Elisabeth Murdoch is one of the most popular and richest Family Member who was born on August 22, 1968 in Australia, Australia. Best known as the daughter of media and television executive Rupert Murdoch, she founded and headed her own English television production company, Shine Limited.
The daughter of Rupert Murdoch and Anna Murdoch Mann, she was named for her paternal grandmother, philanthropist Elisabeth Greene Murdoch.
Elisabeth Murdoch (born 22 August 1968) is an Australian-born American media executive based in the United Kingdom. Murdoch is the second daughter of Australian-born American multi-billionaire media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She was a non-executive chairperson of Shine Group, the UK-based TV programme production company she founded in 2001, until the company’s parent, her father’s 21st Century Fox on 1 January 2015 merged its Shine division with ApolloGlobal Management’s Endemol and Core Media production houses, specializing in reality TV.
Murdoch moved with Pianim to the United Kingdom where Rupert Murdoch was running BSkyB after forcing a 1990 merger with BSB. The early years of BSkyB saw a haemorrhage of cash from Murdoch’s News Corporation funds. To help turn around the financial fortunes of the company, New Zealand television executive Sam Chisholm was brought on board to manage the day-to-day operations and build the subscriber base, with Elisabeth Murdoch as his second-in-command and de facto apprentice. By the time Chisholm left the company, BSkyB was the most profitable company in the United Kingdom. As managing director, Elisabeth oversaw BSkyB’s £12 million sponsorship of the troubled Millennium Dome, to the relief of its Cabinet overseer, Peter Mandelson. However, she also faced criticism after brokering her father’s failed £623.4 million bid for England’s champion Manchester United team.
Her first husband was Ghanaian businessman Elkin Kwesi Pianim; she later married Matthew Freud (the grandchild of the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud). Her two marriages resulted in a total of three daughters and one son.
