Chris Hansen
Chris Hansen is an American television journalist. Born September 13, 1959, in Chicago. Educated at Michigan State University and Brother Rice High School.
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What Wikidata says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 2553920729
- Described as
- American television journalist (born 1959)
- Other names
- Christopher Edward Hansen, Christopher Hansen, Christopher E. Hansen, Chris Edward Hansen, Chris E. Hansen, Christopher Edward Hensen
- Born
- September 13, 1959
- Born in
- Chicago · 1 reference
- Name at birth
- Christopher Edward Hansen
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- journalist; television personality; YouTuber; television actor · 1 reference; film actor · 1 reference; voice actor · 1 reference
- Education
- Michigan State University; Brother Rice High School · 1 reference
- Spouse
- Mary Joan Hansen (–2018)
- Wikipedias with a page
- 41
Wikidata item Q562448 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q562448), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.
What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1384354410
Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), in which online predators would be apprehended by law enforcement using sting operations.
After parting ways with NBC in 2013, he began hosting Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery in 2015, a short-lived series that documented homicide investigations. That same year, he replaced Matt Doran as the host of the syndicated series Crime Watch Daily, which he hosted for two seasons. He also hosted his own segment similar to his Dateline feature, Hansen vs. Predator. He co-founded the true crime–oriented streaming service TruBlu in 2020, for which he produced and starred in the web series Takedown with Chris Hansen.
Hansen has earned several accolades, including ten Emmy Awards, five Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the National Press Club award, and awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International. Hansen and numerous subjects of his investigations have garnered online cult followings, and Hansen is considered a progenitor in content centered around sting operations.
In 2025, a documentary on his career, titled Predators, was distributed by MTV Entertainment Studios. In 2026, A24 released the film Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Hansen. Primetime is based on Hansen's work on To Catch a Predator, and a 2007 Esquire story on the show, "Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die".
- Born, in its opening lines
- September 13, 1959
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