Justine Shapiro
| Justine Shapiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 20, 1963 South Africa |
| Occupation | Actress, TV travel host, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, writer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Website | Justine Shapiro profile |
Justine Shapiro (born March 20, 1963) is South African born North American actress, filmmaker, writer, hostess and producer, who is one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet).
Television and film career
Before hosting Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides, Shapiro appeared in various roles in film and television. Eventually, she was involved in several documentaries including co-production/direction duties on 2001's Promises, which was nominated for best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards.
She produced and directed a feature-length documentary entitled Our Summer in Tehran.
In 2013 she became host of "Time Team America", shown on PBS.[1]
Personal
Shapiro grew up in Berkeley, California.[2]
Shapiro is a survivor of the World Airways Flight 30 airplane crash at Boston's Logan Airport on January 23, 1982.[3]
During an October 2006 broadcast of the Globe Trekker Venice City Guide episode, Shapiro revealed that she went to Tufts University (majoring in history and theater)[2] with Oliver Platt, who recognized her in the crowd, while she was covering the Venice Film Festival, where Platt was promoting Casanova.
In her lead up to a Globe Trekker visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp she stated "Like many Jewish Americans, I have Polish roots. And the Auschwitz concentration camp was where many of my relatives died during World War II."[4][dead link]
In Globe Trekker's "South Africa 2", Shapiro and co-host Sami Sabiti traveled to South Africa. While in Soweto, Shapiro visited the nanny she had as a child.[5]
References
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- ↑ http://www.pilotguides.com/tv_shows/globe_trekker/shows/specials/world-war2.php
- ↑ Globe Trekker TV Shows: South Africa 2, Pilot TV Shows, 2007. Archived August 13, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Official biography
- Globe Trekker: South Africa with Justine Shapiro a Washington Post chat transcript
- Internet Movie Database: Justine Shapiro
- Time Team America Host
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- American film actresses
- American Jews
- American television actresses
- South African people
- Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents
- Travel broadcasters
- Tufts University alumni
- American people of Polish-Jewish descent
- American people of South African-Jewish descent
- South African emigrants to the United States
