Alabama NewsCenter — Former Alabama news anchor Malena Cunningham Anderson forging a career in acting

By: Alec Harvey

Malena Cunningham Anderson was a fixture on Birmingham airwaves as a news anchor at NBC 13 for about a dozen years before leaving the anchor desk in 2004, staying in Alabama another decade as a media consultant and exercise franchise owner.

And though she left Birmingham for Pennsylvania (and now Atlanta) in 2014, she’s back on TV here in what she calls a “new season” of her life – as a professional actress.

Anderson, who will participate in a panel Friday at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Birmingham, has her biggest role to date, appearing in Lifetime Movie Network’s “Beware the Night Nurse.” It airs Sunday night on the cable network, but it’s also available on demand.

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