Elizabeth Buckley Harrold O’Donnell: Lawrence O’Donnell’s Daughter

Elizabeth Buckley Harrold O’Donnell is the only child of MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and former actress Kathryn Harrold. Unlike her parents, she has no public career and lives a private life, so most details about her education, work, and family are not publicly confirmed.

Full name	Elizabeth Buckley Harrold O’Donnell
Parents	Lawrence O’Donnell, Kathryn Harrold
Known for	Daughter of Lawrence O’Donnell and Kathryn Harrold
Public career / personal details	Not publicly confirmed

Contents

1. 1Family
2. 2Her parents’ public work, kept separate
3. 3Privacy

Family

Her parents, Lawrence O’Donnell and Kathryn Harrold, married on 14 February 1994 and divorced in 2013. Those dates describe her parents’ marriage, not a biography of Elizabeth herself. Elizabeth is their only child, and that parentage is the verified core fact about her.

Her parents’ public work, kept separate

A common source of confusion about Elizabeth is her mother’s later career. Kathryn Harrold moved from acting into licensed marriage and family therapy work in California. That therapy career belongs to Kathryn, not to Elizabeth, and it should not be attributed to Elizabeth.

Her father, Lawrence O’Donnell, is a public figure in his own right. He has hosted MSNBC’s “The Last Word” since 2010, and before that he worked as a Senate aide and as a writer-producer on “The West Wing.” That public record belongs to Lawrence, not to Elizabeth, and it is included here only to explain why her name is searched for.

Privacy

Elizabeth has not sought the spotlight, has no confirmed public career or social-media presence, and further personal detail about her is not publicly confirmed. No birth date, birthplace, education, career, spouse, or net worth is stated here for Elizabeth, because none of those details is reliably confirmed for her.