Anne-Claire Coudray

Anne-Claire Coudray
Born (1977-02-01) 1 February 1977
Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Occupation Journalist, news anchor, television presenter
Years active 2000–present
Television TF1 (2000–present)
LCI (2009–present)

Anne-Claire Coudray (born February 1, 1977) is a French journalist and television presenter.

Early life and education

Anne-Claire Coudray was born in Rennes in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, and spent a part of her childhood in Locmariaquer, Morbihan, the native town of her maternal grandparents. Her father is a psychologist and her mother is an English teacher. She pursued a Catholic education at the Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes and then preparatory classes at the Lycée Guist'hau in Nantes for two years in both hypokhâgne and khâgne. She then graduated in both Bachelor of Arts degree and master's degree of history at the University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany.

Television career

After graduating at the École Supérieure de Journalisme of Lille in 2000, Anne-Claire Coudray then worked for the Internep agency of Lille, on reports in France and foreign countries for TF1 and Arte Info. She also presented a few programs on France 3. In May 2000, she joined the news service of TF1, arriving in Paris in 2004. She reported the 2008 Summer Olympics, the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in France in September 2008, the United States presidential election of 2008, and even the French military parade on July 14, 2009.

Since June 2009, she presents the society program TMC Reportages on TMC, channel of the TF1 Group. In summer 2009, she became the replacing presenter of the news on LCI, a continuous news channel of the same group. In 2010, she replaced Bénédicte Le Chatelier after her maternity leave, to present the evening news on LCI. In December 2010, she reported on both TF1 and LCI the Ivorian presidential election opposing Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara. In 2011, she reported the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair in May, and the wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.

In July 2012, she replaced Claire Chazal to present the afternoon and evening news on weekends and the program Reportages on TF1.[1][2] During autumn 2012, she is a correspondent for TF1 in the United States to report the presidential election of 2012. Anne-Claire Coudray presents since 2013 the military parade of July 14 on TF1 with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Claude Narcy in 2013, and with Louis Bodin and Denis Brogniart in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ "Voici la nouvelle présentatrice des JT de TF1, joker de Claire Chazal: Anne-Claire Coudray" (in French). Official site of Jean-Marc Morandini. July 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Anne-Claire Coudray, le nouveau joker gagnant de TF1" (in French). Le Figaro. January 4, 2013.

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