Serena Yang Serena Yang Serena Yang is an American television journalist, producer and documentary film director, best known for her series "Eye of the Beholder" on the Discovery HD Channel and the Travel Channel, and her role as the West Coast Correspondent of CNN’s "World Beat". A former international correspondent for CNN, Yang was a writer, producer and reporter for E! Entertainment Television’s "E! Features". Some of her notable interviews are Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, Sydney Pollack, Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, John Cleese, Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey. Yang
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