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'''Nour El-Refai''' (born 14 November 1987) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] actress and comedian.<ref name="sverigesradio1">{{cite web|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5702667 |title=Jansson och El-Refai leder schlagern - Kulturnytt |publisher=Sveriges Radio |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref> She became known for her participation in the candid-camera show ''Raj Raj'' in 2007 and hosted [[Melodifestivalen 2014]]. El-Refai has also appeared in several movies such as ''[[Kronjuvelerna]]'' and ''Johan Falk: Spelets regler''.
'''Nour El Refai''' (born 14 November 1987) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] actress and comedian.<ref name="sverigesradio1">{{cite website |url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5702667 |title=Jansson och El Refai leder schlagern - Kulturnytt |publisher=Sveriges Radio |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214125/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5702667 |url-status=live}}</ref> She became known for her participation in the candid-camera show ''Raj Raj'' in 2007 and hosted [[Melodifestivalen 2014]]. El Refai has also appeared in several movies such as ''[[Kronjuvelerna]]'' and ''Johan Falk: Spelets regler''.


==Early life==
==Early life==
El-Refai was born in Lebanon and her family moved to Sweden to live in [[Eslöv]] just a few months after her birth. She is of Syrian and Lebanese heritage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/malmofestivalen/article358922/Nour-el-Refai-saknar-Faladen.html |title=Nour el-Refai saknar Fäladen - Malmö - Sydsvenskan-Nyheter Dygnet Runt |work=Sydsvenskan |date=2008-11-10 |accessdate=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513022638/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/malmofestivalen/article358922/Nour-el-Refai-saknar-Faladen.html |archivedate=13 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Her family moved a few years later to [[Norra Fäladen]] in [[Lund]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.dn.se/livsstil/civilkurage-var-betydligt-viktigare-an-en-bra-lon/ |title=Civilkurage var betydligt viktigare än en bra lön |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=2011-08-07 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
El Refai was born in Tripoli, Lebanon and her family moved to Sweden to live in [[Eslöv]] just a few months after her birth. She is of Syrian and Lebanese heritage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/malmofestivalen/article358922/Nour-el-Refai-saknar-Faladen.html |title=Nour el-Refai saknar Fäladen - Malmö - Sydsvenskan-Nyheter Dygnet Runt |work=Sydsvenskan |date=2008-11-10 |access-date=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513022638/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/malmofestivalen/article358922/Nour-el-Refai-saknar-Faladen.html |archive-date=13 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Her family moved a few years later to [[Norra Fäladen]] in [[Lund]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.dn.se/livsstil/civilkurage-var-betydligt-viktigare-an-en-bra-lon/ |title=Civilkurage var betydligt viktigare än en bra lön |work=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |date=2011-08-07 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=27 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927064322/http://www.dn.se/livsstil/civilkurage-var-betydligt-viktigare-an-en-bra-lon/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
She grew up in a single parent family with her mother, as her father left after a divorce just weeks after the arrival of the El-Refai family in Sweden.<ref name="expressen1">{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/nour-el-refai-om-uppvaxten-utan-pappa/ |title=Nour El-Refai om uppväxten utan pappa |work=Expressen |date=2013-10-09 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref> Nour has had no contact with her father since.<ref name="expressen1"/>
She grew up in a single parent family with her mother, as her father left after a divorce just weeks after the arrival of the El Refai family in Sweden.<ref name="expressen1">{{cite web |url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/nour-el-refai-om-uppvaxten-utan-pappa/ |title=Nour El Refai om uppväxten utan pappa |work=Expressen |date=2013-10-09 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=17 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317233644/https://www.expressen.se/noje/nour-el-refai-om-uppvaxten-utan-pappa/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Nour has had no contact with her father since.<ref name="expressen1"/>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
El-Refai lives in [[Traneberg]], [[Stockholm]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
El Refai lives in [[Traneberg, Stockholm]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/>


El-Refai was the victim of a [[sexual assault]] just before the start of her television career. The man who assaulted her was later sentenced to four months imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article11590036.ab |title='Jag låg helt paralyserad' – Nour talar ut om sexövergreppet – och den förnedrande rättegången |work=Aftonbladet |date=2008-12-11 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
El Refai was the victim of a [[sexual assault]] just before the start of her television career. The man who assaulted her was later sentenced to four months imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article11590036.ab |title='Jag låg helt paralyserad' – Nour talar ut om sexövergreppet – och den förnedrande rättegången |work=Aftonbladet |date=2008-12-11 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013929/http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article11590036.ab |url-status=live }}</ref>


