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Léa Salamé

Hala Léa Salamé, known as Léa Salamé (born 27 October 1979), is a Lebanese-born French journalist. Hala Léa Salamé is the daughter of Ghassan Salamé, former Lebanese Minister of Culture and former special advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; her mother, Mary Boghossian, of Armenian descent, is the sister of diamond dealers Jean and Albert Boghossian. She escaped war in Lebanon with her family, settled in Paris at age 5 and obtained French nationality at age 11. Léa Salamé studied law at Panthéon-Assas University and Sciences Po. She spent a year at New York University, where she was injured in the September 11 attacks. Salamé began her career as an intern on La Chaîne parlementaire with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In September 2006, she started working for newly created French international news TV channel France 24. Salamé joined i>Télé in late 2010 and hosted a political show in the context of the 2012 French presidential election. Starting in September 2011, she hosted the evening news with Marc Fauvelle and in September 2012, a political debate programme. The next year, she hosted Ça se dispute with Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Domenach as commentators. In August 2014, Salamé succeeded Natacha Polony in the duo of commentators which she formed with Aymeric Caron, then with Yann Moix, in Laurent Ruquier's show, On n'est pas couché, aired on France 2. In May 2016, she announced that she would leave to host a political show with David Pujadas starting in September 2016, in the context of the 2017 French presidential election. Since August 2014, Salamé has hosted the 7:50 a.m. interview in France Inter's morning show. Since December 2015, she has also conducted high-profile interviews in the French edition of GQ. On 14 April 2016, as she interviewed President François Hollande with David Pujadas in the programme Dialogues citoyens on France 2, Léa Salamé replied to President Hollande, who was making a comment on refugees, "Are you joking?", which triggered many reactions on social media. With Les Arènes, Salamé published her first book, "Strong Women", a series of 12 intimate interviews around female power, originally conducted as a podcast in the summer of 2019, in which she revealed her "pantheon of femininity". In the summer of 2019, she hosted a podcast called "Powerful Women" at France Inter, revolving around female individuality in relation to power and femininity, as seen in the fields of publishing, literature, film, business, and sports. In the book, Salamé revealed her role models: Leïla Slimani, Chloé Bertolus, Christiane Taubira, Laure Adler, Élisabeth Badinter, Béatrice Dalle, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Bettina Rheims, Sophie De Closets, Amélie Mauresmo, Anne Méaux and the comediennes of Delphine Horvilleur. Source: Article "Léa Salamé" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Oct 27, 1979 In Beyrouth, Lebanon
Movie/TV Credits:
19
First Appeared:
In the series Télématin 1985-01-10
Latest Project:
Movie The Darwinners 2024-09-11
Known For
Poster of Quelle époque !
Poster of The Chase France
Poster of We're Live
Poster of Télématin
Filmography
Movie The Darwinners (voice) 2024-09-11
Movie Quand la télé dérape, 40 ans de scandales 2024-05-03
Series Quels Jeux ! Self - Host 2024-07-27
Movie Invisible Homo Self - Host 2022-03-28
Series Quelle époque ! Self - Host 2022-09-24
Movie Rimbaud jeune et maudit Host 2021-02-03
Movie Mitterrand, président culturel Self 2021-05-12
Series The Problem with Jon Stewart Self 2021-09-30
Series The Chase France Self - Guest 2021-06-05
Movie L'enfance mise à nu Herself 2020-03-25
Movie La culture déconfinée Herself 2020-06-10
Series We're Live Self - Co-Host 2020-09-26
Movie Les secrets de François Truffaut Présentatrice 2020-07-05
Movie Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi Self 2020-07-13
Series Le Doc stupéfiant Léa Salamé 2019-10-16
Series Quotidien Self - Guest 2016-09-12
Series Stupéfiant ! Host 2016-09-28
Movie Le Crocodile du Botswanga Présentatrice i>Télé 2014-02-19
Series Télématin Self 1985-01-10