Samantha Brown
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| Samantha Elizabeth Brown | |
 Brown in an episode of Great Hotels |
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| Born | March 31, 1969 Dallas, Texas |
| Notable roles | Host of Passport to Europe, Great Hotels |
Samantha Elizabeth Brown is a TV host of several travel programs on the Travel Channel, including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Hotels, and Passport to Europe. She also hosted Great Vacation Homes on the CTV Travel channel (also subsequently aired on Travel Channel). In March of 2007, Brown's newest project will be another in the Travel Channel's Passport series, Passport to Latin America with Samantha Brown.
In her role of host she introduces viewers to vacation destinations, hotels and vacation homes in the U.S. and elsewhere, and explores the locations and activities these destinations offer. In July 2006, she announced plans to film a special on the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship.
Born in Dallas, Texas on March 31, 1969, her family soon moved to Derry, New Hampshire, where she grew up and graduated from Pinkerton Academy.[1] She took 12 years of voice lessons, and attended Syracuse University studying musical theater. Her early career included working in commercials, including playing the spokesperson "Wendy Wire" for a company called Century Cable. She is also involved in the comedy sketch group "Mouth," based in New York where she has lived for ten years. Her work in comedy is clearly apparent in the off-beat humor she brings to her travel shows. She has also appeared in several Broadway shows as an actress and singer.
Throughout 1999 and 2000 the Travel Channel was looking for a travel hostess; Brown was chosen after a series of auditions.
In her personal life, Brown announced her engagement to Kevin James O’Leary in January 2006.[2] They were married on October 28, 2006. O'Leary is a specialist in computer servers and hails from Cambridge, Maryland. She remains home during vacations as she travels much of the year.
[edit] Trivia
- She has appeared in the HP Pavilion "Computer is Personal Again" commercials, though her head was out of view as they were shot from her shoulders to her waist. In them she is called "super mom".
- Samantha Brown can also be seen as the spokesperson in the commercials for Champion Windows.
