Harris Faulkner is an award-winning American television anchor, best known for her long-running career at Fox News Channel. Since joining the network in 2005, she has become a key figure in its daytime and primetime lineups. She hosts The Faulkner Focus, co-hosts Outnumbered, and leads her political franchise, Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner. Her work has earned six Emmy Awards, including honors for Best Newscaster and Best News Special.
Born on October 13, 1965, in Atlanta, Georgia, she was raised in a military family and spent part of her childhood on a U.S. base in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her father, Lt. Colonel Bobby R. Harris, was a highly decorated Army aviator who served three tours in Vietnam. Faulkner earned her B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and built her career through local news, earning early accolades in Minnesota.
While her professional achievements are widely covered, her personal life has also drawn interest over the years. In the following sections, we take a closer look at her marriage, her husband, and their family life together.
Who Is Harris Faulkner’s Husband? How Did They Meet?
Faulkner has been married to Tony Berlin since April 12, 2003. Their relationship began in Minneapolis, where Faulkner anchored the evening news for an ABC affiliate and Berlin worked as an investigative reporter at CBS.
It all started when Berlin spotted her in a TV promo and asked a mutual friend at her station to introduce them. Faulkner agreed to meet him at that friend’s birthday party, only to be greeted by Berlin and his date. “I thought, ‘That takes some gall,’” she later recalled with a laugh.
Despite the rocky first impression, they kept in touch. For six months, Faulkner kept him firmly in the friend zone before eventually agreeing to a proper date on May 10, 2001—a night she still calls her “last first date.”
Just over a year later, Berlin proposed to Faulkner to be his wife on the edge of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. While skipping rocks together, he handed her a velvet ring box and got down on one knee. They married the following spring in Arizona, surrounded by family and friends.
While their careers have often intersected—Berlin worked in TV for 15 years before launching his PR firm in 2011—their personal lives blend two faiths. Faulkner attends a community Baptist church, while Berlin is Jewish.
Though different in religious background, they’ve built their home around mutual respect and shared traditions. “We share every meal. We share a prayer,” Faulkner told The Washington Times. They celebrate Christian holidays, observe Passover, and read from the Haggadah with their two daughters, finding unity in their differences.
Harris Has Two Daughters with Her Husband, Berlin
Faulkner and her husband, Tony Berlin, are parents to two daughters—Bella and Danika—who’ve grown up mostly outside the media glare. Their first child, Bella, was born on December 9, 2006, followed by Danika on May 1, 2009.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Faulkner described raising her “biracial babies” as a profound blessing, adding, “I’m with someone who is religiously Jewish and racially different from me. We look like a Benetton ad from the 1990s—very colorful.”
While the couple occasionally shares family moments on social media, they’ve remained intentional about keeping their daughters’ lives mostly private. Bella reached a major milestone in June 2025 when she graduated from high school, a proud moment both parents quietly celebrated online.
