Léa Salamé
Acting
Hala LĂ©a SalamĂ©, known as LĂ©a SalamĂ© (born 27 October 1979), is a Lebanese-born French journalist. Hala LĂ©a SalamĂ© is the daughter of Ghassan SalamĂ©, former Lebanese Minister of Culture and former special advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; her mother, Mary Boghossian, of Armenian descent, is the sister of diamond dealers Jean and Albert Boghossian. She escaped war in Lebanon with her family, settled in Paris at age 5 and obtained French nationality at age 11. LĂ©a SalamĂ© studied law at PanthĂ©on-Assas University and Sciences Po. She spent a year at New York University, where she was injured in the September 11 attacks. SalamĂ© began her career as an intern on La ChaĂźne parlementaire with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In September 2006, she started working for newly created French international news TV channel France 24. SalamĂ© joined i>TĂ©lĂ© in late 2010 and hosted a political show in the context of the 2012 French presidential election. Starting in September 2011, she hosted the evening news with Marc Fauvelle and in September 2012, a political debate programme. The next year, she hosted Ăa se dispute with Ăric Zemmour and Nicolas Domenach as commentators. In August 2014, SalamĂ© succeeded Natacha Polony in the duo of commentators which she formed with Aymeric Caron, then with Yann Moix, in Laurent Ruquier's show, On n'est pas couchĂ©, aired on France 2. In May 2016, she announced that she would leave to host a political show with David Pujadas starting in September 2016, in the context of the 2017 French presidential election. Since August 2014, SalamĂ© has hosted the 7:50 a.m. interview in France Inter's morning show. Since December 2015, she has also conducted high-profile interviews in the French edition of GQ. On 14 April 2016, as she interviewed President François Hollande with David Pujadas in the programme Dialogues citoyens on France 2, LĂ©a SalamĂ© replied to President Hollande, who was making a comment on refugees, "Are you joking?", which triggered many reactions on social media. With Les ArĂšnes, SalamĂ© published her first book, "Strong Women", a series of 12 intimate interviews around female power, originally conducted as a podcast in the summer of 2019, in which she revealed her "pantheon of femininity". In the summer of 2019, she hosted a podcast called "Powerful Women" at France Inter, revolving around female individuality in relation to power and femininity, as seen in the fields of publishing, literature, film, business, and sports. In the book, SalamĂ© revealed her role models: LeĂŻla Slimani, ChloĂ© Bertolus, Christiane Taubira, Laure Adler, Ălisabeth Badinter, BĂ©atrice Dalle, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Bettina Rheims, Sophie De Closets, AmĂ©lie Mauresmo, Anne MĂ©aux and the comediennes of Delphine Horvilleur. Source: Article "LĂ©a SalamĂ©" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
