Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American
broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as
the original moderator of the daytime talk show The View
(1997â€"2006), the original host of the syndicated daytime version of
the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002â€"2013), and as
co-host of the NBC morning news program Today (2006â€"2011). She
currently hosts the syndicated weekday game show 25 Words or
Less.Vieira has also been a contributor to Dateline NBC, Rock Center
with Brian Williams, and NBC Nightly News, and hosted the Lifetime
television series Intimate Portrait (1994â€"2005). From 2014 to 2016,
she hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Meredith Vieira
Show.Vieira was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in nearby
East Providence, the daughter of Mary Elsie (Rosa), a homemaker, and
Edwin Vieira, a medical doctor, both first-generation Portuguese
Americans. She is the youngest of four children, with three older
brothers. All four of Vieira's grandparents came from the
Azoresâ€"three from Faial Island, one of the nine islands in the
archipelago. The family name Vieira means "scallop" in Portuguese.
They emigrated to New England in the late-19th and early-20th
centuries, settling around Providence, Rhode Island. Vieira was raised
in the Roman Catholic faith, but she has stated in recent interviews
that she has "spirituality, not a religion".
broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as
the original moderator of the daytime talk show The View
(1997â€"2006), the original host of the syndicated daytime version of
the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002â€"2013), and as
co-host of the NBC morning news program Today (2006â€"2011). She
currently hosts the syndicated weekday game show 25 Words or
Less.Vieira has also been a contributor to Dateline NBC, Rock Center
with Brian Williams, and NBC Nightly News, and hosted the Lifetime
television series Intimate Portrait (1994â€"2005). From 2014 to 2016,
she hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Meredith Vieira
Show.Vieira was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in nearby
East Providence, the daughter of Mary Elsie (Rosa), a homemaker, and
Edwin Vieira, a medical doctor, both first-generation Portuguese
Americans. She is the youngest of four children, with three older
brothers. All four of Vieira's grandparents came from the
Azoresâ€"three from Faial Island, one of the nine islands in the
archipelago. The family name Vieira means "scallop" in Portuguese.
They emigrated to New England in the late-19th and early-20th
centuries, settling around Providence, Rhode Island. Vieira was raised
in the Roman Catholic faith, but she has stated in recent interviews
that she has "spirituality, not a religion".
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