Don Lemon

Biography

Donald Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and television news anchor, best known as the host of the prime-time weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, based in New York. He currently is the co-host of CNN Tonight. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon then worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News, after which he joined CNN in 2006, also as a correspondent. He later achieved prominence as the presenter of CNN Tonight beginning in 2014. Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards. Since 2014, he has also co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans with Brooke Baldwin. In May 2021, it was announced that Lemon, along with CNN fellow journalist Chris Cuomo, would launch a podcast named "The Handoff". The audio show will center around "politics and personal" and will be teleprompter-free. The following night, on May 14, 2021, at the end of that edition of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, the host announced: "So, earlier I told you I had an announcement, and I do. It's been really, really great. This is the last night that will be CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. So I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, but changes are coming, and I will fill you in". The next morning, Lemon apologized for "setting fire to" the internet and tweeted that his show would be renamed Don Lemon Tonight, beginning the following Monday. In February 2022, it was announced that he would be hosting a talk show for CNN's then-forthcoming streaming service CNN+ called The Don Lemon Show. However, only two episodes managed to be released in the service's sole month of operation in April 2022, before shutting down.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

The View

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

All Movies (14)

Highest 2 Lowest2025 · as Don Lemon
The Trainer2024 · as Don Lemon
TMZ Presents | The Downfall of Diddy 2: The Indictment2024 · as Self - Host, "The Don Lemon Show"
For All Humankind2023 · as Self
2000 Mules2022 · as Self (archive footage)
In Delusion: Trump and the American Catastrophe2020 · as Self (archive footage)
Trump @War2018 · as Self (archive footage)
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom2018 · as Self
Seeing Allred2018 · as Self
Zoolander 22016 · as Don Lemon
Do I Sound Gay?2015 · as Self
Beyond the Lights2014 · as Don Lemon
Into the Storm2014 · as Himself
Madness at Midnight: The Search for Answers in Aurora2012 · as Presenter

All TV Shows (24)

CNN This Morning2022 · as Self - Anchor
Sherri2022 · as Self - Guest
Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist2022 · as Self - CNN (archive footage)
Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God2022 · as Self
The Don Lemon Show2022 · as Self - Host
Visible: Out on Television2020 · as Self
Tamron Hall2019 · as Self - Guest
The Kominsky Method2018 · as Himself
The Shop2018 · as Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018
Explained2018 · as Self (archive footage)
Chelsea2016 · as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015
Empire2015 · as Himself
black-ish2014 · as Don Lemon
Trailblazer Honors2014 · as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
CNN This Morning2013 · as Self - Hostess
Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
The View1997 · as Self - Guest
The View1997 · as Self