Stormy
2024 · Movie
as Self
Rachel Maddow
1973-04-01
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Castro Valley, California, USA
Rachel Maddow (born April 1, 1973, in Castro Valley, California, U.S.) is an American political commentator, television host, and radio personality best known as the host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" (2008– ) on the cable news channel MSNBC. Maddow grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with her father, an attorney, and her mother, a school administrator. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a B.A. in public policy in 1994. As a senior she received the John Gardner Fellowship for public service, which allowed her to work with the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in San Francisco and become involved in prison AIDS advocacy. During her time at Stanford she publicly came out as a lesbian by posting an open letter throughout her dormitory. In 1995 Maddow went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her doctorate (D.Phil.) in politics in 2001. Her dissertation examined HIV/AIDS and health care reform in British and American prisons. Before finishing her degree, Maddow returned to the United States and settled in western Massachusetts. While continuing her prison AIDS advocacy and completing her dissertation, she held a variety of jobs. Her broadcasting career began after she answered an open audition at a local radio station in Holyoke, Massachusetts, for a “news girl” on a morning program. She won the position and served as the host’s on-air sidekick before eventually receiving her own show on a Northampton station. In 2004 a friend passed recordings of Maddow’s work to producers at Air America, a newly formed liberal talk radio network. She was hired as a news reader and soon became co-host of "Unfiltered" with Lizz Winstead and Chuck D. After the program ended in 2005, she was given her own weekday program, "The Rachel Maddow Show," which later expanded from one hour to two. Through her radio work she developed a reputation as a knowledgeable and policy-focused commentator. While continuing on radio, Maddow began appearing on MSNBC in 2005 as a guest on Tucker Carlson’s political talk program, where she frequently debated conservative viewpoints. Over the following years she appeared regularly on various cable news and political discussion programs. After Carlson’s show ended in 2008, Maddow became a frequent guest host on MSNBC’s "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." Her television program, "The Rachel Maddow Show," premiered on MSNBC on September 8, 2008, combining news coverage, political commentary, and interviews with figures from politics, culture, and academia. The program quickly became one of the network’s most prominent political shows. In addition to broadcasting, Maddow has written several books. Her first, "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power" (2012), examined U.S. military policy since the Vietnam War. She later published "Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth" (2019), about the global oil and gas industry, and "Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House" (2020), written with Michael Yarvitz and based on her podcast about former U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew.
Filmography
From Russia with Lev
2024 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The American Vice President: Rethinking a Political Afterthought
2024 · Movie
as Self
Prime: Weekend
2024 · TV Show
as Self - Host
Red, White & Royal Blue
2023 · Movie
as Rachel Maddow
Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell
2023 · Movie
as Self
Man on the Run
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Fight
2020 · Movie
as Self
Feels Good Man
2020 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Pandemic: The People, The Conspiracy, The Journey
2020 · Movie
Visible: Out on Television
2020 · TV Show
as Self
Away
2020 · TV Show
as Rachel Maddow
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
2019 · Movie
as Self
Batwoman
2019 · TV Show
as Vesper Fairchild (voice)
A Greater Society
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
RBG
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Occupation of the American Mind
2016 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest, Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest
Greedy Lying Bastards
2013 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
All the President's Men Revisited
2013 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
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The Muslims Are Coming!
2013 · Movie
as Self
Alpha House
2013 · TV Show
as Rachel Maddow
Hating Breitbart
2012 · Movie
as Self
Miss Representation
2011 · Movie
as Self
The Ides of March
2011 · Movie
as Rachel Maddow
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Day of Destruction, Decade of War
2011 · Movie
as Host
The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist
2010 · Movie
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Special Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Rachel Maddow Show
2008 · TV Show
as Self - Hostess
Ugly Betty
2006 · TV Show
as Rachel Maddow
30 Rock
2006 · TV Show
as Rachel Maddow
Left of the Dial
2005 · Movie
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005 · TV Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · TV Show
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The View
1997 · TV Show
as Self
The Daily Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV Show
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Rachel Maddow (voice)
American Experience
1988 · TV Show
as Self
