Alexandra Pascalidou

Alexandra Pascalidou
Alexandra Pascalidou in 2011
Born	(1970-07-17) July 17, 1970 (age 46) Bucharest, Romania
Occupation	columnist, television hostess and author

Alexandra Pascalidou (Greek: Αλεξάνδρα Πασχαλίδου; born July 17, 1970, Bucharest, Romania) is a Greek-Swedish columnist, television hostess, and author. She is also a frequent lecturer, discussion leader, and human rights activist.

Pascalidou became known to the public in 1995 when she started hosting the multicultural television show Mosaik on SVT, one of Sweden's public service channels.

In 2000–01 she hosted Som sagt on SVT, a Saturday night program with a focus on literature and language topics. At the same time, she was the producer and reporter for the television show Striptease that focused on investigative journalism.

In 2004 Pascalidou hosted the Olympics in Athens for SVT, following which she lived in Greece for two years, hosting various television shows including, for example, Friday night entertainment on ERT covering a day spent with such well-known personalities as Roberto Cavalli, Isabel Allende, and Roger Moore, among others. She also hosted a three-hour live Greek morning television program every day. She was the hostess for the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in 2005, and a commentator in Kiev the year when Greece won the competition for the first time. In the same year Pascalidou hosted Melodifestivalen in Sweden from Gothenburg.

In January 2007 she became one of five hostesses of Sweden's TV4's Förkväll, a daytime lifestyle program.