Anne-Élise Schwartz, known professionally as Anne Sinclair, is a French-American television and radio interviewer. Born on July 15, 1948, in New York City to Joseph-Robert Schwartz and Micheline Nanette Rosenberg, she is the heiress to the fortune of her maternal grandfather, art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
Anne Sinclair's parents, both French-born Jews, had married before World War II and fled France after the 1940 Nazi invasion. They returned to France a few years after her birth, and she attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. She majored in politics at Sciences Po and in law at the University of Paris.
Sinclair's first radio hosting job was at Europe 1, a leading nationwide radio network. Between 1984 and 1997, she hosted the weekly Sunday evening news and political show 7/7 on TF1, which had one of the largest audiences in France. During this period, she conducted over 500 interviews with leading French and international personalities, including French presidents François Mitterrand and Nicolas Sarkozy, US president Bill Clinton, and UN Secretary General.
After leaving 7/7, Sinclair created an Internet subsidiary company for TF1 and ran it for four years before returning to journalism. In 2003, she launched a cultural radio program called Libre Cours on France Inter, the French equivalent of NPR. She has also written bestsellers on politics, including Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'eux and Caméra Subjective.
Sinclair was married to French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn from 1991 to 2013, and was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York.
