Pat Battle
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Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American journalist. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV.[1]
Early life
Patricia (nickname, "Pat") N. Battle was born December 9, 1959. Of African-American descent, she grew up in Neptune Township, New Jersey, where her mother was a member of the township committee and served as police commissioner. She graduated from Neptune High School in 1977, where she had been a cheerleader.[1] Her first job was with the Asbury Park Press as a reporter.[2]
Career
Battle won a 2005 New York Regional Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the U.S. presidential primary edition of WNBC-TV's What Matters.[3]
She appeared as herself on the Netflix series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and is set to appear in a second-season episode of Peacock's Girls5eva.[4]
Personal life
Battle is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, and is married to Anthony Johnson, a reporter with WABC-TV, a competing New York City television station. In October 2010, she publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a lumpectomy.[5]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | New Year's Eve | Reporter | "Times Square" segment; first major film acting debut |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | MSNBC anchor | |
| 2022 | The Batman | Newscaster |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 30 Rock | Herself | 1 episode (season 7, episode 8: My Whole Life Is Thunder), appeared alongside fellow WNBC colleague Sue Simmons. |
| 2015 | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Herself | 1 episode (season 1, episode 4: Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!); credited as Patricia Battle. |
| 2022 | Girls5eva | Herself | 2 episodes (season 2, episode 1: Album Mode, season 2, episode 7: Returnity). |
See also
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- List of American print journalists
- List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey
- List of people from New York City
- List of people from Philadelphia
- List of television reporters
- List of University of Maryland, College Park people
References
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- ↑ a b Lewis, Evelyn Stryker (1998). Neptune and Shark River Hills (via Google Books), p. 88. Charlotte, North Carolina: Arcadia Publishing; Template:ISBN; retrieved May 27, 2011.
- ↑ Arsenau, Guy. "Weekends start early with N.J.'s Pat Battle", Inside Jersey, January 27, 2015. Accessed January 23, 2018. "A native of Neptune Township, Battle began her career as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press, in Asbury Park."
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- ↑ Pat Battle bio, nbcnewyork.com; accessed October 30, 2014.
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External links
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- Living people
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- Neptune High School alumni
- Mass media people from Teaneck, New Jersey
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