Bree Walker Biography and Wiki
Bree Walker is an American radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist. She achieved fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly. Walker served as a news anchor and reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles.
Bree Walker Age
Walker is 70 years as of 2023. She was born Patricia Lynn Nelson on 26 February 1953, in Oakland, California, United States. She celebrates her birthday on every 26th Feb.
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Bree Walker Height and Weight
Bree stands at an approximated height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m). Information regarding her other body measurements is currently under research.
Bree Walker Parents and Siblings
Walker was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Austin, Minnesota. Bree’s information regarding her parents and siblings is still under research and we will update this information as soon as possible.
Bree Walker Husband and Children
Walker has been married and divorced three times. She has a daughter named Andrea Layne Walker (born August 12, 1988) with her second husband, independent film and video producer Robert Walker, and a son named Aaron James Lampley with her third husband, news anchor and sportscaster Jim Lampley. Her surname is taken from her second husband.
Bree Walker My Unique Family
She and her children were featured on an episode of TLC’s My Unique Family; she refuses to answer questions about rumors that she has silicone lip implants. Her son and daughter both have ectrodactyly; she reacted very strongly on her blog to Oprah Winfrey’s implication that a “normal” child would have all their fingers and their toes.
Bree Walker KPRI
Established and well into her career at the ABC affiliate KGTV Channel 10 in San Diego, after previously holding her hands covered inside a pair of glove-like prothetic ones, Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly. She continued her newscasting career at KGTV with them now clearly visible, then moved to the KPRI FM rock station. She started her television career as a consumer advocate reporter at KGTV in 1980.
Bree Walker Movies and Shows
In acting, Walker has also dabbled, starring as herself in the end-of-the-world science-fiction thriller, Without Notice (credited as Bree Walker-Lampley but referred to as Bree Walker on screen), and in The Chase as a TV reporter, Wendy Sorenson. She also guest-starred to talk about her condition in an episode of the PBS children’s series, Reading Rainbow.
Walker found that no cast member has ectrodactyly while watching the 2003 season of Carnivàle, an HBO television series about a Depression-era carnival moving through the Dust Bowl. She applied for, made, auditioned, and won the role of Sabina the Scorpion Lady. During the 2005 season, her portrayal of Sabina appeared in three episodes. As the series probed societal views toward people with highly noticeable disabilities, she revealed her webbed hands. She based Sabina on characters she knew existed in the 1920s and 1930s carnival sideshows with names like “Lobster Girl” or “Lobster Boy.” These were typically the best jobs people with ectrodactyly could have, with most others being hidden away.
Walker extended her acting career in 2006 by appearing as an inspirational woman with ectrodactyly on the fourth-season premiere of Nip/Tuck.
For the feature-length documentary film, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio, which was first screened in April 2012, Walker shares the on-camera narrator duties with Jon Elliott. It looks at the diminishing number of companies that regulate much of what Americans watch on TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines watch and listen to. It was over four years in the making and was produced by MondayMEDIA, distributed by Jon Monday and Jennifer Douglas.
Bree Walker Hands | Ectrodactyly
Walker was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Austin, Minnesota. She inherited ectrodactyly, a rare genetic condition, resulting in missing fingers and toes and syndactyly resulting in them being fused together.
Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly after previously keeping her hands hidden inside a pair of glove-like prosthetic ones. With them now clearly visible, she continued her newscasting career at KGTV, then moving to the rock station KPRI FM.
Bree Walker Awards and Achievements
Walker was nominated and inducted into the San Diego Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010 a collaboration between the Women’s Museum of California, Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women’s Center, and San Diego State University Women’s Studies.
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