He is popular as the former correspondent for NBC News. He was also the reporter of NBC Nightly News, TODAY, and NBCNews.com and so on. He also anchored in several of MSNBC programs. Talented and sedulous, Luke Russert was born in the mid-1980s in Washington, D.C., the United States of America to parents, Timothy J. Russert and Maureen Orth. He was born and raised in an upper-class family. He is an American and belongs to white ethnicity.