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Don Lemon
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Donald Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and television news anchor, best known as the host of the prime-time weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, based in New York…
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Donald Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and television news anchor, best known as the host of the prime-time weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, based in New York. He currently is the co-host of CNN Tonight. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon then worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News, after which he joined CNN in 2006, also as a correspondent. He later achieved prominence as the presenter of CNN Tonight beginning in 2014. Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards. Since 2014, he has also co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans with Brooke Baldwin. In May 2021, it was announced that Lemon, along with CNN fellow journalist Chris Cuomo, would launch a podcast named "The Handoff". The audio show will center around "politics and personal" and will be teleprompter-free. The following night, on May 14, 2021, at the end of that edition of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, the host announced: "So, earlier I told you I had an announcement, and I do. It's been really, really great. This is the last night that will be CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. So I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, but changes are coming, and I will fill you in". The next morning, Lemon apologized for "setting fire to" the internet and tweeted that his show would be renamed Don Lemon Tonight, beginning the following Monday. In February 2022, it was announced that he would be hosting a talk show for CNN's then-forthcoming streaming service CNN+ called The Don Lemon Show. However, only two episodes managed to be released in the service's sole month of operation in April 2022, before shutting down.
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2025
Highest 2 Lowest
Movie Don Lemon
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2024
The Trainer
Movie Don Lemon
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2024
TMZ Presents | The Downfall of Diddy 2: The Indictment
Movie Self - Host, "The Don Lemon Show"
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2023
For All Humankind
Movie Self
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2022
CNN This Morning
TV show Self - Anchor
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist
TV show Self - CNN (archive footage)
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2022
Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God
TV show Self
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2022
2000 Mules
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
The Don Lemon Show
TV show Self - Host
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2020
In Delusion: Trump and the American Catastrophe
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Visible: Out on Television
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
The Kominsky Method
TV show Himself
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2018
Trump @War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
The Shop
TV show Self
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2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV show
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2018
Explained
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 2018
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2018
Seeing Allred
Movie Self
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2016
Chelsea
TV show Self
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2016
Zoolander 2
Movie Don Lemon
- 2015
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2015
Do I Sound Gay?
Movie Self
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2015
Empire
TV show Himself
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2014
Beyond the Lights
Movie Don Lemon
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2014
black-ish
TV show Don Lemon
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2014
Into the Storm
Movie Himself
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2014
Trailblazer Honors
TV show Self
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
CNN This Morning
TV show Self - Hostess
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2012
Madness at Midnight: The Search for Answers in Aurora
Movie Presenter
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2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV show Self - Guest
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
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1997
The View
TV show Self - Guest
