Charlie Rose

(CBS)  Charlie Rose has been a correspondent for 60 Minutes II since the broadcast debuted on the CBS Television Network in January 1999. Rose continues to serve as host and executive editor of "The Charlie Rose Show," the daily hour-long late-night interview program which airs on PBS stations across the country.

For 60 Minutes II, he has interviewed a range of celebrities and presented profiles ranging from Formula One racecar driver Michael Schumacher to Libyan leader Muhammar Qaddafi to skateboarder Tony Hawk and musician Dave Matthews.

"The Charlie Rose Show" premiered on Sept. 30, 1991 and became nationally syndicated in January 1993. Rose has engaged an extraordinary range of interviewees for "Charlie Rose," from the worlds of politics, literature, the visual and performing arts, science, business and sports. His guests have included Nelson Mandela, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Toni Morrison and Martin Scorsese, among hundreds of others. He has also hosted other outside projects, including a special for the Discovery Channel, "One on One with Roger Payne," for which he won a 1992 Emmy Award.

Before launching his PBS program, Rose worked for CBS News (1984-90) as the anchor of "Nightwatch," the Network's first late-night news broadcast. He won a 1987 Emmy Award for his interview with convicted mass murderer Charles Manson. He also occasionally served as a substitute anchor for FACE THE NATION, the CBS MORNING NEWS, "CBS This Morning" and NEWSBREAK, and he reported for 48 HOURS.

Rose created, produced and hosted "The Charlie Rose Show" for KXAS-TV Dallas/Ft. Worth (1979-81) and secured its national syndication in 1981 by moving the program to Washington, D.C., where it was broadcast on WRC-TV, the NBC owned station (1981-84). He also hosted and produced a daily hourlong talk show, co-hosted "AM/Chicago" for WLS-TV Chicago (1978-79) and served as a correspondent for NBC News in Washington (1976-77).

Rose was the executive producer of the PBS series "Bill Moyers' Journal" (1975-76) and served as a correspondent for "USA: People and Politics," Moyers' weekly PBS series on the 1976 political campaign, for which Rose received a Peabody Award. He entered television journalism full time as managing editor of "Bill Moyers' International Report" on PBS (1974-75).