Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1978-11-05

Place of Birth

Île-de-France, France

Mélanie Taravant

Biography

Mélanie Taravant is a prominent French journalist, television host, and anchor. Born on November 5, 1978, in Île-de-France, she is a former classical ballet dancer for the Paris Opera who transitioned to become a well-known face of public service television on France Télévisions.

Known for

Télématin

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

The World in Front

Weekly current affairs show

C médiatique

Mécaniques du journalisme

Syrie : la chute du clan Assad