Rebecca Makonnen is a Canadian television and radio broadcaster, currently host of the weekly talk and interview series De l'huile sur le feu on Ici Radio-Canada Première.
[1] She was born in Ethiopia to Adunya Makonnen, a medical doctor married to Virginie Michaud, a Canadian nurse from New Brunswick who was working in the country.
[4] After studying journalism at Concordia University,[5] she began her career as a production assistant at MusiquePlus in 1999, transitioning to an on-air role as a VJ and reporter in 2000.
[6] In 2006 she joined TQS as a reporter on the entertainment news magazine Flash,[7] and joined Radio-Canada in 2008 as an arts reporter for the Ici Radio-Canada Première morning show C'est bien meilleur le matin and the Ici Radio-Canada Télé arts magazine On fait tous du show business,[5] and host of the music television show Studio 12.
She also voiced the character of Ana Harvey in the French version of the animated television series Doomsday Brothers (Les Frères Apocalypse).