McFadden, Cynthia 1956–

PERSONAL

Full name, Cynthia Graham McFadden; born May 27, 1956, in Lewiston, ME; adopted daughter of Warren Graham (a business executive) and Arlene (maiden name, Ridley) McFadden; married Michael Davies, September 9, 1989 (divorced, 1996); married James Hoge (a magazine editor; divorced); children: (second marriage) Spencer Graham. Education: Bowdoin College, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1978; Columbia University, J.D. (some sources cite LL.B.), 1984.

Addresses: Office—ABC News, 147 Columbus Ave., New York, NY 10023–5999. Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career: Broadcast journalist, producer, and writer. Columbia University, New York City, executive producer of Media and Society seminars, 1984–90; Court Television Network, New York City, senior producer and anchor, 1990–94; ABC News, New York City, network legal affairs correspondent, 1994–96, senior legal correspondent, 1996—. Bowdoin College, member of board of governors, 1989–95.

Member: Phi Beta Kappa.

Awards, Honors: Silver Gavel, American Bar Association, 1987 and 1988; at least six Golden Eagles, Council on International Nontheatrical Events, including one in 1997; named woman of distinction, Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America, 1997; first–place award, documentary category, New York Association of Black Journalists, 2004, for a television special on school integration fifty years after Brown vs. Board of Education; Emmy Award (with others), news category, 2000, for ABC 2000: The Millennium; Alfred I. DuPont Award, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 2002, for reporting on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; other awards include Front Page Award from Newswomen's Club of New York; George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award from Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia; Ohio State Award; Grand Award from New York Festival; blue ribbon from American Film Festival; two Emmy Award nominations; two Annual CableACE Award nominations, anchor of the year, National Cable Television Association; and award from Overseas Press Club of America.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Host, Court TV: Inside America's Courts, syndicated, 1993–94.

Correspondent, 20/20 (also known as ABC News 20/20), ABC, beginning 1994.

Substitute anchor, ABC News Nightline (also known as Nightline), ABC, 1997–2005.

Anchor, Vanished, ABC, 1999.

Cohost, 20/20 Downtown (also known as Downtown and Primetime Thursday), ABC, 1999–2002.

Narrator, State v., ABC, 2002.

Narrator, In the Jury Room, ABC, 2004.

Contributing anchor, Primetime Live (also known as ABC Primetime, Primetime, and Primetime Wednesday), ABC, beginning 2004.

Coanchor, ABC News Nightline (also known as Nightline), ABC, 2005—.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Host and correspondent, Pro–Voice 1990—Abortion: An American Controversy, Lifetime, 1990.

Host, "Trial Story" segment, Families Divided: A Child's Day in Court, Court TV, 1993.

Correspondent, Into the Jury's Hands, ABC, 1995.

Host, Judgment at Midnight, ABC, 1996.

Host, Target America: The Terrorist War, ABC, 1999.

Correspondent from Havana, ABC 2000: The Millennium, ABC, 1999.

Interviewer, Born in My Heart: A Love Story, ABC, 2001.

Correspondent, LJU: Law and Justice Unit—Who Really Killed Laurie Show?, ABC, 2001.

Correspondent, In the Path of Katrina, ABC, 2005.

Coanchor of a documentary special on school integration fifty years after Brown vs. Board of Education, 2004.

Host of Women in the Shadows, ABC.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Host, The Safety Challenge, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

The Charlie Rose Show (also known as Charlie Rose), PBS, 1995.

Larry King Live, Cable News Network, 2004, 2005.

The Tony Danza Show, syndicated, 2005, 2006.

Correspondent, World News Now, ABC, 2007.

Entertainment Tonight (also known as Entertainment This Week, E.T., ET Weekend, and This Week in Entertainment), syndicated, 2007.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, 2007.

Panelist, This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, ABC; guest on Good Morning America, ABC, and other programs.

Television Work; Specials:

Executive producer, In the Face of Terrorism, PBS, 1987.

Executive producer, The Politics of Privacy, PBS, 1988.

Coproducer, Pro–Voice 1990—Abortion: An American Controversy, Lifetime, 1990.

Television Executive Producer; Miniseries:

The Presidency and the Constitution, PBS, 1987.

Ethics in America, PBS, 1989.

Television Producer; Series:

Bookmark, PBS, 1989.

Film Appearances:

Herself, After School, Powerhouse Pictures, 2008.

WRITINGS

Television Series:

(Contributor) 20/20 (also known as ABC News 20/20), ABC, beginning 1994.

(Contributor) Primetime Live (also known as ABC Primetime, Primetime, and Primetime Wednesday), ABC, beginning 2004.

Television Specials:

"Weddings: Sponsored Wedding" segment, Weddings Gone Wacky, Wonderful, and Wild: Anything for Love, ABC, 2004.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Reader's Digest, September, 2003, pp. 60A–60G.

Electronic:

ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com, December 12, 2005.