Elisabeth Murdoch (businesswoman)

Elisabeth Murdoch (businesswoman)

Elisabeth Murdoch (born on 22 August 1968) is an executive in the British television industry and international media mogul. She is the Chairman and CEO of Shine Limited, a television production company with offices in London and Manchester. She was born in Sydney, Australia.

Named after her philanthropist grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, she is Rupert Murdoch's second daughter and the eldest of three children born of his second marriage in 1967 to former employee Anna Torv, a Roman Catholic native of Glasgow, Scotland. She attended schools in New York City, at one of which she set up an on-campus television station as a student project.