All You Need To Know About American Correspondent Cara Santa Maria
Quick Information
- Ex-Boyfriend Bill Maher (2009-2011)
- Net Worth Not Disclosed
- Ethnicity/Race Hispanic
- Religion Catholic
- Sister/s 1
- High School Plano East Senior High School
- College University of North Texas
- Height/ How Tall? 5' 3" (160cm)
- Hair Long
- Hair Color Black-Brown
- Eye Color Brown
- Lesbian No
- Date of Birth Oct 19, 1983
- Age 41 Years, 1 Months
- Nationality American
- Profession Journalist
- Relationship Status Single
- Divorce/Split Not Yet
American science communicator, Cara Santa Maria made a series of successful choices in her career but her love affairs don't say the same.
Cara Santa Maria is mainly known for hosting the weekly science podcasts Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria and The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe.
The Height of Science: Cara Santa Maria explains the concept of GMO's and atheism-secularism to Dave Rubin from The Rubin Report (Published on 18 September 2015)
Cara has won many professional awards including the Annual Golden Mike Award in 2016 and Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Public Affairs in 2017.
Cara Santa Maria’s Bio: Age, Height & Early Life
An Emmy Award-winning journalist, Cara Santa Maria was born on 19 October 1983 to an Italian father and Puerto Rican mother. She grew up in Texas with her elder sister. Her relationship with dad was quite strained after her parents divorced when she was six.
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The media science expert, Cara is a beautiful woman with a perfect height of 5 feet 3 inch and also embracing a piercing ring in her lip.
At the young age, Cara started experimenting with drugs and was diagnosed with depression. Cara said that she had years of psychotherapy which made a considerable improvement in her mental health.
The beautiful science communicator graduated from the Plano East Senior High School and further joined the University of North Texas and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology with a minor in philosophy. She did master’s degree in biology from Texas. She even started a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology at the City University of New York but dropped out it after one year and moved to Los Angeles.
Cara Santa Maria's Branching Career
She began her career in journalism by writing a blog for ‘The Huffington Post’ in March 2010, and later she joined as a science correspondent. After she had started with the media, she made appearances on Top TV stations including Fox, CBS, CNN, and BBC.
Cara also created and hosted the show called ‘Talk Nerdy to Me’ from 2011 to 2013. She also co-hosted ‘Take Part Live’ with Jacob Soboroff on Pivot TV.
Cara has won some prestigious awards including; Give Forward Award, three Emmy Awards, Annual Golden Mike Award. She currently hosts her podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts ‘The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe’ podcast.
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With her excellence in her career, she enjoys the net worth, which has not been revealed in exact figures.
Cara Santa Maria Spoke At Summer TCA Tour
In July 2018, Cara spoke onstage during the National Geographic portion of the Summer 2018 TCA (Television Critics Association) Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
All the Elites: Cara Santa Maria speaks onstage at TCA Press Tour with Albert Lin, Mariana van Zeller, Phil Keoghan and Sal Masekela of 'Explorer' on 24 July 2018 (gettyimagesnorthamerica.com)
The Television Critics Association serves its membership of full-time TV critics, many of whom do not live near the entertainment capitals of New York and Los Angeles.
TCA organizes a press tour twice a year and represents an opportunity to gain access to the people who make appearances on television.
The members that report at press tour create story material that is valuable to face contacts with network executives, actors, and producers.
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Cara was accompanied by award-winning scientist Albert Lin, Portuguese journalist Mariana van Zeller, New Zealand tv personality Phil Keoghan, and sports commentator Sal Masekela at the Press Tour as each put forward their words to cover television programming.
Cara Santa Maria’s Love Life
The beautiful science communicator, through all the struggles, has been able to establish herself as a noteworthy person in the field of journalism and science.
Cara is indeed different from other women that you have seen on TV as she is more of a nerd and enjoys to discuss things that an ordinary person wouldn’t feel comfortable to hear. It is by no doubt that the beauty of Cara mixed with her appealing voice could make any man attracted to her.
However, she has a dating life of her own.
The podcaster once dated an old man named Bill Maher in 2009. Her then-boyfriend is known to be a wise man, who has multiple dating affairs. Her relationship with playboy pundit Bill Maher, a journalist, created a lot of buzzes at the time. Back in 2010, they were spotted together arriving at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington.
How Intimate: Cara poses for the camera with her ex-boyfriend, Bill Maher (Source: SCMP.com)
The duo even planned to get married together. However, the couple parted their ways with a mutual decision after being together in a relationship for two years. Cara told that Bill is the one who encouraged her to go on television. She also confirmed that the split was mutual and amicable and they will continue to be friends and work together in the future.
Bill also confirmed stating that breakups are always tough especially with a wondrous person like Cara, and wants her to remain committed to her media science career.
After her breakup with Bill, she reportedly dated the comedian and director, Seth MacFarlane but there was still lack of further proofs to confirm their dating scene. As of now, the excellent podcaster is not married yet, and there are no any rumors on whether she is in any dating affairs at the moment.