An alumna of Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, she graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in public policy and studied economics in a graduate program on a full scholarship from the German government at the University of Freiburg.
Since 1998 she has been a reporter for both American Broadcasting Company News and WABC-television, as well as a weekend morning anchor for WABC-television"s Eyewitness News and is probably best known for an award-winning series of reports about her battle with skin cancer, which aired on both WABC-television and American Broadcasting Company"s Good Morning America. She was an anchor and reporter at WNCN-television in North Carolina from 1996 to 1998. Her daughter is named Isabelle Marlene, after the hurricane that hit Charlesworth"s wedding on the Jersey Shore.
She was recently on a long list of WABC-television reporters in line to replace fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein.
Another candidate for the anchor seat was reporter Lisa Colagrossi. Ken Rosato became the co-anchor with Lori Stokes on July 6, 2007.
Charlesworth continues to substitute regularly for Ken Rosato or Lori Stokes, thus prompting others, including Toni Yates, and, prior to her death, Lisa Colagrossi to fill in for her on the Weekend Morning broadcasts with Rob Nelson.
