Tucker Carlson Wife Susan Andrews: High School Crush to Lifelong Partner
If you’ve ever watched Tucker Carlson on TV or seen his name flying around the news and thought, OK, but who is the Tucker Carlson’s wife everyone mentions? — that’s Susan Andrews. She’s the girl he fell for at boarding school, the woman he married in his early twenties, and the person who has kept her life almost completely out of the spotlight while his has become one big lightning rod.
This is one of those stories where the public figure is loud and everywhere, and the person next to him is almost invisible on purpose.
How Tucker Met Susan
Tucker and Susan’s story starts at St. George’s School, a fancy boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. Tucker was there as a student; Susan was there as the headmaster’s daughter. Her father, Reverend George Andrews, ran the school — which already sounds like the setup for a novel.
They met as teenagers and started dating while they were still in school. Years later, Tucker has told the same story over and over: he noticed Susan in the tenth grade and thought she was “the cutest 10th grader in America.” He was smitten, basically, and they never really drifted apart after that.
For Susan, he was the upbeat, slightly eccentric kid with a bounce in his step. For him, she was the smart, grounded headmaster’s daughter. It’s not exactly a wild Hollywood meet-cute, but it fits who they both turned out to be: pretty traditional, very rooted in old institutions, and not huge fans of chaos in their personal lives.
The Wedding in the School Chapel
Fast-forward a few years. After high school, Tucker went off into journalism, first in print and then slowly into TV. Susan stayed close to her roots, working in education and church-related circles. When it was time to get married, they went back to where it all started.
In August 1991, they got married in the small chapel at St. George’s School. Same campus, same stone buildings, same New England backdrop — just with a lot more family and a wedding dress involved.
They were both in their early twenties, long before the bow tie, the Fox News monologues, or Tucker’s eventual jump into independent media. At that point, he was just a young reporter trying to build a career, and she was the person he’d basically grown up alongside.
Who Susan Andrews Is When She’s Not “Tucker’s Wife”
On paper, Susan’s full name is Susan Thomson Andrews Carlson. She was born in 1969 and grew up in a tight-knit, religious household. Her dad wasn’t just any priest; he was an Episcopal headmaster, which meant church and school and community life were all woven together.
Career-wise, Susan has worked as a teacher at an Episcopal school and has been involved with St. George’s as a board member. She knows the world of classrooms, parents’ evenings and school committees far better than she knows studio lights.
Here’s what she’s not: she’s not a pundit, she’s not an influencer, and she’s not the type of political spouse who pops up on talk shows. She rarely appears in interviews, doesn’t use her marriage to build a public platform, and seems genuinely content to keep her life centered around family and a small circle of institutions she trusts.
In short: Tucker is the face; Susan is the foundation.
Four Kids and a Very Deliberate Privacy Bubble
Tucker and Susan have four children: three daughters — Lillie, Hopie and Dorothy — and one son, Buckley. They were mostly raised away from cameras, and that was not an accident.
Tucker has joked in interviews about being strict at home: early curfews, limits on phones and social media, and a strong “this is how my parents did it” energy. Susan is the one who actually had to make that work day to day. She’s described as very hands-on and steady, the kind of parent who shows up at school events and keeps the family machine running while Tucker’s off in a studio somewhere.
Their only child who’s really drifted into public life is Buckley. He’s worked in politics and recently took a job on the communications team of a Republican vice president, which made some headlines purely because of his last name. Even then, you don’t see Susan talking about it; she stays in the background, like she always has.
How She’s Shaped Tucker’s Worldview
Tucker often talks about institutions and traditions — churches, old schools, old norms. It’s not hard to trace some of that back to Susan and the world they share.
Both of them grew up in the Episcopalian, East Coast, boarding-school universe. Both were shaped by the idea that there’s a right way to do things, and that your family, your church and your school anchor you in that. Susan stayed rooted in that world more literally, working in education and staying active at St. George’s, while Tucker translated it into commentary about culture and politics.
He’s also said that Susan has been a big part of keeping his faith alive. For someone who makes a living arguing, he tends to talk about his marriage in surprisingly soft terms — as something stable and old-fashioned that he values more than any TV slot.
When His Job Shows Up at Her Front Door
Of course, living with a polarizing public figure doesn’t stay theoretical forever.
In 2018, when Tucker was still hosting his primetime Fox show, protesters gathered outside the Carlson family home in Washington, D.C. Tucker was at the studio; Susan was alone in the house. She heard people shouting and banging on the front door and, thinking someone was trying to force their way in, locked herself in a pantry and called the police.
By the time officers arrived, the group had left, but they’d reportedly cracked the front door and spray-painted symbols and slogans on the driveway. Tucker later described Susan as shaken and scared, and it was a reminder that his nightly monologues didn’t just live on TV — they followed his family home.
That kind of moment is the trade-off for staying married to someone as visible and divisive as Tucker Carlson. Susan doesn’t give speeches, but she still bears some of the real-life consequences of his work.
About Those “Heiress” Rumors
You might have seen the claim that Susan is some kind of heiress. That’s mostly Internet telephone.
The actual “heiress” in Tucker’s extended family was his stepmother, from the Swanson frozen-food family. Susan herself comes from a comfortable, well-connected background — a headmaster father, elite schools, that sort of thing — but there’s no solid evidence that she’s sitting on some vast, personal fortune.
She feels more like what she is: a woman from a traditional New England professional family, not a tabloid future-billionaire.
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