Angela d audrey biography

New Zealand television news anchor and actress

Angela Louise D'Audney (née Cerdan, 26 August 1944 – 6 February 2002) was a New Zealand television news anchor and occasional actress. She became known as New Zealand's “first lady of broadcasting” and was the first woman to regularly anchor nationwide news bulletins on New Zealand television in 1973.

In a career spanning four decades, she presented news regularly for TVNZ until 1997 and occasionally until 2001, when failing health forced her to leave her role at the broadcaster.^[2]

Early life

She was born Angela Louise Cerdan in London, to a Jewish American mother, Cecile Evelyn Cerdan (née Cohen) and a Spanish father, Ramon Cerdan Pla.^[3] D'Audney spent the first years of her life in Brazil, before moving with her family to Auckland in the early 1950s.

She was homeschooled and developed a love for languages, also learning her Orthodox grandmother's native Yiddish.^{[4][5&# Angela D'Audney and her 'wonderful life' - NZ Herald VIP}