Biography
Kathie Lee Gifford is the four-time Emmy award-winning former co-host of the fourth hour of “TODAY,” alongside Hoda Kotb. After 11 years together, Kathie Lee stepped down from that role in 2019 to pursue other creative endeavors. The Gifford-Kotb hour had been hailed as “appointment television” by Entertainment Weekly, and “TODAY’s happy hour” by USA Today.
Prior to NBC News, Gifford served as the co-host of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” for 15 years. In 2015 Gifford was inducted into the Broadcast & Cable Hall of Fame. She was recently awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A playwright, producer, singer, songwriter, and actress, Kathie Lee has starred in numerous television programs and movies in her 45-year career. She has written several musicals, including Broadway’s SCANDALOUS, which received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in 2012. In the fall of 2018, she wrapped post-production on “Then Came You,” a film she has written, produced, and starred in alongside Craig Ferguson. Gifford co-wrote the score for the film with Brett James. “Then Came You” was released in October of 2020. In April of 2019, she made her directorial debut with THE GOD WHO SEES oratorio, shot in Israel and based on a song she co-wrote with Grammy-nominated Nicole C. Mullen. Over the past couple of years, she has written and directed three more oratorios and will be releasing a collection of four to be called THE WAY on September 1st, 2022.
Kathie Lee authored five NY Times bestselling books and will be releasing her newest book, The God of The Way on August 30th of this year.
