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Widely recognized as one of the most talented and opinionated network-TV
tennis announcers, Mary Carillo achieved a longtime personal goal by joining the HBO
Sports' broadcast team in 1996 to work her first-ever Wimbledon assignment. Carillo
joined broadcasting partners Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, John Lloyd, Barry
MacKay and host Jim Lampley in providing commentary and analysis on the network's
coverage of the Wimbledon Championships. Her duties for three years included
hosting the daily one-hour prime time highlights program.
In 1997 she made her debut as a correspondent on REAL SPORTS WITH
BRYANT GUMBEL, HBO's monthly magazine-styled program. In May of 2006, Carillo
earned a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Long Feature for the inspiring story of
the Hoyt Family.
A network broadcaster for two decades, Carillo began her broadcasting career in
1980 as an analyst for USA Network. She also worked a host of tournaments for ESPN.
In 1986 she joined CBS Sports and has worked the U.S. Open every year since. Her CBS
duties expanded to include reporting assignments at the 1992, '94 and '98 Winter
Olympic Games.
She has served as a broadcaster for NBC Sports during the most recent Summer
and Winter Olympic Games and can be seen doing tennis for both broadcast and cable
networks.
For HBO's groundbreaking 1999 documentary, DARE TO COMPETE: THE
STRUGGLE OF WOMEN IN SPORTS, she served as co-writer with Frank Deford. The
efforts of Carillo and the rest of the documentary's contributors were rewarded with a
2000 George Foster Peabody Award.
She also worked on the 2006 HBO Sports documentary film "Billie Jean King:
Portrait of a Pioneer" as story advisor and interviewer.
Mary has been a mainstay on NBC's Olympic coverage, reporting on everything
from skiing to skeleton during the past eight games. She has also hosted a daily show
at the Athens Olympic Games for the Bravo network as well as hosted a figure skating
show, "Olympic Ice," for the USA Network from Torino, Italy.
Carillo played on the women's professional circuit from 1977 to 1980. She was
ranked as high as No. 33 when she retired. She won the French Open mixed doubles
title with her partner John McEnroe in 1977.
A former member of the Women's Tennis Association Board of Directors, Carillo
has been named "Best TV Commentator" by Tennis Magazine numerous times,
including the 1995 season.
A native of Queens, NY, Carillo lives in Naples, FL.
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