Stephanie McMahon

Her great-grandfather, Jess McMahon, was born to Irish parents who had emigrated from Galway to New York City during the 1870s.

Soon after McMahon's birth, her family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where she attended Greenwich Country Day School through her elementary years.

She started working for World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the age of 13 as a model for merchandise catalogs.

Stephanie Marie McMahon Levesque (born September 24, 1976) is an American businesswoman and retired professional wrestler.

Stephanie Marie McMahon was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 24, 1976, to professional wrestling promoters Vince and Linda McMahon.

She has an older brother, Shane.

McMahon and her family are Irish American, and she has expressed pride of her Irish heritage.

After graduating from Greenwich High School in 1994, McMahon attended Boston University.

She is known for her various roles within WWE between 1998 and 2023.

The daughter of Vince and Linda McMahon, she is a fourth-generation wrestling promoter as a member of the McMahon family.

She began working for WWE at age 13, modeling merchandise for various catalogs.

She graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in communications.

She became a full-time employee at the WWF post-graduation.

McMahon entered the World Wrestling Federation (WWF/E) as a model for the WWF's sales and merchandise department, but started her WWF business career as an Account Executive for the WWF offices in New York.

In her early years with the company, she did reception work, creative design, television production, and acted as a ring performer.

McMahon began appearing regularly on-air for WWE (then WWF as the World Wrestling Federation) in 1999 as a part of a storyline with The Undertaker.

After a brief on-screen relationship with Test, McMahon was engaged to Triple H — whom she married both on-screen and later in real life – which resulted in the McMahon-Helmsley faction storyline.

She has held the WWF Women's Championship once.

In November 2000, McMahon became head writer of the company, replacing Chris Kreski.

In 2001, she was the on-screen owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling during The Invasion.

The following year, she was the general manager of SmackDown, but stopped appearing regularly on television after an "I Quit" match with her father.

After spending time as the director of creative writing, a job she had by 2002, she was promoted to Senior Vice President of Creative Writing in 2006.

During a WWE live event in Dublin in 2004, she revealed that her family originally came from County Clare.

In 2006, she was promoted to senior vice president of creative writing.

A year later, she became the executive vice president of creative.

McMahon was promoted to executive vice president of Creative in 2007.

She was responsible for overseeing the creative process (storylines) for all television and pay-per-view programming.

She oversaw all aspects of talent management and branding, live event booking and marketing, and all social and digital media properties.

As executive vice-president of Creative, McMahon was able to spearhead the upbringing of the WWE app, which has been downloaded over 20 million times.

She was also able to launch a huge partnership with the USO metropolitan Washington, the social media company Tout, and was able to partner with Yahoo to bring WWE content.

Stephanie also led WWE's Creative coalition for their Anti Bullying Campaigns.

After making only sporadic appearances for several years, McMahon began appearing regularly on Raw in 2008 as their general manager before disappearing once again.

She returned to regular on-air appearances in 2013, this time under the gimmick of an unctuous, judgmental, bullying owner along with on-screen chief operating officer Triple H. They became a power couple and formed the stable The Authority, making what were often shady decrees while claiming only to be concerned for "what's best for business," all the while romanticizing each other in the process with public displays of affection.

From 2013 to 2022, McMahon served as the company's chief brand officer.

In July 2022, McMahon was named the chairwoman and co-CEO of WWE, alongside Nick Khan, following her father's retirement.

She then resigned from WWE in January 2023 following her father's return to the company.

On December 4, 2013, WWE announced the promotion of McMahon to chief brand officer, where she will lead efforts to further enhance WWE's brand reputation among key constituents including advertisers, media, business partners, and investors.

She will also serve as the lead ambassador of WWE and work with business units to support key growth initiatives.

McMahon wrestled her final in-ring match at WrestleMania 34 in April 2018, after which she continued to focus on executive roles within the company.

McMahon's business career began as an account executive for the WWF offices in New York, before becoming the company's head writer and director of creative writing.