Lynsey Addario

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
November 13, 1973

Place of Birth:
Norwalk, Connecticut, USA

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Lynsey Addario

Biography

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist. She began photographing professionally for the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina in 1996. In the late 1990s, she began freelancing in New York City for the Associated Press, where she worked consistently for three years before moving to New Delhi, India, to cover South Asia for the Chrstian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and Houston Chronicle. In 2000, Addario first traveled to Afghanistan to document life and oppression of women living under the Taliban, and made three separate trips to the country under Taliban rule before September 11, 2001. Since then, Addario has covered conflicts, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine. In 2015, she wrote a New York Times best-selling memoir, It's What I Do.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Love+War Self - Photojournalist
2020 The Way I See It Self
2016 Refugee Self
2016 Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro Self
Year TV Show Role
2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Self
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