Ilona Carson in Houston, Texas) is a reporter and late afternoon anchor for ABC owned-and-operated station KTRK (channel 13) in Houston. Prior to KTRK, Carson was an anchor for Fox-owned KSAZ in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She was born in Houston, but grew up in Washington, New Mexico, and Australia most of her life.
On February 9, 2006 she had a brief cameo on the U.S. soap-opera All My Children.
She won an Emmy award for reporting in China, and has also covered stories in Germany, Brazil, Italy, and England.