Sunny Hostin

About

Asunción “Sunny” Cummings Hostin (; née Cummings; born October 20, 1968) is an American lawyer, author, and television host. She is a co-host on ABC’s morning talk show The View, for which she has received nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as the Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst for ABC News. She was also the host and executive producer of Investigation Discovery’s true crime series Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin.

Hostin was born on October 20, 1968, in New York City to a Puerto Rican mother, Rosa Beza, and an African American father, William Cummings. Her maternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew.
In 2024, on the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Hostin learned that she has a large amount of Spanish ancestry, is a descendant of Spanish colonists and her fourth great-grandfather was a slave trader. She is 7 percent indigenous Puerto Rican.
Hostin was raised in The Bronx, New York City, attended the all-girls Dominican Academy, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Rhetoric from Binghamton University and a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School.

Hostin began her career as a law clerk…