El-Refai suffers from [[dysthymia]], a chronic form of [[depression (mood)|depression]]. She has talked about her condition in two works: in her stand-up show ''En komisk depression'' ("''A comical depression''") in 2016–2017 and later in her late-2019 self-scripted and self-led four-part two-hour mini-documentary series "Livet lyckopiller" ("The happiness-pill life") which aired on [[Sveriges Television]], Sweden's national public television channel, in November–December 2019. In the mini-documentary she talks about her depression and showcases her attempts to get help and improve it, meets other Swedes with depression, and seeks and tells statistics and scientific facts about depression, mainly in Sweden.
El Refai has [[dysthymia]], a chronic form of [[depression (mood)|depression]]. She has talked about her condition in two works: in her stand-up show ''En komisk depression'' ("''A comical depression''") in 2016–2017 and later in her late-2019 self-scripted and self-led four-part two-hour mini-documentary series "Livet lyckopiller" ("The happiness-pill life") which aired on [[Sveriges Television]], Sweden's national public television channel, in November–December 2019. In the mini-documentary she talks about her depression and showcases her attempts to get help and improve it, meets other Swedes with depression, and seeks and tells statistics and scientific facts about depression, mainly in Sweden.


==Career==
==Career==
El-Refai first came into prominence in 2006, when she had a role in the crime drama movie ''[[Beck – Det tysta skriket]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmlance.se/produktioner/beck-det-tysta-skriket |title=Beck- Det tysta skriket |publisher=filmlance.se |date=2009-03-15 |accessdate=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811125559/http://www.filmlance.se/produktioner/beck-det-tysta-skriket |archivedate=11 August 2010 }}</ref>
El Refai first came into prominence in 2006, when she had a role in the crime drama movie ''[[Beck – Det tysta skriket]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmlance.se/produktioner/beck-det-tysta-skriket |title=Beck- Det tysta skriket |publisher=filmlance.se |date=2009-03-15 |access-date=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811125559/http://www.filmlance.se/produktioner/beck-det-tysta-skriket |archive-date=11 August 2010 }}</ref>


Along with [[Cecilia Forss]] she hosted the candid-camera show, ''Raj Raj'', which was broadcast on [[TV400]] during 2007.<ref name="aftonbladet1">{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article11282383.ab |title=TV-stjärna blottade sig – i park |work=Aftonbladet |date=2007-10-27 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref> In one notorious segment, she flashed her breasts to a man in [[Humlegården]], which is famed for male flashers, and she was reported to the police.<ref name="aftonbladet1"/> Charges were pressed and later she was sentenced to pay a fine for [[indecent exposure]].<ref name="aftonbladet1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article1513022.ab |title=TV4-stjärna dömd för blottning |work=Aftonbladet |date=2007-12-22 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref> El-Refai and Forss had cooperated previously in the [[TV3 (Sweden)|TV3]] humour show ''Hus i helvete''.<ref name="sverigesradio1"/>
Along with [[Cecilia Forss]] she hosted the candid-camera show, ''Raj Raj'', which was broadcast on [[TV400]] during 2007.<ref name="aftonbladet1">{{cite web |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article11282383.ab |title=TV-stjärna blottade sig – i park |work=Aftonbladet |date=2007-10-27 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203031334/http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article11282383.ab |url-status=live }}</ref> In one notorious segment, she flashed her breasts to a man in [[Humlegården]], which is famed for male flashers, and she was reported to the police.<ref name="aftonbladet1"/> Charges were pressed and later she was sentenced to pay a fine for [[indecent exposure]].<ref name="aftonbladet1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article1513022.ab |title=TV4-stjärna dömd för blottning |work=Aftonbladet |date=2007-12-22 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011447/http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article1513022.ab |url-status=live }}</ref> El Refai and Forss had cooperated previously in the [[TV3 (Sweden)|TV3]] humour show ''Hus i helvete''.<ref name="sverigesradio1"/>


