Biographie
Faith Salie was the host and executive producer of the National Public Radio show "Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie". During its 300 episode run, she conducted over 1000 interviews with the likes of President Jimmy Carter, Lorne Michaels, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Slash, Elizabeth Edwards, Norah Jones, Oliver Sacks, Tom Brokaw and a family of champion elk callers.
On television, Faith hosts the Sundance Channel's coverage of the Sundance Film Festival, conducting interviews with filmmakers and actors such as Chris Rock, Uma Thurman, Billy Bob Thornton, The Doors, Kristen Wiig, Mo'Nique and Paul Giamatti. Faith was also one of the stars of the critically-acclaimed improvisational sitcom, Significant Others (2004) on Bravo. She has appeared in numerous sitcoms and dramas -- from a memorable turn in gold lamé on Sex and the City (1998) to reaching the arcane iconic status of "tradable life form" for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) fans.
Faith is a monthly contributor to "O", the Oprah Magazine, as an ethics expert and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), taking on Randy Cohen, The New York Times ethicist.
As a commentator on politics and current events, Faith has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979), The Factor (1996) and CNN, and has contributed to the National Public Radio shows "Tell Me More" and "The Takeaway". For the latter, she covered both the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions. She serves as one of the moderators for the World Science Festival, leading panels with scientists such as Richard Leakey, Vilayanur Ramachandran and Raymond Kurzweil. To justify her subscriptions to Star and US Weekly, Faith offers pop-culture punditry on a variety of VH-1 shows and is a regular on the late-night Fox News show Red Eye w/Tom Shillue (2007).
Faith has regularly performed as a stand-up comedian at the Hollywood Improv. She is also a television writer and has created/executive produced pilots for Fox, VH-1, and the Oxygen Network.
Faith is a Rhodes scholar who graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. She completed an M. Phil. in Literature at Oxford University. Faith was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, which means she uses "wicked" as an adverb and also says "y'all". Faith's hobbies include baking white trash treats and giving them away before she can eat them.
