Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts is an American television broadcaster known for co-anchoring Good Morning America. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and raised in Mississippi, she first worked as a sports anchor and reporter at local television and radio stations. ESPN hired her as a sportscaster in 1990, and she spent 15 years there, becoming the first woman to share hosting duties on NFL Primetime. She reported for ABC News on Good Morning America from 1995 and was promoted to co-anchor in 2005. She also hosted ABC's Wide World of Sports between 1996 and 1998, appeared in guest parts on Hannah Montana and Last Man Standing, and sang with the Barden Bellas in Pitch Perfect 2. In 2014 she founded Rock'n Robin Productions and executive produced and narrated the documentary Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage. In 2012 the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inducted her, and in 2014 she received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.