In 2008, El-Refai was assigned as a reporter on stage for the ''[[Melodifestivalen 2008]]''; the Swedish national selection for the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2008|Eurovision Song Contest]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> She interviewed the singers after they went off stage following their performances.<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> During the same year, she acted in the ''Morgonsoffan'' television show also on [[SVT]]. She acted in the [[Henrik Schyffert]] comedy show ''Sverige Pussas och Kramas'' on [[Kanal5]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/>
In 2008, El Refai was assigned as a reporter on stage for the ''[[Melodifestivalen 2008]]''; the Swedish national selection for the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2008|Eurovision Song Contest]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> She interviewed the singers after they went off stage following their performances.<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> During the same year, she acted in the ''Morgonsoffan'' television show also on [[Sveriges Television|SVT]]. She acted in the [[Henrik Schyffert]] comedy show ''Sverige Pussas och Kramas'' on [[Kanal5]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/>


Nour has also been a radio talk show host on ''Morgonpasset'' at [[Sveriges Radio P3]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> During 2009, El-Refai acted as the character "Bitterfittan" (English: "The bitter cunt") on the comedy show, ''Ballar av stål'', the Swedish version of ''[[Balls of Steel (TV series)|Balls of Steel]]''. She also took part in ''[[Wipeout (2008 U.S. game show)|Wipeout]]'' as a contestant; both shows were broadcast on the Swedish [[Kanal 5 (Sweden)|Kanal 5]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/tar-pa-hogvaktens-kon-i-ballar-av-stal/ |title=Tar på högvaktens kön i "Ballar av stål" |work=Expressen |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
Nour has also been a radio talk show host on ''Morgonpasset'' at [[Sveriges Radio P3]].<ref name="sverigesradio1"/> During 2009, El Refai acted as the character "Bitterfittan" (English: "The bitter cunt") on the comedy show, ''Ballar av stål'', the Swedish version of ''[[Balls of Steel (TV series)|Balls of Steel]]''. She also took part in ''[[Wipeout (2008 U.S. game show)|Wipeout]]'' as a contestant; both shows were broadcast on the Swedish [[Kanal 5 (Sweden)|Kanal 5]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/tar-pa-hogvaktens-kon-i-ballar-av-stal/ |title=Tar på högvaktens kön i "Ballar av stål" |work=Expressen |date=23 March 2009 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=17 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317233634/https://www.expressen.se/noje/tar-pa-hogvaktens-kon-i-ballar-av-stal/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


In 2011, she appeared in the movie ''[[Kronjuvelerna]]'', and in 2012 had a role in another movie, ''Johan Falk: Spelets regler''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdkritik.se/recension.php?id=2938 |title="Sagolikt men otäckt" - recension av Kronjuvelerna |publisher=Dvdkritik.Se |date=2011-11-28 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
In 2011, she appeared in the movie ''[[Kronjuvelerna]]'', and in 2012 had a role in another movie, ''Johan Falk: Spelets regler''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdkritik.se/recension.php?id=2938 |title="Sagolikt men otäckt" - recension av Kronjuvelerna |publisher=Dvdkritik.Se |date=2011-11-28 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=23 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823210654/http://dvdkritik.se/recension.php?id=2938 |url-status=live }}</ref>


