Fredrik Skavlan Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Fredrik Skavlan
Acting
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).
Filmography Movies
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The Trip
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.
Alexander Rybak - Hello Europe
Alexander Rybak is one of Eurovision Song Contest’s biggest stars, and excitement runs high as he returns to the world’s greatest music competition. We take a look at his impressive career, and follow his preparations for Eurovision in Lisbon.
The Quake
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
Once Upon a Time in Phuket
Life coach Sven travels to Thailand to fulfil his dreams as a writer. He meets Gitte a yoga-practising free spirit from Norway. Then along comes Anja, an editor who works for a Swedish publisher. What does he really want to do with his life, and who does he want to do it with?
Music for Weddings and Funerals
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
The Quake
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
Lust
A famous crime writer becomes a victim after a crazed fan brutally attacks her. She isolates herself in her apartment, trying to cope and get on with her life, but starts to experience increasingly strange events. It doesn’t take long before she is convinced that her attacker is back and stalking her.
438 Days
On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.
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