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- NAME: Nancy Grace
- OCCUPATION: Lawyer, Talk Show Host
- BIRTH DATE: October 23, 1958 (Age: 54)
- EDUCATION: Mercer University, New York University, Valdosta State University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Macon, Georgia
- Full Name: Nancy Ann Grace
- AKA: Nancy Grace
- ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio
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Nancy Grace is the outspoken host of HLN's top-rated show, Nancy Grace.
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Synopsis
Born in 1958 in Macon, Georgia, Nancy Grace was on track to become and English professor in 1979 when her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot to death. As a result of the event, Grace began a life in the field to criminal justice. After obtaining her degree in constitutional and criminal law from New York University, Grace found her way to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, in Atlanta, where she served as a special prosecutor. Due to her take-no-prisoners courtroom approach,
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Court TV hired her to host a live trial coverage show, Closing Arguments. She later co-hosted Cochran and Grace and Swift Justice with Nancy Grace. She is now one of TV's most followed legal analysts and the host of the Headline News network's top-rated show, Nancy Grace.
Early Life
Nancy Grace was born in Macon, Georgia, on October 23, 1958. At age 19, she was poised to enter the academic world as an English professor, but in a twist of fate that would change the course of her life, her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot and killed. Afterward, Grace gave up her academic plans and instead set her sights on a career in criminal justice. She went on to earn bachelor's and Juris Doctor degrees from Mercer University and an advanced legal studies degree from New York University's School of Law.
After NYU, she taught at the Georgia State University College of Law (and business law at Georgia State's business school) before entering practice with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office (Atlanta), where she served as a special prosecutor for more than ten years. As might be expected in retrospect, her cases often involved murder, rape and child molestation—and Grace never lost a case. While in Atlanta, Grace also volunteered on a battered-women's hotline.
TV Career
Grace's reputation for handling high-profile cases caught the attention of Court TV, and executives signed her on to host Closing Arguments, the network’s live daily trial coverage show. She later co-hosted Cochran and Grace with renowned O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and found success with the daytime show Swift Justice with Nancy Grace, earning an Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
In 2005, Nancy grace began hosting a prime-time legal-analysis show called Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News (now the Headline News network, or HLN). She continued on with her Court TV work (minus Johnnie Cochran) until 2007 and with Swift Justice until 2011. By then, Nancy Grace had gained steady momentum and its host enjoyed growing fame and popularity, chiefly due to her aggressive coverage and discussion of controversial topics of the day, such as the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, the Duke University lacrosse team rape case, and the Caylee Anthony case.
With each of these cases and others, Grace vehemently let her opinions be known, often ahead of evidence to support them, behavior that generated controversy, backlash, and rising ratings for her show. She has appeared on a wide variety of other shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Good Morning America and Larry King Live, where she gives her no-holds-barred take on the modern justice system.
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