During late 2009 she was one of the characters on the comedy show ''Cirkus Möller'' on [[TV4 (Sweden)|TV4]]. During 2010, she was on stage with a Swedish production of ''[[Grease (musical)|Grease]]'' at [[Göta Lejon]] in Stockholm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://roaproduktion.se/nyheter/bast-pa-scen-ar-nour-el-refai-som-den-korkade-skanskan-jill/ |title=Bäst på scen är Nour El-Refai, som den korkade skånskan Jill |publisher=Roaproduktion.se |date=2010-02-05 |accessdate=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203161344/http://roaproduktion.se/nyheter/bast-pa-scen-ar-nour-el-refai-som-den-korkade-skanskan-jill/ |archivedate=3 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="sverigesradio2">{{cite web|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2151&artikel=3640992 |title=Nour behöver inte kvalificera sig som fin flicka - P4 Extra |publisher=Sveriges Radio |date=2010-04-21 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref> In late 2010, she worked again as a radio talk show host, and was part of the show's special, where stars including El-Refai were locked inside a glass house for a whole week to raise money for [[Musikhjälpen]] on [[Sveriges Radio]].<ref name="sverigesradio2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3946&grupp=12952&artikel=4174439 |title=Nour El-Refai - Musikhjälpen 2013 |publisher=Sveriges Radio |date=2010-11-12 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
During late 2009 she was one of the characters on the comedy show ''Cirkus Möller'' on [[TV4 (Sweden)|TV4]]. During 2010, she was on stage with a Swedish production of ''[[Grease (musical)|Grease]]'' at [[Göta Lejon]] in Stockholm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://roaproduktion.se/nyheter/bast-pa-scen-ar-nour-el-refai-som-den-korkade-skanskan-jill/ |title=Bäst på scen är Nour El Refai, som den korkade skånskan Jill |publisher=Roaproduktion.se |date=2010-02-05 |access-date=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203161344/http://roaproduktion.se/nyheter/bast-pa-scen-ar-nour-el-refai-som-den-korkade-skanskan-jill/ |archive-date=3 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="sverigesradio2">{{cite news |url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2151&artikel=3640992 |title=Nour behöver inte kvalificera sig som fin flicka - P4 Extra |newspaper=Sveriges Radio |date=2010-04-21 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221311/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2151&artikel=3640992 |url-status=live }}</ref> In late 2010, she worked again as a radio talk show host, and was part of the show's special, where stars including El Refai were locked inside a glass house for a whole week to raise money for [[Musikhjälpen]] on [[Sveriges Radio]].<ref name="sverigesradio2"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3946&grupp=12952&artikel=4174439 |title=Nour El-Refai - Musikhjälpen 2013 |publisher=Sveriges Radio |date=2010-11-12 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=21 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021060521/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3946&grupp=12952&artikel=4174439 |url-status=dead}}</ref>


El-Refai hosted ''[[Melodifestivalen 2014]]'', along with [[Anders Jansson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/nour-el-refai-och-anders-jansson-programledare-for-melodifestivalen-2014 |title=Nour El Refai och Anders Jansson programledare för Melodifestivalen 2014 |publisher=SVT.se |date=2013-11-13 |accessdate=2013-11-18}}</ref>
El Refai hosted ''[[Melodifestivalen 2014]]'', along with [[Anders Jansson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/nour-el-refai-och-anders-jansson-programledare-for-melodifestivalen-2014 |title=Nour El Refai och Anders Jansson programledare för Melodifestivalen 2014 |publisher=SVT.se |date=2013-11-13 |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=16 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116193434/http://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/nour-el-refai-och-anders-jansson-programledare-for-melodifestivalen-2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Since 2021, she has been participating in [[Masked Singer Sverige]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vk.se/2020-10-07/el-refai-och-wahlgren-panel-i-tv4-satsningen|title=El Refai och Wahlgren panel i TV4-satsningen|date= 7 October 2020|website=vk.se|accessdate=9 March 2024}} </ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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*2014 - ''Sköterskan: The Nurse'' as The Nurse (short film)
*2014 - ''Sköterskan: The Nurse'' as The Nurse (short film)
*2014 - ''[[Melodifestivalen 2014]]'' (TV series)
*2014 - ''[[Melodifestivalen 2014]]'' (TV series)
*2018 - ''[[Bonus Family]]'' (TV series)
*2023 - ''[[Trolltider – legenden om Bergatrollet|Trolltider – legenden om bergatrollet]]'' as Mara (TV series)
*2024 - ''[[Bäst i test]]'' (TV series)


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People with mood disorders]]
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[[Category:Swedish women comedians]]
[[Category:Swedish television hosts]]
[[Category:Swedish television hosts]]
[[Category:Melodifestivalen presenters]]
[[Category:Swedish people of Lebanese descent]]
[[Category:Swedish people of Lebanese descent]]
[[Category:Swedish people of Syrian descent]]
[[Category:Swedish women television presenters]]
[[Category:Women television presenters]]
[[Category:21st-century Swedish comedians]]
[[Category:Actresses from Lund]]
[[Category:People from Tripoli, Lebanon]]

Latest revision as of 13:41, 5 October 2024

Nour El-Refai
El-Refai in 2014
Born14 November 1987 (1987-11-14) (age 37)
Tripoli, Lebanon
Occupation(s)Television presenter, comedian, actress
PartnerHenrik Schyffert
Children1

Nour El Refai (born 14 November 1987) is a Swedish actress and comedian.[1] She became known for her participation in the candid-camera show Raj Raj in 2007 and hosted Melodifestivalen 2014. El Refai has also appeared in several movies such as Kronjuvelerna and Johan Falk: Spelets regler.

