Johar Bendjelloul (born 1 September 1975) is a Swedish television presenter and journalist.
Since 2013, Bendjelloul has been hosting ''P1 Morgon'' at
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is d ...
.
Before that he was a television presenter at
SVT1
SVT1 (SVT Ett; commonly referred to as Ettan) is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.
History
Television in Sweden officially launched on 4 September 1956 with the launch of '' ...
for ''Gomorron Sverige'', ''Babel'', ''Kulturnyheterna'' and ''
Aktuellt
''Aktuellt'' (literally "current; topical" or "actual") is a Swedish nightly news programme produced by Sveriges Television (SVT) and broadcast on its second channel, SVT2 in Sweden.
It was first broadcast on 2 September 1958. With the start of T ...
''.
He has also done voice acting doing one of the characters in the children's movie ''Jack & Pedro''.
Personal life
Johar is the son of Algerian-born physician Hacène Bendjelloul and Swedish translator and painter
Veronica Schildt, making him grandson of actor
Henrik Schildt
Henrik Schildt (10 July 1914 – 15 March 2001) was a Finnish-born Swedish film actor.Goble p.150 He is the father of Johan Schildt, Peter Schildt and Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul.
Selected filmography
* '' Johan Ulfstjerna'' (1936)
* ''Circus ...
.
His brother
Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul (14 September 1977 – 13 May 2014) was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and former child actor.Rohter, Larry (20 July 2012)Retrieved 26 February 2013.[Searching for Sugar Man
''Searching for Sugar Man'' is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig B ...]
.''
Malik committed suicide on 13 May 2014 after struggling with depression, as Johar reported to the media.
References
External links
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Swedish television hosts
1975 births
Living people
Journalists from Stockholm
20th-century Swedish journalists
Swedish people of Algerian descent
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