Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American television journalist and news anchor. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV. Her first job was with the Asbury Park Press as a reporter.
Career
Battle won a 2005 New York Regional Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the U.S. presidential primary edition of WNBC-TV's What Matters.
She appeared as herself on the Netflix series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and is set to appear in a second-season episode of Peacock's Girls5eva.
Personal life
Battle is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, and is married to Anthony Johnson, a reporter with WABC-TV, a competing New York City television station. In October 2010, she publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a lumpectomy.
Filmography
Film
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| 2011
| New Year's Eve
| Reporter
| "Times Square" segment; first major film acting debut
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| 2012
| The Bourne Legacy
| MSNBC anchor
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| 2022
| The Batman
| Newscaster
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Television
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| 2012
| 30 Rock
| Herself
| 1 episode (season 7, episode 8: My Whole Life Is Thunder), appeared alongside fellow WNBC colleague Sue Simmons.
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| 2015
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
| Herself
| 1 episode (season 1, episode 4: Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!); credited as Patricia Battle.
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| 2022
| Girls5eva
| Herself
| 2 episodes (season 2, episode 1: Album Mode, season 2, episode 7: Returnity).
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See also
- List of American print journalists
- List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey
- List of people from New York City
- List of people from Philadelphia
- List of television reporters
- List of University of Maryland, College Park people