Ashleigh Banfield

Ashleigh Banfield, an international television news correspondent, is perhaps most noted for her EMMY recognized live coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, as well as follow-up stories that took her to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, England, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Banfield, currently hosts two shows on TruTV (formerly Court TV), including a daily live legal news program with Jack Ford, and a prime time program that has earned the network some of its highest ratings ever. She has hosted live prime time programs from locations across the country and around the globe and has anchored several prime time series such as A Region In Conflict and Ashleigh Banfield: On Location.

As a correspondent for NBC News, she appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Dateline. While anchoring MSNBC, she covered stories including the 2000 Election, the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, the 2003 crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Banfield served as a news anchor in Dallas, Texas. Her distinguished career began in 1988 as a photographer, researcher, and reporter at CJBN in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. By 1991 she was working for CICT-TV, Canada, and covering the Bush/Gorbachev Summit in Russia and, in 1992, the Clinton/Yeltsin Summit in Vancouver. Some of Banfield's most noted interviews include Yasser Arafat, Martha Stewart, Hugh Grant, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, John McCain, Jane Fonda, Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump.

Ashleigh is married to Howard Gould, and has two young sons, J. Fischer and Ridley Gould.