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Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver was born on November 6, 1955. She is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience". She was formerly First Lady of California as the wife of actor and then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, from whom she separated in 2011. She is a member of the Kennedy family. Her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver was John F. Kennedy's sister.
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