Dara Brown

Dara Brown was a news anchor and senior producer for MSNBC.com. In 2006, she became an alternating host of Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC. She is currently a news anchor for NEWS12 New Jersey.

Biography

Born Dara Evans Brown, she is the daughter of Karen and David E. Brown. Dara has a son named Hayden, and a daughter named Victoria. As a child, Brown starred as the title character in the first national tour of the musical Annie. Brown graduated in 1983 from Wall [High School (New Jersey)|Wall High School] in Wall Township, New Jersey. She is a graduate of New [York University].
In 1999, she married Matthew Schmid in a Lutheran ceremony in Manasquan, New Jersey. The pair divorced in 2014.