Pat Battle

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Pat Battle
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Born
Patricia N. Battle

(1959-12-09) December 9, 1959 (age 63)
OccupationJournalist
SpouseAnthony Johnson

Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American journalist. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV. [1]

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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

YearTitleRoleNotes
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

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 30 Rock Herself1 episode (season 7, episode 8: My Whole Life Is Thunder ), appeared alongside fellow WNBC colleague Sue Simmons.
2015 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Herself1 episode (season 1, episode 4: Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!); credited as Patricia Battle.
2022 Girls5eva Herself2 episodes (season 2, episode 1: Album Mode, season 2, episode 7: Returnity).

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References

  1. 1 2 Lewis, Evelyn Stryker (1998). Neptune and Shark River Hills (via Google Books), p. 88. Charlotte, North Carolina: Arcadia Publishing; ISBN   978-0-7524-0997-9; retrieved May 27, 2011.
  2. 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."
  3. Paskin, Willa (April 4, 2005). "WNBC wins Gotham Emmys by a nose". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  4. White, Peter (April 6, 2022). "'Girls5Eva': Amber Ruffin, Heidi Gardner, Mario Cantone & Record Label-Owning Property Brothers Among Guest Cast For Season 2". Deadline. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  5. Pat Battle bio, nbcnewyork.com; accessed October 30, 2014.