Mo Rocca Bio, CBS 42, Age, Height, Parents, Spouse, Children, Salary, and Net Worth

Who is Mo Rocca?

American Humorist, Journalist, and Actor, Mo Rocca, works with CBS 42 where he serves the station as a correspondent. He is yet to disclose when he joined the station.

Mo Rocca
Mo Rocca

Mo Rocca Date of Birth / Age

Rocca is  54 years as of 2023. He was born on January 28, 1969.

Mo Rocca Height

Rocca is 5 feet and 9 inches tall.

Mo Rocca Parents and Siblings

Rocca was born in Washington, DC; His mother immigrated there in 1956 at the age of 28 from Bogotá, Colombia, and his father was a third-generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts.

Mo Rocca Spouse / Gay

Rocca took a while before coming clean about his sexuality. While doing a podcast interview on The Six Pack episode 73, he came out and revealed that he is gay. He also stated that he was single, and it is not yet known whether he has a partner. However, we will update this information once any significant information concerning this is available.

Mo Rocca Kids / Children

Details regarding whether or not Rocca has any children are not available to the public at the moment. However, we will update this information once any significant information concerning this is available.

Mo Rocca Education

Rocca went to Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit school for boys in North Bethesda, Maryland. In 1991 he graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in literature. He was president of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, appeared in four of the company’s popular burlesque, and co-wrote one (Swede Expectations). At Harvard, he also played Seymour in the production of Little Shop of Horrors opposite current Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Mo Rocca Career

write and do

Rocca began his acting career on stage while touring Southeast Asia for the musical Grease (1993) and South Pacific Paper Mill Playhouse (1994). His first television job was writing and producing the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning children’s television series Wishbone. He is also the writer for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss on Nickelodeon and Pepper Ann on ABC TV. 2011, he won an Emmy for writing at the 64th Tony Awards. Mo’s work has included campaign coverage for Indecision 2000 and a regular show called It’s Pretty Interesting. 2004, he was Larry King’s live correspondent at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Mo was a regular correspondent for The Tonight Show on NBC television from 2004 to 2008, covering the 2008 election for NBC.

Rocca is CBS’ regular Sunday morning correspondent with Jane Pauley. His work spans covers, articles, and profiles (like Chris Rock and Amy Schumer) with a focus on Presidential history. Regularly participates in the television show Wait, Wait…. Do not tell me! on the NPR radio network. In 2012, Rocca became a regular on the new CBS station This Morning. Rocca has turned his fascination with obituaries into a podcast called Mobituaries, currently in Season 3.

Author

Rocca’s satirical book All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over is about US Presidents, their pets, and reporters and was published by Crown Books in 2004. Rocca, who was inspired by her Mobituaries podcast, is the author of 2019’s Mobituaries, a book about underrated people in history like Elizabeth Jennings Graham.

Food and other TV shows

Rocca created and hosted My Grandmother’s Ravioli with CBS Eye Productions on The Cooking Channel from 2012 to 2015, during which she traveled the United States learning to cook with grandmas and grandpas in their kitchens. Mo previously hosted Food(ography) on the Cooking Channel and was a regular judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America.

Rocca was a commentator on the VH1 shows I Love the 70s and I Love the 80s. He hosted the Bravo channel Things I Hate About You and Whoa! Sunday, which premiered on the Animal Planet television network in 2005. He also had guest appearances on the television series Law & Order in 2008 in the episodes “Authority” (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and “Contract” (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Mo also hosts the weekly show The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, which has aired on Saturdays since 2014 as part of the CBS Dream Team Show. September 25, 2015. Rocca was the reader during the Holy Mass. celebrated by Pope Francis at Madison Square Garden in New York.

CBS 42

Mo Rocca works with CBS 42 where he serves alongside his fellow anchors, reporters, and meteorologists such as;

  1. Roxana Saberi
  2. Serena Altschul
  3. Brian Applegate
  4. Nate Burleson
  5. Susan Zirinsky
  6. Jericka Duncan
  7. Lana Zak
  8. Tony Dokoupil
  9. Jericka Duncan
  10. Lana Zak
  11. Holly Williams
  12. Seth Doane
  13. Bill Whitaker
  14. John Dickerson
  15. Anna Werner
  16. Adriana Diaz
  17. Omar Villafranca
  18. Charlie D’Agata
  19. Jonathan Vigliotti
  20. Jan Crawford
  21. Adam Verdugo
  22. Lee Cowan
  23. Peter Van
  24. Robert Costa
  25. Kris Van Cleave
  26. Nancy Cordes
  27. Judy Tygard
  28. Anderson Cooper
  29. Imtiaz Tyab
  30. Ingrid Matthews
  31. Shawna Thomas
  32. Martha Teichner
  33. Nancy Che

How Much Does Mo Rocca Earn?

Rocca earns an annual salary that ranges from $30,000-$170,000.

How Much is Mo Rocca Worth?

As a journalist and actor, Rocca has been able to accumulate a net worth of  $3 million.