Matthew Todd Lauer is an American television personality, best known as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show (since 1994) after being a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He was also host of PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980-1986) and worked for ESPN in the 1980s as a sideline reporter.

Matt Lauer completed his degree in communications at Ohio University (1997).

In 1999, he was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program, covering the 1998 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Lauer was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of parents Marilyn and Robert Lauer, who divorced during his youth.

He was married from 1982 until 1989 to Nancy Alspaugh, a television producer. The marriage ended in divorce and the couple had no children. From 1989 until 1996, he dated Kristen Gesswein, a television newscaster. They were briefly engaged. In 1998, he married Annette Roque, a Dutch model. They now have three children.

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