Francesca Vanthielen

Francesca Vanthielen

CountryBelgium Belgium
GenderFemale
BirthdayDec 24, 1973
BiographyFrancesca Vanthielen (born 24 December 1972 in Eeklo) is a Belgian television actress and host, radio presenter, and economist. She is probably best known internationally for playing the lead role in the Svalbard-set adventure film When the Light Comes (1998) and for hosting Sterren op de dansvloer (Dancing with the Stars) between 2005 and 2008. She has worked as a host on Radio TAM TAM (BRT), Q-music and Studio Brussel.

Her childhood and adolescent years were spent in Zonhoven and she currently resides in Antwerp. Her father is an economist in Diepenbeek and her mother is a social worker in Geel. Vanthielen holds a degree in Applied Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and has a Post Graduate in Acting from the Mountview Theatre School in London. In 2009 she obtained a master's degree in comparative and international politics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Aspe
Ended

Aspe

as Hannelore Martens
De Gouden Schoen
Ended

De Gouden Schoen

as Francesca Vanthielen
Sterren Op De Dansvloer
Ended

Sterren Op De Dansvloer

as Co-Host

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