Faith Salie

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Faith Salie
Born (1971-04-14) April 14, 1971 (age 53)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Occupation Actor, writer, radio host, television personality, television presenter
Years active 1994–present
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  • Nick Holly (2005–2009)
  • John Semel (2011–present)
Website faithsalie.com

Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, radio host, and television personality. She first became known for her role as Sarina Douglas on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and went on to host the Public Radio International program Fair Game with Faith Salie.[1]

Background

Family

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Salie is the youngest of three children born to real estate investor Robert Salie and Gail Coley Salie.[2][3] She grew up in the Atlanta area with her two older brothers, Doug (the eldest)[3] and David Salie, who served as Director of House Party Fundraising for the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign.[4]

Salie was married on June 4, 2005 to Nick Holly, a television writer and producer,[2] and brother of actress Lauren Holly. The couple divorced in 2009.[5] Salie married John Semel on October 16, 2011 in Rome, Italy.[6] The couple have two children, born in 2012 and 2014.[7]

Education

Salie graduated in 1989 from North Springs High School in Fulton County, Georgia (now Sandy Springs, Georgia). She enrolled as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and later transferred to Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature of Modern France and England.[4] Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, she earned an M.Phil. in Modern English Literature from Oxford University.[8]

Professional career

She appeared in the 2004 Bravo improvisational sitcom Significant Others, as well as other television sitcoms and dramas, including Sex and the City[9] and as Sarina Douglas on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Statistical Probabilities" (1997) and "Chrysalis" (1998). A stand-up comedian and "pop-culture pundit" on several VH-1 programs, Salie served as co-creator, host, and writer/producer for Fair Game.[1] She also appears as a guest on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, serves as a frequent panelist on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, and contributes commentaries to CBS Sunday Morning.

She chaired a special session entitled Battlestar Galactica at the 2009 World Science Festival.[10] The session also included Mary McDonnell, Michael Hogan, Nick Bostrom, and Kevin Warwick.

In February 2011, she hosted a TV special of ‘Approval Matrix’, a TV adaptation of News York Magazine's feature by the same name. [11]

Acting credits

Television

Film

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fair Game - PRI.org Retrieved 15 September 2008
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  7. ↑ "I have two children, 1 and 3 years old." (statement on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, 10 September 2015, Chicago IL)
  8. ↑ Faith Salie biography - PRI.org Retrieved 15 September 2008
  9. ↑ Salie appears as "Rina" in the September 10, 2000 Sex and the City episode "Escape from New York."
  10. ↑ Worldsciencefestival.com[dead link]
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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