Bianna Golodryga

Bianna married her long-term boyfriend, Peter R. Orszag. He is the erstwhile Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Obama Administration. He is currently working as the Managing Director as well as the Vice Chairman of investment banking at Lazard.

Bianna and Peter are blessed with a son, Jake, and a daughter, Maia.

Bianna was born on June 15, 1978 in Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. She is the only child of her parents, Vitaly Golodryga and Zhanna Golodryga. Her parents left the USSR and moved to Houston, Texas as political refugees when she was only two years old.

Bianna completed her schooling from High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She pursued higher education at the University of Texas, majoring in East European and Eurasian Studies. She also studied economics at the same university.

Prior to her career in television, Bianna worked in the financial services sector. She began her television career in 2001 as a bureau producer for the cable news channel, CNBC. During this phase of her career, she did a live coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attack and also conducted numerous interviews of top business leaders. She has interviewed major newsmakers, including President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and investor Warren Buffett.

In 2004, she became a producer and produced several segments of the nation’s most watched financial news show, ‘The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo’. In addition to this, she has produced interviews of the world's top corporate and political leaders.

At CNBC, Bianna covered various high profile events for the network, including the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Apart from her production duties at CNBC, she also began contributing as an on-air correspondent for the financial channel, NBC Network in 2006.

After having worked for CNBC for six long years, Bianna decided to quit and then joined the ABC network in 2007. It was only after joining the ABC network that fame came in search of her. She had a dramatic change in fortune after joining hands with the network.

Working for ABC, she hosted some of the popular shows, including ‘Good Morning America’. She got an opportunity to work as a co-anchor of ‘GMA Weekend’ in April 2010. Since then, the program has become the most watched Saturday morning news show.

In 2000, Bianna was charged for driving under the influence of alcohol which was eventually dismissed. Records showed that she pleaded no contest to reckless driving and avoided being jailed for 30 days.