Petra Mede

Early life

Petra Maria Mede was born in Stockholm to Ulla Elisabet (; born 1940) and entrepreneur (born 1939), and raised in Partille, near Gothenburg. She has a younger sister named Anne Mede Ageling. She graduated in Philosophy as well as in the French language.

Career

Mede started off as a dancer at , but her career was cut short by a back injury at the age of 20. She worked as a tourist guide in Stockholm before moving to comedy aged around 35, taking part in a contest for emerging comedians in 2005.

Mede began being seen on television, appearing on **, **, **, Parlamentet and **. She received an award for best emerging actress in 2007. In 2008, she and Anna Maria Granath wrote the parody book Mer självkänsla än du kan hantera (More Self-Esteem than You Can Handle). She participated in the TV shows ** and **.

She appeared in Melodifestivalen 2008 to announce the points from Sundsvall. She hosted Melodifestivalen 2009, where the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was chosen and was voted Sweden's best female comedian the same year. In 2010, she hosted her own program, titled **, on TV3.

Mede has regularly worked for SVT since 2011, hosting **, the broadcaster's Christmas Eve special, in 2013, and the Guldbagge Awards in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

In May 2013, Mede hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, additionally performing an interval act during the final; her hosting was widely acclaimed by critics and journalists around Europe. She was the first solo Eurovision presenter in nearly 20 years, after Mary Kennedy in and the first solo presenter for a contest with semi-finals, only being accompanied by Eric Saade as green room host in the final.

Mede made her film debut in 2014 in **.

In 2015, Mede, along with Graham Norton, hosted the Eurovision's Greatest Hits EBU/BBC 60th anniversary concert show recorded on 31 March at the Eventim Apollo, in Hammersmith, London and was later broadcast in 27 countries.

Mede dubbed Destiny in the Swedish version of the 2016 film Finding Dory. She co-hosted the first heat of Melodifestivalen 2016 with Gina Dirawi at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg. Mede then hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm alongside previous year's winner Måns Zelmerlöw, joining Katie Boyle and Jacqueline Joubert as the only people to have hosted the contest more than once.

Mede played the role of Katja in the 2017 Netflix series Bonus Family and made an appearance in the 2019 documentary film **.

Between 2018 and 2020, Mede hosted reality TV show Stjärnornas stjärna. In 2021 and 2022, she co-hosted Let's Dance alongside David Lindgren. She has since been the presenter of ** on TV4.

Mede hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, with Malin Akerman.

In 2025, she was an interval performer in the final of Melodifestivalen 2025 and later in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (guest appearing in the musical number "Made in Switzerland"). She also co-commentated the Eurovision final for SVT.

Personal life

Mede is a polyglot, speaking Swedish, English, Spanish, Italian and French. Together with her former partner Mattias Günther, she has a daughter born in 2012. However, in 2015, it was confirmed that she and Günther had split. In 2022, she had another child.

Mede resides in Bromma, Stockholm.

Filmography

Television

Film

• Medicinen (2014)

References

References

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