Anne-Claire Coudray was born in Rennes in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, and spent a part of her childhood in Locmariaquer, Morbihan, the native town of her maternal grandparents.
She reported the 2008 Summer Olympics, the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in France in September 2008, the United States presidential election of 2008, and even the French military parade on 14 July 2009.
In July 2012, she replaced Claire Chazal to present the afternoon and evening news on weekends and the program Reportages on TF1.
Since 2013 Anne-Claire Coudray has presented the military parade of 14 July on TF1, with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Claude Narcy in 2013 and with Louis Bodin and Denis Brogniart in 2014.
During the 2017 French presidential election, she hosted alongside Bouleau the debate between the top five candidates on 20 March,[3] as well as the program Demain Président in the lead-up to the first round.