Lester Holt Wife, Son, Parents, Family, Salary, Ethnicity, Age, Height

Lester Holt is definitely one of the most popular faces on television. For those who don’t know him from his work on NBC, you must have seen him as a moderator during the 2016 presidential debate.

He is one of America’s most popular anchors and reporters, best known for NBC Nightly News. Here’s everything you want to know about the award-winning broadcaster.

Lester Holt Biography (Age & Ethnicity)

He was born Lester Don Holt Jr. on March 8, 1959, in Marin County, California. It was at Rancho Cordova, however, that he was raised alongside his two other siblings.

Although looking at his ethnicity, he is American, his father is a black American while his mother was of Jamaican, English and Indian descent.

Growing up, his main dream was to become a DJ until he encountered journalism and the romance that would continue for many years to come began.

After graduating from Cordova High School where he had his early education, he went to California State University to study journalism and government. Nevertheless, he did not graduate as he dropped out to his parents’ disappointment.

Interestingly enough, his dropout was to pursue his career with a radio station in San Francisco, the KCBS while still in Junior. Before calling, he also worked as a Disk Jockey for a small radio station that was controlled by the school, as well as with another station known as Krak.

Less than 2 years after that, his career started more properly when he got the opportunity to work with CBS. At the time, he was only 19 years old. His next destination after nearly 20 years at CBS was KNXT in Los Angeles. It was only to last a year, as he quickly found his way to NBC, where he was assigned major responsibilities more than just as an anchor. He took over as the anchor of NBC Nightly News after Brian Williams left the program.

Lester Holt who also anchors Dateline NBC and news for NBC has done a very important job including that of moderator of the first presidential debate of 2016 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He also had an interview with Mr. Trump after he became president.

Lester made cameo appearances in a number of films such as The Fugitive (1993), USA . Marshals (1998), and Primary fear (1996). Apart from these, he has also appeared in several TV shows.

Throughout his career, the NBC Nightly News anchor has won a number of awards, including the National Association of Black Journalists’ Journalist of the Year Award and Alan B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year Award, both of which he won in 2016. He also received an honorary doctorate from California State University, Sacramento in 2015 and Pepperdine University in 2012. Lester Holt was also inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2015.

His family – parents, wife and son

His father, Lester Holt Sr. had a career with the Airforce and when he finished, he also attended the same college as his son, but graduated. There is not much information about his mother June DeRozario.

The NBC anchor is married to a real estate agent, Carol Hagen who is now known as Carol Holt. The two have been married since 1982 and the family was blessed with two children, Cameron Holt and Stefan Holt.

His son, Stefan Holt is a news presenter. A graduate of Pepperdine University where he studied political science and broadcast journalism, he decided to be a broadcaster like his father and he now also works with NBC. Another thing that is rather very interesting about Stefan is that he is a licensed private pilot who, ironically, is afraid of size.

Stefan is married and his first child was born in 2017, making Carol Holt and Lester grandparents.

His second son, Cameron Holt graduated from Stanford University and he works as a financial analyst in a company, Morgan Stanley in New York.

Lester Holt’s Salary and Net Worth

After working for many years and very hard, Lester Holt now has an estimated net worth of $12 million. He made his wealth from his work as a broadcaster, which earns him a salary of $4.5 million every year.

Height – How tall is it?

Holt is a fairly tall man with an athletic build, as well as charm and charisma. Slightly taller than most average Joes, Lester stands 6ft 2in (1.88m) tall and weighs 71kg.