PERSON: Lauren Green

Chief Religion Correspondent

Lauren Susan Green (born June 30, 1958) is the Chief Religion Correspondent for Fox News. Previously she was a headline anchor giving weekday updates at the top and bottom of the hour during morning television show Fox & Friends. She has also appeared as a guest panelist on Fox’s late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She is the first African-American Miss Minnesota.

Green was born to Robert and Bessie Grissam Green in Minneapolis. She has two sisters, Barbara and Lois, and two brothers, Leslie and Kenneth. In an interview with Bill O’Reilly she admitted that when she was in the sixth grade, Prince had a crush on her, called her to say “I like you,” and she hung up on him. She later appeared in the music video for Prince’s 1992 song My Name Is Prince, playing a news anchor and using her own name of Lauren Green. She won the Miss Minnesota pageant in 1984, and was third runner-up in the Miss America 1985 pageant.

Green earned her Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of Minnesota in 1980, then attended graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Green is a practicing Christian and was raised in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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