Johar Bendjelloul

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Johar Bendjelloul
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Johar Bendjelloul at the 2012 Guldbagge Awards
Born (1975-09-01) 1 September 1975 (age 48)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)Television presenter, journalist

Johar Bendjelloul (born 1 September 1975) is a Swedish television presenter and journalist. [1]

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Since 2013, Bendjelloul has been hosting P1 Morgon at Sveriges Radio. [2] Before that he was a television presenter at SVT1 for Gomorron Sverige, Babel, Kulturnyheterna and Aktuellt . [2] [3]

He has also done voice acting doing one of the characters in the children's movie Jack & Pedro. [4]

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.

His brother Malik Bendjelloul was an Academy Award-winning filmmaker for the documentary Searching for Sugar Man. [1] [5] Malik committed suicide on 13 May 2014 after struggling with depression, as Johar reported to the media. [6] [7]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Johar Bendjelloul (19 September 2012). "Johar Bendjelloul ny programledare för P1 Morgon – Pressinformation". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
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