{{Short description|American weather anchor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Maria Quiban |image = |caption = |birth_name = <!-- Valid citation required for full name for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> |birth_date = <!-- Valid citation required for date of birth for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> |birth_place = Cebu City, Philippines |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |citizenship = United States |education = Mississippi State University (BS) |other_names = |employer = KTTV/KCOP-TV 2000–present |occupation = Meteorologist/TV Anchor |years_active = 1991–present |spouse = {{marriage|Brian Messner|1999|2001|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Sean Whitesell|2009|2015|end=died}} |parents = |children = 2 |relatives = |website = {{URL|mariaquiban.com}} |known_for = |awards = }} '''Maria Quiban''' is an American weather anchor for KTTV in Los Angeles, California.
==Early life== Quiban was born in Cebu City, Philippines, and moved to Hawaii at age 10 with her mother and her brother.<ref name="mq">{{cite web |title=About Me |url=https://www.mariaquiban.com/about-me/ |website=Maria Quiban |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref> She graduated from Aiea High School,<ref name=StarBulRoles>{{cite news |title=Former KHNL anchor takes on new roles in L.A. |url=https://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/09/28/news/whatever.html |access-date=November 14, 2025 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=September 28, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926070052/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/09/28/news/whatever.html |archive-date=September 26, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> studied journalism at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and earned a degree in meteorology from Mississippi State University.
== Career == Quiban worked for the local NBC affiliate KHNL in Honolulu<ref name="StarBulRoles" /> before moving in 1998 to Los Angeles to work as the weather anchor for the Orange County Newschannel. In 2000, she accepted employment as the weather anchor/meteorologist for KTTV.<ref name="StarBulRoles" />
Quiban has appeared in numerous television shows and films playing a reporter including ''Bruce Almighty'', ''Cold Case'', ''Everybody Hates Chris'', ''Criminal Minds'' and ''Ryan's Mystery Playdate''. She played the role of a murder victim in the film ''Blood Work''.<ref name=StarBulRoles />
In 2020, Quiban released her book ''You Can't Do It Alone: A Widow's Journey Through Loss, Grief, and Life After''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tangcay |first=Jazz |date=June 20, 2020 |title=''Good Day LA'' Meteorologist Maria Quiban on Grief and Reporting from Home |url=https://variety.com/2020/artisans/news/good-day-maria-quiban-new-book-you-cant-do-it-alone-1234641596/}}</ref>
==Personal life== Quiban had a son when she was in high school. On September 9, 1999, she married Brian Messner.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Donnelly |first1=Dave |title=Rodman, Electra a flashy twosome |url=https://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/20/features/donnelly.html |access-date=November 14, 2025 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=September 20, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921002052/http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/20/features/donnelly.html |archive-date=September 21, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Her third husband, Sean Whitesell, died of glioblastoma multiforme on December 28, 2015.<ref>[http://www.foxla.com/good-day/good-day-la-features/7741333-story "Maria Quiban's Personal Story to Raise Awareness for Glioblastoma", by Maria Quiban and Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio, FOX11 News] November 19, 2015. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160324113927/https://www.foxla.com/good-day/good-day-la-features/7741333-story Archived] from the original on March 24, 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.foxla.com/good-day/good-day-la-features/112464536-story Fox News LA: "Welcome back Maria Quiban!" by Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio] March 23, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/201742172-story Fox News LA: "Midday Sunday: Raising awareness for glioblastoma"] September 4, 2016</ref> They had one son, Gus Whitesell.<ref name=VarietyObit>[https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/sean-whitesell-dead-dies-1201670439/ Variety Magazine: "Sean Whitesell, Producer for ''Oz'', ''House'', ''The Killing'', Dies at 52" by Carmel Dagan] December 31, 2015</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.foxla.com/about-us/anchors-and-reporters/6319837-story KTTV Fox 11 On-Air Talent Bios] * [http://www.facebook.com/mquiban Maria Quiban Facebook Page] * {{twitter|MariasEarth}} * {{IMDb name|id=0703419|name=Maria Quiban}}
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