Meredith Vieira

Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American journalist and television personality, who was the original moderator of the ABC talk show The View (1997–2006), and co-hosted the long-running NBC News morning news program, Today (2006–2011).\n', ' Vieira was the original host of the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. She has been a contributor to Dateline NBC and Rock Center with Brian Williams, and was the presenter on Lifetime Television\'s Intimate Portrait series. She hosted a syndicated talk show, The Meredith Vieira Show, from 2014 to 2016. She is a special correspondent for NBC News and a contributor to Today, the NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC.\n', ' Vieira was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in nearby East Providence, the daughter of Mary Elsie (Rosa), a homemaker, and Edwin Vieira, a medical doctor, both first-generation Portuguese Americans. She is the youngest of four children, with three older brothers. All four of Vieira\'s grandparents came from the Azores—three from Faial Island, one of the nine islands in the archipelago. The family name Vieira means "scallop" in Portuguese. They emigrated to New England in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, settling around Providence, Rhode Island. Vieira was raised in the Roman Catholic faith, but she has stated in recent interviews that she has "spirituality, not a religion".\n', '