Connie Chung

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

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Daily Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Late Show with David Letterman

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Fresh Off the Boat

Murphy Brown

Intimate Portrait

All Movies (17)

• The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas2026 · as Self
• Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything2025 · as Self
• Good Night, and Good Luck: Truth and Power2025 · as Self
• SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)2025
• Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids2023 · as Self – Interviewee
• The Martha Mitchell Effect2022 · as Self (voice)
• Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine2020 · as Connie Chung
• Oklahoma City2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mad As Hell2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nancy & Tonya2014 · as Self
• The Price of Gold2014 · as Self
• Waking Sleeping Beauty2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Orlan, carnal art2001 · as self
• Omniprésence1994 · as self
• Brother's Keeper1992 · as Self

All TV Shows (18)

• What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Undoing2020 · as Connie Chung
• First Ladies2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self - Guest
• Chandra Levy: An American Murder Mystery2017 · as Self - Broadcast Journalist
• The Nineties2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Documentary Now!2015 · as Connie Chung
• Fresh Off the Boat2015 · as Connie Chung
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Intimate Portrait1993 · as Self
• Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self - Guest
• Murphy Brown1988 · as Connie Chung
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• 19861986 · as Host
• NBC News at Sunrise1983 · as Anchor
• CBS Evening News1961 · as Self - Anchor
• CBS Evening News1961 · as Self - Sunday Anchor