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Don Lemon

Don Lemon

Known For Acting
Birthday Mar 01, 1966 (59)
Birthplace Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Jan 31, 2026
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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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Filmography

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2025

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Zoolander 2

Zoolander 2

2016

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Beyond the Lights

Beyond the Lights

2014

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

black-ish

as Don Lemon

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 2014

CNN This Morning

as Self - Hostess

Episodes: 115

First Aired: Jun 17, 2013

CNN This Morning

as Self - Anchor

Episodes: 44

First Aired: Nov 01, 2022

Visible: Out on Television

as Self

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Feb 14, 2020

The Don Lemon Show

as Self - Host

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 15, 2022

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 09, 2019

The View

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 11, 1997

Empire

as Himself

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 07, 2015

Chelsea

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 11, 2016

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 17, 2014

The Shop

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 28, 2018

Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 28, 2022

Trailblazer Honors

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 27, 2014

The View

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 11, 1997

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 08, 2015

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 21, 2003

The Kominsky Method

as Himself

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 16, 2018

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 22, 2018

Explained

as Self (archive footage)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 23, 2018

Sherri

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 2022

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 26, 2003

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