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Biography |
Virginie Efira (born May 5, 1977 in Brussels) is a Belgian
anchor and actress on the French Television.
She was first hired by Club RTL (A Belgian TV channel in the
RTL Group) to present a children's show called Mégamix. She
went on to present other programmes in Belgium, including A
la recherche de la nouvelle Star. In September 2002 she was
offered the job of the presenter of Belgian's version of
Star Academy. After casting to be a weather girl on France's
M6 channel, she was soon pushed into the limelight as one of
M6's main public faces, presenting shows such as Le Grand
Zap, La saga des ..., Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le
Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes. She was the host of Classé
Confidentiel for one year, before replacing Benjamin
Castaldi as the host of the popular musical reality show
Nouvelle Star for the end of the show's fourth series. She
also present various shows on RTL-TVi (a spin-off channel in
the RTL Group). Efira was a guest star on the highly
successful French show Kaamelott.
Elira's film career took off in 2004, appearing as Liz
Wilson in the French-language version of Garfield: The
Movie, as well as playing Piper in the French version of the
2005 film Robots. |
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since October 18, 2007