Francesca Vanthielen
Francesca Vanthielen 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 and for hosting Sterren op de dansvloer between 2005 and 2008. She has worked as a host on Radio TAM TAM, 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.
Filmography
- Bingo
- Boys as Dana
- When the Light Comes as Ellen
- Spoed
- Wittekerke as Phaedra Govaerts
- Aspe as Hannelore Martens
- Baantjer as Eva de Long
- Skating with Celebrities as host
- Dancing with the Stars as host
- Sterren op het IJs as host
- De Italiaanse Droom
- LouisLouise
- De Andalusische droom as host
- Gelukkig getrouwd? as host
- My Name Is as host
- Domino, de zoektocht as host
- Cijfers Liegen Niet as host