Ants Robert Kristian Luuk (born 14 June 1966) is a Swedish comedian and television presenter. He has presented several shows such as ''

Sen kväll med Luuk Sen kväll med Luuk (Late night with Luuk) was one of Sweden's and TV4's most popular talk shows ever and started airing in 1996. Kristian Luuk's show had ratings around 1.5 million viewers every week. Kristian had many celebrity guests like Cher ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was married to

Carina Berg Carina Lilly Berg (previously Luuk; born 11 November 1977) is a Swedish comedian and television presenter. Berg grew up in Åkersberga, studied the aesthetics program at Danderyds gymnasium and then went on to study radio at Kaggeholms folkhögs ...

Biography

Early life

Kristian Luuk's parents come from

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, and the first few years in Sweden the family lived in

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in Stockholm, but in 1970 the family moved to

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. His father worked for IBM, and during three years at the end of the 1970s the family lived in California, USA. Luuk studied at Estniska skolan in Stockholm, and his high school studies took place at Åva gymnasium in

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. He studied business and economics at

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in Stockholm, where he started getting involved in the student- and local radio.

Career

For the larger audience he became known for the radio show ''Hassan'' at Sveriges Radio and ''Knesset'' at ZTV. In 1996 he started working in television at TV4 where he presented his own talk show

. The talk show lasted until 2004. In early 2005, he started presenting ''God natt, Sverige'' along with his then wife

. The show was cancelled after just one season and Luuk left TV4 after that. With the help of Peter Settman Luuk got work at SVT and in late 2007 he presented the show ''Videokväll hos Luuk''. Luuk acted in the film ''Känd från TV'' in 2001 in a supporting role, the film was directed by Fredrik Lindström. He presented

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and Melodifestivalen 2008 on SVT, Sweden's pre-selection for the

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. In 2009, Luuk became the presenter of the popular entertainment show ''

'' (along with Fredrik Lindström), after the previous presenter

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left the show. He presented the reality series Maestro in 2011 for SVT. In 2012 he presented the podradio show ''Luuk & Lokko'' along with his childhood friend

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Personal life

Luuk was married to fellow television presenter

. The couple has one son. Luuk also has two children from previous relationships. On October 7, 2016, it was announced that Luuk and Berg were getting a divorce.

Radio, TV and Film

Radio

*''Hassan'' i P3, 1993 - 1994,

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* '' Sommar i P1'', presenter 26 June 1996 and 18 July 2009 *''Luuk & Lokko'', 2012, Sveriges Radio

Talk shows

*''Knesset'', 1995, ZTV *''

'', 1996 - 2004, TV4 *''God natt, Sverige'', 2005, TV4 *''Videokväll hos Luuk'', 2007 - 2008, SVT

Presenter

*''

'' och ''

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'', SVT * ''

'', 2009–present, SVT *''Maestro'', 2011, SVT *''Veckans ord med Kristian Luuk'', 2021, SVT

Film

*''Känd från TV'', 2001, directed by Fredrik Lindström.

Television

*'' Dips'', 2018–

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Luuk, Kristian 1966 births Living people Comedians from Stockholm Swedish people of Estonian descent Swedish male comedians Stockholm School of Economics alumni Swedish television presenters