Sophie Raworth (pronounced /'ɹeɪ.wəθ/) (born 15 May 1968) is an English news reader and television presenter best known for presenting the BBC's One O'Clock News, currently on maternity leave.
She has blonde hair.
She grew up in London, attending Putney High School and then St Paul's Girl's School where she took her A-Levels.
Enjoys photography, art, cinema, skiing and lives in West London.
Studied French and German at Manchester University. As part of her course she spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse.
Her first TV appearance was at the age of fourteen when she appeared briefly in a BBC report for "Nationwide" (1969) about her mother's bee-keeping enterprise. A few years later, she was one of several teenagers to be interviewed by TV-AM in a feature on "Good Morning Britain" (1984)_ about pocket money.
Co-presented BBC "Breakfast News" (1989) with Jeremy Bowen from 1997-1999.
First child, a daughter with husband Richard was born on May 20, 2004. Ella Rose Winter was born at 3am at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, weighing 9lb 4oz.
Has presented BBC "Six O'Clock News" (1984) since 2002.
