Faith Salie

{{Short description|American writer, journalist, actress and comedian}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Faith Salie

| image = Faith Salie at Boston Book Festival.jpg

| caption = Salie at the 2010 Boston Book Festival

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|4|14}}

| birth_place = South Weymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.

| education = Northwestern University
Harvard University (BA)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MPhil)

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|writer|radio host|television personality|television presenter}}

| years_active = 1994–present

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Nick Holly|2005|2009|end=div}}
{{marriage|John Semel|2011}}

}}

| children = 2

| website = {{URL|faithsalie.com|Official website}}

}}

Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971) is an American journalist, writer, actress, comedian, television, radio, and podcast host. She is a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. She hosted Science Goes To The Movies on PBS and CUNY TV. She is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 4 million times. Her first book, Approval Junkie, "a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval," was published by Crown in April 2016. Salie adapted it into a solo show which she performed Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City in 2021. The play premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in 2019.

Early life and education

Salie was born in South Weymouth, Massachusetts,{{cite web |url = http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/hppr/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=987272 |title = Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie debuts |publisher = High Plains Public Radio |date = 2016 |access-date = February 28, 2016 |archive-date = May 15, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180515183748/http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/hppr/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=987272 |url-status = dead }} to Robert Salie and Gail Coley Salie.{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/fashion/weddings/05sali.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=faith%20salie&st=cse |title = Faith Salie and Nick Holly |work = The New York Times |date = June 5, 2005 |access-date = February 29, 2016}} She grew up in Dunwoody, Georgia, with her two older brothers.{{cite web |url = http://www.pdonovan.net/Lopez/GailColey.htm |title = Gail Coley |date = 2012 |access-date = February 29, 2016}} Salie was raised Roman Catholic.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/12/10/505008657/panel-round-2 |title=National Public Radio: 'Panel Round 2'|publisher=NPR|date=December 10, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://rhodesscholars.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/faith-salie/ |title=How Rhodes Scholars Think: Faith Salie|date=September 17, 2007|access-date=May 14, 2018}} Salie began dancing at age three and decided she wanted to be an actor after getting the lead in the fourth-grade class play. She began performing professional children's theatre at 13. In college, she performed in plays and musicals with Matt Damon, Mo Rocca and China Forbes.{{cite web |url = http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1991/10/25/no-sex-please-were-athenian-pimagine/ |title = No Sex Please, We're Athenian |first=Amanda |last=Schaffer |work=The Harvard Crimson |date = October 25, 1991 |access-date = February 29, 2016}}

Salie graduated in 1989 from North Springs High School in Fulton County, Georgia (now Sandy Springs, Georgia). She enrolled as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and transferred after one year to Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a degree in history and literature of modern France and England. She won Harvard's prestigious literary award, the Bowdoin Prize,{{Cite web|title=Bowdoin Prizes for Undergraduate Students|url=https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/bowdoin-prizes-undergraduates|access-date=2022-01-25|website=prizes.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}} as well as the Jonathan Levy Award{{Cite web|title=Previous Recipients|url=https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/past-student-art-prize-recipients|access-date=2022-01-25|website=ofa.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}} for best actor. Chosen for a Rhodes scholarship, she earned an M.Phil. in Modern English Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford.

Professional career

Upon moving to Los Angeles from Oxford, Salie appeared in small roles on Sweet Valley High and Married... with Children before being cast on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She played the role of Sarina Douglas in two episodes, "Statistical Probabilities" (1997) and "Chrysalis" (1998). Salie, as Sarina Douglas, appears on a Deep Space Nine trading card.{{cite web |url = http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/80333/cid/5714723/2003-Decipher-Star-Trek-2nd-Edition-Call-to-Arms-Expansion-181-Sarina-Douglas,-Cataleptic-Conundrum |title = #181 - Sarina Douglas, Cataleptic Conundrum |publisher = The Trading Card Database |date = August 19, 2013 |access-date = February 29, 2016}}

Salie starred in the 2004 Bravo improvisational situation comedy Significant Others, as well as other television sitcoms and dramas, including Sex and the City and Unhappily Ever After, in which she played goth girl Caitlin Blackpool for a season. As a stand-up comedian and "pop-culture pundit," she appeared on several VH-1 shows including Best Week Ever, I Love the...90s, and Undateable.

