Background
Crook was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.
Crook was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.
She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese and Russian languages.
She is best known for her work on The Nashville Network programs This Week In Country Music and Crook & Chase with Charlie Chase. An award-winning television personality, Crook occasionally hosts Offstage with Lorianne Crook, a series of in-depth conversations with major country music artists for Great American Country (Global Assembly Cache). Subjects have included Kenny Chesney and Trace Adkins, Philosophy Vassar, Cowboy Troy and the band Lonestar.
Foreign a brief time, she was co-host of Candid Camera.
Before her big break as a television personality, she worked at KAUZ-television, the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate in Wichita Falls, Texas/Lawton, Oklahoma in the 1980s.