Early life

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El Refai was born in Tripoli, Lebanon and her family moved to Sweden to live in Eslöv just a few months after her birth. She is of Syrian and Lebanese heritage.[2] Her family moved a few years later to Norra Fäladen in Lund.[3] She grew up in a single parent family with her mother, as her father left after a divorce just weeks after the arrival of the El Refai family in Sweden.[4] Nour has had no contact with her father since.[4]

Personal life

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El Refai lives in Traneberg, Stockholm.[3]

El Refai was the victim of a sexual assault just before the start of her television career. The man who assaulted her was later sentenced to four months imprisonment.[5]

El Refai has dysthymia, a chronic form of depression. She has talked about her condition in two works: in her stand-up show En komisk depression ("A comical depression") in 2016–2017 and later in her late-2019 self-scripted and self-led four-part two-hour mini-documentary series "Livet lyckopiller" ("The happiness-pill life") which aired on Sveriges Television, Sweden's national public television channel, in November–December 2019. In the mini-documentary she talks about her depression and showcases her attempts to get help and improve it, meets other Swedes with depression, and seeks and tells statistics and scientific facts about depression, mainly in Sweden.

Career

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El Refai first came into prominence in 2006, when she had a role in the crime drama movie Beck – Det tysta skriket.[6]

Along with Cecilia Forss she hosted the candid-camera show, Raj Raj, which was broadcast on TV400 during 2007.[7] In one notorious segment, she flashed her breasts to a man in Humlegården, which is famed for male flashers, and she was reported to the police.[7] Charges were pressed and later she was sentenced to pay a fine for indecent exposure.[7][8] El Refai and Forss had cooperated previously in the TV3 humour show Hus i helvete.[1]

In 2008, El Refai was assigned as a reporter on stage for the Melodifestivalen 2008; the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.[1] She interviewed the singers after they went off stage following their performances.[1] During the same year, she acted in the Morgonsoffan television show also on SVT. She acted in the Henrik Schyffert comedy show Sverige Pussas och Kramas on Kanal5.[1]

Nour has also been a radio talk show host on Morgonpasset at Sveriges Radio P3.[1] During 2009, El Refai acted as the character "Bitterfittan" (English: "The bitter cunt") on the comedy show, Ballar av stål, the Swedish version of Balls of Steel. She also took part in Wipeout as a contestant; both shows were broadcast on the Swedish Kanal 5.[9]

In 2011, she appeared in the movie Kronjuvelerna, and in 2012 had a role in another movie, Johan Falk: Spelets regler.[10]

During late 2009 she was one of the characters on the comedy show Cirkus Möller on TV4. During 2010, she was on stage with a Swedish production of Grease at Göta Lejon in Stockholm.[11][12] In late 2010, she worked again as a radio talk show host, and was part of the show's special, where stars including El Refai were locked inside a glass house for a whole week to raise money for Musikhjälpen on Sveriges Radio.[12][13]

El Refai hosted Melodifestivalen 2014, along with Anders Jansson.[14]

Since 2021, she has been participating in Masked Singer Sverige.[15]

Filmography

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  • 2004 - Generation Y
  • 2005 - Vem är du?—as Åsa (feature film)
  • 2006 - Beck – Det tysta skriket (TV film)
  • 2006 - Elvismackan (short film)
  • 2006 - Frostbiten—as Cornelia (feature film)
  • 2006 - När mörkret faller (feature film)
  • 2009-2010: Ballar av stål as Bitterfittan (TV series - 10 episodes)
  • 2010 - Välkommen åter (TV series)
  • 2010 - Wallander – Dödsängeln (feature film)
  • 2011 - Kronjuvelerna (feature film)
  • 2011 - Stockholm - Båstad (TV mini-series, 1 episode as Sharon)
  • 2012 - Johan Falk: Spelets regler as Lovisa (feature film to video)
  • 2012 - Labyrint (TV series)
  • 2014 - Sköterskan: The Nurse as The Nurse (short film)
  • 2014 - Melodifestivalen 2014 (TV series)
  • 2018 - Bonus Family (TV series)
  • 2023 - Trolltider – legenden om bergatrollet as Mara (TV series)
  • 2024 - Bäst i test (TV series)

References

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