Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper earns my respect because he had every excuse to coast and chose not to. A Manhattan upbringing and a Yale degree could have led straight to a comfortable studio career, yet he built his reputation in war zones and disaster areas, reporting with a calm that never tips into detachment. His anchoring style is quietly surgical: he lets facts accumulate rather than shouting over them. The Peabody, the Cronkite Award, even a Ukrainian order of merit all point to the same thing, a journalist who still believes showing up in person matters. In an era of hot takes, that restraint feels almost radical.

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Name (English)

Anderson Cooper

Name (Japanese)

アンダーソン・クーパー

Reading

あんだーそん・くーぱー

Born

June 3, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Manhattan, New York, United States

Occupation

model / television presenter / writer / journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

University

Yale University

Awards & achievements

• 2013 GLAAD Vito Russo Award
• News and Documentary Emmy Awards
• Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
• Peabody Awards
• National Order of Honour and Merit
• 2018 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
• 2022 Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
• 2010 The Sidney Award

• Official sitehttps://www.andersoncooper.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/andersoncooper/
• Xhttps://x.com/andersoncooper
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Cooper
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316997

Tags

• New York
• model
• television presenter
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.