In 2006, Salie moved to Manhattan to host the Public Radio International show Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie. It was a daily satirical news and entertainment show and podcast.{{cite web |url = http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Social-Sciences/Current-Events/Fair-Game-from-PRI-with-Faith-Salie-Podcast/22823 |title = Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie Podcast |publisher = Learn Out Loud |access-date = February 29, 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} On Fair Game, Salie interviewed hundreds of newsmakers including Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Zach Galifianakis, Leonard Nimoy, and Chelsea Handler.{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/arts/television/03stua.html?scp=1&sq=Fair+Game+with+Faith+Salie&st=nyt |title = Loosey-Goosey Voice on, Yeah, Public Radio |first = Stuart |last = Miller |work= The New York Times |date = June 3, 2007 |access-date = February 29, 2016}} She was a regular contributor to an ethics column for O, The Oprah Magazine. Salie has appeared as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The O'Reilly Factor, and Anderson.{{cite web |url = http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Polite-Rules-for-Sticky-Situations |title = Life's Sticky Situations |work = The Oprah Winfrey Show |date = June 2, 2009 |access-date = February 29, 2016}}{{cite web |url = http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/12/clips-from-last-night-donny-deutsch-and-his-all-star-panel-talk-pop-music-stars-as-role-models-and-new-accounts-on-the-raid-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/ |title = Clips From Last Night |work = Piers Morgan Live |publisher = CNN |date = February 12, 2013 |access-date = February 29, 2016 |archive-date = January 30, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230130012337/https://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/12/clips-from-last-night-donny-deutsch-and-his-all-star-panel-talk-pop-music-stars-as-role-models-and-new-accounts-on-the-raid-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/ |url-status = dead }}

Since Fair Game, Salie has hosted many podcasts, including Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed{{Cite web|title=🔊 Listen Now: Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed: Peter Sagal|url=https://one.npr.org/i/678009051:678014421|access-date=2022-01-25|website=NPR One|language=en-US}} (about the 20th anniversary of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!), Broadway Revival for Audible, Real Good for Stitcher, One Plus One for Wondery, and Authorized (about sex and romance in literature) for Audible. She has twice guest-hosted Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

In February 2011, she hosted a Bravo special of Approval Matrix, a TV adaptation of New York magazine's feature by the same name.{{cite news|last1=D'Addario|first1=Daniel|title=Approval Matrix Show Aims for Brilliant|url=http://observer.com/2011/02/approval-matrix-show-aims-for-brilliant/|access-date=September 2, 2015|work=The Observer|date=February 2, 2011}}

From 2008 to 2010, she hosted Sundance Channel’s coverage of the Sundance Film Festival,{{Citation|title=SUNDANCE '08 - BEST OF THE FEST - PART 1| date=January 27, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3PL_66u8Q|language=en|access-date=2022-01-25}} where she interviewed actors and directors such as Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Redford, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Rock, Amy Poehler, Billy Bob Thornton, Joan Rivers, Michelle Williams, Dax Shepard, Elijah Wood, and Ashton Kutcher.{{cite web |url = http://www.sundance.tv/blog/tag/faith-salie |title = Blog: Faith Salie |publisher = Sundance TV |access-date = February 29, 2016}}

Salie has been a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning since 2009. She regularly does stories and commentaries on the show, on topics ranging from time travel to gender pronouns{{Citation|title=Faith Salie on preferred gender pronouns| date=July 21, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822w5FF6UGQ|language=en|access-date=2022-01-25}} to British vs. American English{{Citation|title=Faith Salie on British vs. American English| date=May 13, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ctPQcpSBv8|language=en|access-date=2022-01-25}} to the journey of a pointe shoe to the Nutcracker stage.{{Citation|title="Nutcracker" ballerinas' most important accessory: Pointe shoes| date=December 24, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxh2pxuep3U|language=en|access-date=2022-01-25}} She is a regular panelist on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. She hosted the live, daily Sirius show News & Notes for the Entertainment Weekly channel in 2013.{{cite web |url = http://www.cbsnews.com/team/faith-salie/ |title = Faith Salie |work = CBS Sunday Morning |date = August 27, 2013 |access-date = February 29, 2016}} In 2012, Salie hosted the National Book Awards.{{cite web |url = https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2012#.VtQxUby37tQ |title = National Book Awards – 2012 |publisher = National Book Foundation |access-date = February 29, 2016}}

She has moderated events at venues such as the Paley Center for Media, Tribeca Film Festival, 92nd Street Y, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, the World Science Festival and Comic-Con.{{cite web|last=Simmons|first=Bruce|date=July 25, 2009|title=Caprica/BSG: The Plan – San Diego Comic-Con Panel|url=http://screenrant.com/caprica-bsg-plan-san-diego-comiccon-panel-brusimm-18709/|access-date=February 29, 2016|website=Screen Rant|archive-date=September 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915030725/http://screenrant.com/caprica-bsg-plan-san-diego-comiccon-panel-brusimm-18709/|url-status=dead}}

