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Anna Karin Margareta Falck (; born 6 February 1932) is a Swedish
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, hostess and producer.


Career

Falck was born in Säffle,
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and lived her first six years of life in
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. She moved with her mother and younger brother to Stockholm when she was 6 years old since her father died. In her youth, she dreamed of playing ice hockey. When Falck started on TV, she had studied theater history and English at
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, where she wrote an essay on children's theater. She then became an assistant to Elsa Olenius who started Barnteatern (now Vår Teater). Falck began her TV career in 1954 as a scriptwriter in Alf Sjöberg's TV set of ''
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''. Curiosity about the television medium made her apply for Radiotjänst's first producer course in 1955. The supervisors came from the
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in
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. Other female TV pioneers on the course were Ingrid Samuelsson, Marianne Anderberg, Lena Fürst and Barbro Svinhufvud. Falck's work spans a large part of the history of Swedish television. She was employed at SVT, then known as
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, already in 1956 and has produced and directed many entertainment programs over the years, as well as light drama, theatre and cabaret shows. In 1975, she hosted the
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in
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. In 2007, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual
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, the Swedish television awards. In 2020, she was made a member of the
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Hall of Fame.


See also

* List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters *
List of Melodifestivalen presenters This list includes those who have acted as presenters of Melodifestivalen. In 1986, there were two presenters for the first time, with three and four presenter line-ups later introduced in Melodifestivalen 2004, 2004 (as two sets) and Melodifesti ...


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* 1932 births Living people Swedish television personalities Swedish women television presenters Swedish television producers Swedish women television producers Swedish television directors Women television directors People from Säffle Municipality {{Europe-tv-bio-stub