Name
Fredrik Skavlan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1966-09-02 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Oslo, Norway
Biography
Fredrik Skavlan (born 2 September 1966) is a Norwegian journalist, cartoonist and TV personality. From 1998 to 2007 he hosted Norway's most popular talk show Først & sist (First & Last), which attracted more than one million viewers every Friday evening. He won the 1999 Norwegian Television Award for best host. After taking a break from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK he was persuaded to host his own show for Sweden's SVT in the spring of 2009, Skavlan. Skavlan won the Swedish Television Award for Best Television Host, the first Norwegian to do so. In the autumn of 2009 the program started broadcasting on both NRK and SVT. Since autumn 2013 the show is also broadcast on the Danish secondary channel DR2. Danish criticism has been absent so far. Skavlan originally worked as a journalist and cartoonist for several Norwegian newspapers, including Morgenbladet and Dagbladet. He has also illustrated several books, including Unni Lindell's children's book Nifse Nella og nattskolen (Spooky Stella and the Night School) (2008).
Known For
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- 2021 The Trip as Talkshow Host
- 2018 Alexander Rybak - Hello Europe as Self
- 2018 The Quake as Skavlan
- 2012 Once Upon a Time in Phuket
- 2002 Music for Weddings and Funerals as Journalist
- 2018 The Quake as Himself
- 2017 Lust as Talkshow-host (voice)
- 2019 438 Days as Skavlan
- 2026 The Hunt for the Next Lamine Yamal as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 Solsidan ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Imperiet Bianca ( 1 episode ) as Himself
- 2009 Skavlan ( 297 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2010 Hellenius Hörna ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2002 Torsdagsklubben ( 1 episode )
- 2009 Trygdekontoret talkshow ( 1 episode )
- 2000 To Trøtte Typer ( 4 episodes ) as Self (voice)
- 2024 Dette er humor ( 7 episodes )
- 2025 Skavlan & Sverige ( 20 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2022 BIANCA ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2001 Slå på ring ( 7 episodes )
- 2011 I kveld med Ylvis ( 1 episode ) as Self
