Name	Laurence Ferrari
Height
Naionality	Franch
Date of Birth	5-July-1966
Place of Birth	France
Famous for	Acting

Laurence Ferrari is a French journalist, best known as a former anchor of the TF1 weekday evening news Le 20H. She started her career in 1986 as a stringer at the French newsagency, AFP, and Le Figaro Magazine. She also worked at the French language radio station, Europe 1, as a researcher with special responsibility for health policy. She began her television career in 1994 with Michel Drucker in Studio Gabriel on France 2 and thereafter with Jean-Pierre Pernaut in "Combien ca coute?" on TF1. In 2001 she co-hosted the TF1 Sunday evening magazine Sept a Huit with her former husband, Thomas Hugues. After her divorce, she moved in 2006 to Canal + to present the channel's weekly political magazine "Dimanche +" where she covered the French presidential election of 2007.

In June 2008, she became the new anchor of "Le 20 Heures de TF1", replacing its long-serving anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and taking over the weekday programme on 25 August 2008. Ferrari incited controversy in 2010 by wearing a veil to interview Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ferrari presented her final 8pm newscast for TF1 on 31 May 2012, a day after announcing her resignation from the network in order to join Direct 8. Laurence Ferrari has been an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages since November 2003. In March 2007, along with other famous personalities including journalists Claire Chazal, Marie Drucker, Tina Keiffer, Beatrice Schonberg and Melissa Theuriau, she sponsored the La Rose Marie Claire project with UNICEF to help educate young girls.