= Approval Junkie and other writing =

In Salie’s book Approval Junkie: My Heartfelt (and Occasionally Inappropriate) Quest to Please Just About Everyone, and Ultimately Myself, she shares stories of the lengths she’s gone to for validation, such as winning her high school pageant, choosing the dress to wear to her divorce, and undergoing a kind of exorcism to please her ex-husband, whom she calls her “wasband.”{{cite web|title=Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much by Faith Salie|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/approval-junkie-faith-salie/1122858287|access-date=February 29, 2016|publisher=Barnes&Noble}} She adapted the book into a play with Amanda Watkins, who directed both the Alliance Theatre's Hertz Stage in Atlanta{{Cite web|last=Cristi|first=A. A.|title=Emmy-Winning Journalist & Comedian Faith Salie Opens One-Woman Show At Alliance Theatre|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/atlanta/article/Emmy-Winning-Journalist-Comedian-Faith-Salie-Opens-One-Woman-Show-At-Alliance-Theatre-20190315|access-date=2022-01-25|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Approval Junkie // Apr 5–Apr 28, 2019 // Hertz Stage // Alliance Theatre|url=https://alliancetheatre.org/production/2018-19/approval-junkie|access-date=2022-01-25|website=alliancetheatre.org}} and the Off-Broadway{{Cite web|last=Wild|first=Stephi|title=Solea Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Marvel, Ato Blankson-Wood & More Added to Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre Line-Up|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Audible-Announces-Additional-Fall-Productions-At-The-Minetta-Lane-Theatre-and-Slate-Of-Audio-Original-Releases-20210916|access-date=2022-01-25|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}} runs.

Salie has also written for The New York Times,{{Cite news|last=Salie|first=Faith|date=2020-12-15|title=Running From Gunshots at the Cathedral With My Son|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/well/family/running-from-gunshots-at-the-cathedral-with-my-son.html|access-date=2022-01-25|issn=0362-4331}} Time,{{Cite magazine|title=How to Raise a Sweet Son in an Era of Angry Men|url=https://time.com/5045028/raising-boys-faith-salie/|access-date=2022-01-25|magazine=Time|language=en}} USA Today,{{Cite web|last=Salie|first=Faith|title=All I really need to know in life I learned from my kid's online kindergarten|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/05/19/virtual-classrooms-coronavirus-zoom-kindergarten-lessons-column/5214597002/|access-date=2022-01-25|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}} and McSweeney’s.{{Cite web|last=Salie|first=Faith|title=Parents' Manhattan Kindergarten Application Essay|url=https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/parents-manhattan-kindergarten-application-essay|access-date=2022-01-25|website=McSweeney's Internet Tendency}}

Personal life

Salie is married to John Semel. They were married on October 9, 2011, in Rome.{{cite web|title=Faith Salie, John Semel|work=The New York Times |date=October 13, 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/fashion/weddings/faith-salie-john-semel-weddings.html|access-date=June 2, 2012}} The couple have a son, born in 2012, and a daughter, born in 2014. Salie has been very public about her fertility treatments and challenges and speaks often about becoming a mother for the first time in her 40s.

She lives in Manhattan with her family.

Filmography

=Film=

Running Woman (1998)
Till Death Us Do Part (1998)
The Trip (2002)
Wild Things 2 (2004)

=Television=

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
Alien Avengers (1996)
Married... with Children (1996)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997–1998)
Unhappily Ever After (1998–1999)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1999)
Charmed (2000)
Sex and the City (2000)
Black Scorpion (2001)
Odyssey 5 (2002)
Astro Boy (2003)
Dragnet (2003)
Miss Match (2004)
Significant Others (2004) – main role
Close to Home (2006)

Awards

Salie has won five Daytime Emmy Awards as a Contributing Commentator to CBS News Sunday Morning with the show's wins for Outstanding Morning Program in 2013,{{cite news |url=http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/daytime_40th_telecast_winners.html |title=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners for the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards |publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=March 5, 2016 |date=June 17, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030141852/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/daytime_40th_telecast_winners.html |archive-date=October 30, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 2015,{{cite web |url=http://emmyonline.com/day_42nd_telecast_winners |title=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners for the 42nd Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards |publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |date=April 26, 2015 |access-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518071613/http://emmyonline.com/day_42nd_telecast_winners |archive-date=May 18, 2015 }} 2019The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners of the 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, 2019. http://cdn.emmyonline.org/daytime-46th-winners-may-5.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720042423/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/daytime-46th-winners-may-5.pdf |date=July 20, 2021 }} and 2021.The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces the Winners of the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, 2021. https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/day-48th-winners-telecast-cbs.pdf

References

External links

[http://faithsalie.com/ Official personal website]
{{IMDb name|0758276}}
[http://www.c-span.org/person/?faithsalie Faith Salie appearances on C-SPAN]
[https://dailyreporter.co.uk/ Faith Salie appearances on The Daily Reporter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526093019/https://dailyreporter.co.uk/ |date=May 26, 2023 }}

Category:American television actresses

Category:American women comedians

Category:American radio personalities

Category:American Rhodes Scholars

Category:American television personalities

Category:American women television personalities

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:Public Radio International personalities

Category:1971 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Sandy Springs, Georgia

Category:People from Weymouth, Massachusetts