| Penn Holderness | |
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| Born: | October 13, 1974 |
| Birth Hometown: | Durham, North Carolina |
| Occupation: | Video Creator |
| Known for: | Making parodies on the Holderness Family channel on YouTube |
Penn Holderness was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, to a Presbyterian minister and a public school teacher. He graduated from Durham's Charles E. Jordan High School, where he played basketball, and was a choral music student at the residential Governor's School of North Carolina (East). He is on the board of directors of the Governor's School Foundation. In 1996 he graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in philosophy. His first on-air journalism job was in Grand Junction, Colorado, followed by five years in Orlando. From 2003-05, he hosted three seasons of Designer Finals on HGTV. He hosted a college basketball show on CSTV with former University of North Carolina basketball coach Matt Doherty. Penn also worked as a video essayist for ABC and ESPN while living in New York before returning to North Carolina, where he anchored the evening news for WNCN-TV. He has a brother, Dale.
Penn and Kim met in Orlando while working in local news and were married in 2005. After careers in journalism, they worked for Greenroom Communications, a video production company. They are creative consultants at Walk West, a Raleigh-based marketing and advertising firm. They formed their own company, Holderness Family Productions, in 2013. Kim is Chief Executive Officer and Penn is Chief Creative Officer. They both appeared in small roles in the 2013 film Iron Man 3, as news reporters.
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