Karyn Bryant

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Karyn Bryant


Birth name	Karyn Elaine Bryant
Born	December 23
Occupation(s)	Anchor/Reporter/Actor
Spouse	Wade
Children	Aurora

Karyn Bryant is an American actress, writer, and television personality.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 TV appearances
- 4.1 Hosting
- 4.2 Recurring Roles
5 External links

[edit] Early life

She was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed secondary school at Lawrence Academy at Groton, and received bachelor's degrees from Brown University in political science and sociology.

[edit] Career

Bryant's love of music led to her first television job in 1990, as an MTV VJ. She later hosted a live, daily music program on FX called Sound fX alongside Matt Ostrom and Orlando Jones. Jeff Probst replaced Jones toward the end of the show's run.

Bryant was chosen by TNT to host a series of entertainment vignettes called Rough Cut. The success of the vignettes prompted TNT to turn Rough Cut into a weekly television series hosted and written by Bryant. This marked the beginning of Bryant's professional relationship with Turner Broadcasting. TBS soon launched the wraparound series Movies, For Guys Who Like Movies, allowing Bryant to drive a U.S. Naval LCAC hovercraft, train with Marine snipers and engage in other action packed activities. Lorne Michaels later picked Bryant to host his new daily VH1 game show, Name That Video in 2001; Bryant filmed 50 episodes.

After a brief stint hosting CNN's Talk Back Live, Bryant was chosen to co-anchor CNN's revamped Showbiz Tonight in 2004. When the series premiered in early 2005, Bryant was the only African American woman anchoring in primetime on any cable news channel.

Bryant, a Patriots and Red Sox fan, joined ESPN for their first live New Years Eve show as the countdown to 2006 began. That year, Bryant joined the Showtime Championship Boxing announcer team with Steve Albert, Al Bernstein and Jim Gray. In May 2008, Bryant was invited by CBS to join their Elite Xtreme Combat announcer team, debuting mixed martial arts for the first time on primetime network television May 31, 2008.