauty cookbook, Christianne's Herbal Kitchen: Fresh Herb Recipes for Body and Soul.
At ABC News, Christianne covered travel, lifestyle, entertainment, and politics, including several presidential administrations, the White House, presidential campaigns, Capitol Hill, and anchoring special political and Election Night coverage. Christianne was part of the news team that was recognized with an Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence at ABC News.
Christianne joined ABC News in New York from WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., where she won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Spot News Coverage (Large Market).
Christianne has worked for every major network or network affiliate as an anchor, TV host & correspondent. During her tenure as an evening anchor at CBS in Las Vegas, Christianne was recognized with Silver State and Emmy Awards. Before joining CBS, Christianne was a morning and evening anchor at NBC and Fox affiliates in California.
In addition to her broadcasting experience, Christianne served as a frequent panelist and political contributor on the late-night talk show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She also appeared as "Linda Garvey" in the Universal Pictures film, American Dreamz, and as "Chloe" in the 2021 scripted podcast series, Venice. As an actress and singer, she's starred in various productions including The Little Shop of Horrors (“Audrey”- winner, Best Actress in a Musical), A Christmas Carol - The Musical (“Ghost of Christmas Past” - nomination, Best Actress in a Musical), The Pajama Game (“Babe”), and Puccini's Opera, Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) as well as The Days of ‘47 Pops Concert with Christianne Klein and George Dyer in Abravanel Hall and as a featured soloist with members of Congress in Capitol CAREaoke, a charity fundraiser to benefit Childhelp USA.
As a media strategist and consultant, executive presentation, and media trainer, Christianne has trained CEOs from major corporations and their teams, Fortune 500 companies, high-profile individuals, and students and faculty at elite universities around the globe. She’s worked with teams and executives on every continent except Antarctica. She's also a sought-after keynote speaker, serving as the closing keynote at The Capital Region Women's Conference and as a speaker and presentation trainer for The Academy of Management, the preeminent professional association for business management and organization scholars.
In April 2020, Christianne released the best-selling illustrated children's book, Anna and the Germ that Came to Visit. The book was designed to give families the tools they need to deal with the sudden changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Christianne is the granddaughter of Helene Machado, a former professional baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
A graduate of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a degree in Political Science, Christianne was honored to join Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Christianne is also a graduate of the Executive Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford: Saïd Business School in Oxford, England.
She was featured in Authority Magazine for its "Power Women" series, named the Leading Luxury Travel and Lifestyle Expert of 2025 by LUXLife Magazine, and is a 2024 inductee into "The Big Red Book", Marquis Who's Who in America®.