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Fredrik Skavlan is known for:

  • 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.
  • 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.

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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).