Connie Chung

Connie Chung

Acting
1946-05-20
Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography

Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (née Chung; born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance,[1] and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast, as part of CBS Evening News.

Known For & Full Filmography32 Titles

#1Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

5.0 / 10
TalkComedy

Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

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#2The Daily Show

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Self

6.4 / 10
NewsComedy

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

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#3Late Show with David Letterman

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

6.4 / 10
TalkComedy

David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a house band led by Paul Shaffer. Among the show's most-famous segments are the Top Ten List and Stupid Pet Tricks, the latter of which subsequently led to an additional recurring segment called Stupid Human Tricks.

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#4The Kelly Clarkson Show

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

6.3 / 10
Talk

Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

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#5LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Talk

A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

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#6Murphy Brown

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Connie Chung

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.

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#7Fresh Off the Boat

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes as Connie Chung

7.2 / 10
Comedy

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.

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#8American Playhouse

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self (archive footage, uncredited)

6.6 / 10
DramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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#9Intimate Portrait

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Self

4.5 / 10
Documentary

Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.

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#10The Undoing

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes as Connie Chung

7.4 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.

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#11Documentary Now!

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes as Connie Chung

7.1 / 10
Comedy

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

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#12CBS Evening News

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Self - Anchor

5.3 / 10
News

The CBS Evening News is the flagship daily evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The network has broadcast the program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963.

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#13CBS Evening News

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Self - Sunday Anchor

5.3 / 10
News

The CBS Evening News is the flagship daily evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The network has broadcast the program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963.

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#14The Nineties

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes as Self (archive footage)

6.9 / 10
Documentary

Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.

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#15What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes as Self (archive footage)

5.4 / 10
Documentary

Join visionary philanthropist Bill Gates as he delves into pressing global issues and uncovers cutting-edge technologies that will transform the world.

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#16First Ladies

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes as Self (archive footage)

5.3 / 10
DocumentaryWar & Politics

Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies is a bold revision of each woman's traditional portrayal, revealing how they were impacted during their time in the White House, and how their achievements fundamentally shaped American and global history.

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#17Waking Sleeping Beauty

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

7.2 / 10
Documentary

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

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#18Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Connie Chung

5.4 / 10
Comedy

Comedian and Trump lip-synching sensation Sarah Cooper tackles politics, race and other light topics in a sketch special packed with celebrity guests.

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#19Chandra Levy: An American Murder Mystery

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes as Self - Broadcast Journalist

7.7 / 10
DocumentaryCrime

In 2001 intern Chandra Levy vanishes. Police search the city to find the 24-year-old woman, but a powerful man hampers the search - Chandra's alleged lover, Congressman Gary Condit. Chandra's parents tell the harrowing tale of the desperate pursuit for their missing daughter.

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#20Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m as Self

7.0 / 10
Documentary

Few American journalists have had a career as trailblazing and transformative as Barbara Walters, whose astonishing life and work are recounted in her own words in this raw, intimate, decades-spanning doc.

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#21The Martha Mitchell Effect

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m as Self (voice)

6.4 / 10
DocumentaryCrimeHistory

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

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#22Nancy & Tonya

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryTV Movie

Mary Carillo looks back at the events leading up to, during and following the ladies’ figure skating competition at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in the one-hour special, “Nancy & Tonya.” The documentary, which originally aired during NBC’s Sochi Olympics coverage, features an exclusive sit-down with Nancy Kerrigan and a one-on-one interview with Tonya Harding.

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#23SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
DocumentaryMusic

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone – the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic Sly Stone – that captures the band's reign while shedding light on the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.

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#24The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m as Self

10.0 / 10
Documentary

Sandra Oh, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Nguyen, Connie Chung, and beyond: their worlds may be disparate, but they’ve all, in their unique ways, navigated what it means to be Asian in relation to their American identities. While their success has been fraught with racism, they share their stories of losses and wins.

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#25Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

7.4 / 10
MusicDocumentary

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

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#26Orlan, carnal art

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as self

8.0 / 10
Documentary

A documentary covering the rebirth of St.Orlan from 1991 through most of the decade.

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#27Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m as Self – Interviewee

6.0 / 10
Documentary

Doll hospitals, cabbage ‘births,’ a four-year legal battle over the origin of the idea and a billion-dollar toy brand that put the wheels of modern-day Black Friday shopping riots into motion. This is the unbelievable true story you never knew about the toy craze that started it all, the Cabbage Patch Kids.

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#28The Price of Gold

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self

6.7 / 10
Documentary

The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast, and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks before the Olympics on Jan. 6, 1994 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the right knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, "Why, why, why?" As the bizarre "why" mystery unraveled, it was revealed that Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the attack with his misfit friends to literally eliminate Kerrigan from the competition. Now two decades later, THE PRICE OF GOLD takes a fresh look through Harding's turbulent career and life at the spectacle that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating and has Harding still facing questions over what she knew and when she knew it.

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#29Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

9.2 / 10
Documentary

"Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown" is a documentary examining the rise and fall of Ohio congressman Jim Traficant, a populist political figure whose confrontational style and local support contrasted with his eventual conviction on federal corruption charges.

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#30Oklahoma City

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

6.9 / 10
Documentary

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This documentary explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement—including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco—led to it.

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#31Mad As Hell

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

5.7 / 10
DocumentaryComedy

MAD AS HELL follows Cenk Uygur's transformation from unknown talk show host on local Public Access TV to an internet sensation with his online news show "The Young Turks," which has amassed over one billion views on YouTube. Once Cenk ventures from the internet into national television and lands the 6 PM time slot on MSNBC, his uncensored brand of journalism is compromised and Cenk becomes the nexus in the battle between new and old media.

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#32Brother's Keeper

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Self

7.1 / 10
Documentary

This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death.

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