Dara Brown is a

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and senior producer for MSNBC.com. In 2006, she became an alternating host of

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on NBC and First Look on MSNBC.

Biography

Born Dara Evans Brown, she is the daughter of Karen (née Peterson) and David E. Brown. Dara has a son named Hayden, and a daughter named Victoria. As a child, Brown starred as the title character in the first national tour of the musical '' Annie''. Brown graduated in 1983 from Wall High School in

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."Wall's Crimson Knight Foundation to Postpone 2nd Annual Awards Gala"
Crimson Kinghts Foundation, press release dated March 14, 2020. "Our Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Dara Brown (Wall Class of 1983) is an NBC News anchor for breaking news and weekend coverage on MSNBC." She is a graduate of

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. In 1999, she married Matthew Schmid in a

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ceremony in

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. The pair divorced in 2014.

References

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