Nadia Hasnaoui
Nadia Hasnaoui (born June 10, 1963 in Morocco ) is a Norwegian television presenter.
biography
Nadia Hasnaoui was born in Morocco in 1963, the only child to a Norwegian mother and a Moroccan father. Her grandfather is the Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize winner Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973). After her parents divorced, she moved to Norway with her mother at the age of 4 and was no longer in contact with her father. She attended a French-speaking kindergarten and a French-speaking school up to fourth grade before taking language courses in Norwegian. At the age of 18, Hasnaoui received Norwegian citizenship.
Although Hasnaoui had no professional training, she worked as a dancer in the 1980s. She appeared in the musical Annie Get Your Gun at the Bergen Theater Den Nationale Scene at the age of 21 . She also worked as a French translator for the police.
Hasnaoui has been a presenter for Norwegian television since the early 1990s. She began her career in 1991 with the presentation of the children's program Myggen on the state broadcaster NRK . In 1993 she moved to the Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV 2 . There she moderated numerous successful television formats, including the breakfast television program God morgen, Norge and the advice program Jakten på det gode liv (1999) for which she traveled around the world. In 2001 she interviewed the Norwegian King Harald VI on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the throne . From 2003 she received her own talk show Hasnaoui , in which she welcomed well-known guests such as the Swedish writer Henning Mankell or the Norwegian ice hockey player Espen Knutsen for a casual conversation on Saturday evenings . After the format was discontinued in favor of a revealing American reality show due to low ratings , Hasnaoui switched back to NRK.
Hasnaoui has been hosting the popular quiz show Kvitt eller dobbelt on NRK since 2006 . In 2007, together with Claus Wiese, he moderated the Topp 10 format , in which the Norwegian people chose favorites in ten different categories. In 2010, after a public vote, Hasnaoui was chosen as the third presenter alongside Erik Solbakken and Haddy N'jie to host the 55th Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo . There she was responsible, among other things, for moderating the scoring. Before that, Hasnaoui co-hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Lillehammer in 2004. In 2011 she read the Norwegian scoring for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf , a year later the points for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku .
Hasnaoui studied mathematics and computer science in parallel to her television career. She publicly criticized the trend towards reality shows like Big Brother .
Nadia Hasnaoui has been married to Norwegian actor Kim Haugen , four years her senior, since 1991 , whom she met in 1985 while working on Annie Get Your Gun, and lives with him in Ullevål Hageby , near Oslo. She is the mother of three children. Their first-born daughter died of a strep infection. She has published several books, including a 2003 family cookbook. In addition to Norwegian, she speaks fluent French and English.
Web links
- Biography in Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d cf. Graff, Finn: Fortsatt glimt i øyet at dagbladet.no, February 9, 2004 (accessed on May 29, 2010)
- ↑ a b cf. Nadia Hasnaoui: Jegeren etter det gode liv ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at coop.no (accessed on May 29, 2010)
- ↑ cf. Portrait at eurovision.tv (English; accessed on May 29, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasnaoui, Nadia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morocco |